John Dupont, obsessed with wrestling, in the end a convicted murderer.

Rating: Null/10 (8 March 2015)

This movie is based on a mostly true story of John Dupont's strange involvement in wrestling. What it doesn't cover is that Dupont earned a PhD from Villanova in 1973 and in his 30s and 40s did some valuable scientific work in his field of natural science. Also not covered was his marriage at age 45, lasting only a few months, and in divorce hearings she accused him of pointing a gun at her and tried to push her into a fireplace.
So this movie depicting him as a bright but socially inept man who only had one friend as a child, later finding out his mother paid the boy to be his friend, seems pretty close to the mark.
This movie focuses on the late 1980s when he got Olympic champion brothers Dave and Mark Schultz to come to his wrestling training facility he built at his Foxcatcher residence. Dupont is depicted as a man who bought his involvement in championship wrestling. He seemed to need to impress his elderly mother even though he was already in his 50s. He put on a show, pretending he was the coach, when in fact Dave Schultz was coaching the team.
A really good movie of a very flawed man and his sad ending to what could have been a very nice life. Almost unrecognizable was Steve Carell as John du Pont, plus Channing Tatum as Mark Schultz and Mark Ruffalo, himself a wrestler in high school, as older brother David Schultz.
SPOILERS: Just in case anyone is not aware, in 1996 when Dave Schultz and his family were still living on the Dupont property, Dupont drove up, Dave greeted him, Dupont asked "Do you have a problem with me?", fired several times with a handgun, Dave Schultz died of the wounds, Dupont was convicted and sent to prison where he died in 2010 at the age of 72.