Born and Bred

As he tells the story of a pair of teenage brothers looking to qualify for the Olympic boxing team and an even younger fighter trying to overcome a troubled childhood, Frimmer in essence loses the forest for the trees.

The fights are unexciting and the brothers uncharismatic, yet the film finds a soft, soulful center...

Born and Bred bungles a promising subject with an overreliance on suspiciously on-the-nose, thesis-spouting talking heads.

Although done to death, there's a great subject here, unfortunately buried by its director's indifferent skills and overall poor choices.