Tyson

Assembled from over 30 hours of interviews with the controversial heavyweight champion, director James Toback takes the helm for a feature-length documentary exploring the life and career of self-destructive pugilist Mike Tyson. From his early years under the wing of famed boxing promoter Don King ...more

The undeniably lethal Mike Tyson has long been pinned as a maniacal, misogynistic drug-enthusiast. Taking down his name and reputation with the same pulverizing left-hook he often employs in the ring, the media has squarely pegged him as a monstrous thing to run and hide from. There is no doubt Tyson is intimidating—even he gladly admits to the fear he cultivates—but director James Toback’s new documentary Tyson paints the man behind the headlines as a wounded and surprisingly lucid ex-boxing ...more

Mike Tyson would probably be the first person to tell you -- though he would have a lot of competition for that place in line, and have to at least elbow his way to the front -- that he is not a very nice guy. What seems to be the case, however, as made by the boxer in Tyson -- James Toback's cinematic portrait of the former heavyweight boxing champion -- is that he is the nicest guy that he knows how to be. Given where and how he was raised, and the lack of anyone with decent impulses in his ...more