Release Date: December 9th, 2011
DVD Release Date: February 7th, 2012
R |1 hr 33 min
Plot SummaryTwo feuding Irish families resolve their differences through bare-knuckle boxing.
Director: Ian Palmer
Genres: Documentary
Knuckle (2011)
Two feuding Irish families resolve their differences through bare-knuckle boxing.
Ratings & Reviews
- Mike ScottNew Orleans Times-Picayune
With Knuckle, Palmer offers a thorough -- and extraordinarily compelling -- portrait of the Travellers. show more
- Stephen FarberThe Hollywood Reporter
Palmer keeps his focus tightly on the families, which makes the movie admirably unpretentious but also incomplete. Nevertheless, the picture has a vibrant central character in James McDonagh, the leading fighter in the clan who begins to question the rites of violence. show more
- Scott TobiasNPR
For all their brutality, the fights are so seductive and exciting that their consequences - the physical and mental toll exacted from the men and their families - sometimes fail to register. show more