The Prince of Pennsylvania (2015)

Audience Score
66
The Prince of Pennsylvania
Back in the 1980s the road to the Olympics was long and hard for an amateur wrestler But then along came John du Pont an eccentric heir to the family fortune with a passion for wrestling His 800acre Foxcatcher Farm outside Philadelphia became the hub of the sport with stateoftheart training facilities free accommodations generous stipends and the support of Americas best freestyle wrestlers brothers Mark and Dave Schultz It all seemed too good to be true and tragically it was with a savage ending Featuring fresh testimonials and neverbeforeseen footage The Prince of Pennsylvania is the story of a paradise lost to the madness of its creator a man who had the means to buy anything except for the one thing he truly wanted
DirectorJesse Vile