- Content: “Lesbian Boxer Fights to Regain Control of Her Life”
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What You Need To Know:
CHRISTY is well made and acted, with an acclaimed performance by actress/model Syndey Sweeney. However, the movie has a strong and abhorrent Romantic, politically correct worldview that promotes the female boxer’s homosexual lust. It also demonizes her Catholic mother. Christy rebels against her mother’s Christian, biblical beliefs, and the mother refuses to help Christy with her abusive husband. CHRISTY also has lots of strong foul language, very strong boxing violence, scenes of domestic abuse, a brutal attack, lewd content, and brief cocaine use.
Content:
Strong Romantic, politically correct, pro-homosexual, anti-Christian worldview as characters are ruled by their hearts and emotions, rather than Christian or biblical morals, the title character (a lesbian who’s forced into a loveless marriage with her abusive boxing coach) always sees herself as being in the right and never apologizes for her actions, even when they hurt others, mitigated by an example of hard work), but title character strongly pushes back against her Catholic mother’s Christian and moral beliefs, which are demonized throughout the story;
At least 59 obscenities (including about 31 “f” words), two strong profanities using the names of Jesus, and one GD profanity;
Very strong violence where the main character works her way through life as a boxer, the boxing scenes show big hits and knockouts along with bloodied faces, a character is stabbed several times and shot in the chest, husband repeatedly abuses wife;
Two fully clothed teenage girls lie in a bed and kiss, woman’s abusive husband forces her to perform in sex videos, and one scene shows her in underwear using a sex toy, implied marital sex, other implications of homosexual affairs, and movie informs viewers at the end that the title character married a lesbian girlfriend;
No explicit nudity;
Some social drinking;
Title character and husband use cocaine in two scenes; and,
Strong miscellaneous immorality includes lying, stealing, threatening, taunting, and greed.
More Detail:
Joining a tough-man boxing competition in 1989 just for fun, 21-year-old college basketball player Christy Salters finds herself with the winning check of $300 dollars. A small-time boxing promoter suggests she get into the sport. Though she’s hesitant, the $500 up for grabs if she wins another fight is too great of a draw, and Christy quickly disposes of her opponent. The people at the fight are extremely impressed, especially given her lack of training. Some suggest she take boxing seriously and connects her with a trainer who can make her the real deal.
When she arrives at the gym her promoter suggests, the 46-year-old trainer, Jim Martin, blows her off, but her mother forces her to go back and show him her skill. When she gets in the ring, she knocks out her sparring partner and is taken on for training.
As Christy enters the world of professional boxing, she beats opponent after opponent and proves she has what it takes to be the best. Sadly for Christy, women’s boxing is not much of an established sport, and there’s no pipeline to the top. In 1990, however, her future is fully put into Jim’s hands at 22 when he threatens to expose her lesbian proclivities unless she marries him, even though he’s 25 years older.
Three years later, Christy feels like she’s hit a plateau in her career as she continues to struggle to get consistent fights. In fact, she and Jim are barely surviving.
Their fortunes change, however, when Mike Tyson’s promoter, Don King, signs her for a six fight deal that has the potential to pay her $30,000. In 1996, Christy wins the first women’s fight airing on pay per view. Even against world-class opponents, Christy proves herself to be the best and finds herself a true celebrity as she makes a case for being the world’s best women’s boxer.
Sadly, this ride doesn’t last forever and seven years later, she’s forced into fights she shouldn’t be pursuing in order to pay the bills. Jim makes her fight Muhammed Ali’s daughter, Laila, despite Laila weighing thirty pounds more than Christy. The fight doesn’t go well for Christy, and she struggles to find bouts afterward.
Things get really desperate as Christy and Jim continue to struggle financially given Christy’s lack of fights. As the money gets tighter, Jim’s abuse of Christy ramps up, though it’s been going on the whole time. Then, when she says she’s going to leave him, he threatens to kill her. The final straw for Christy comes, however, when she learns that Jim has been skimming money off her earnings, while also sharing explicit photos of her with his friends.
Christy decides to fight for ownership over their house and the gym her prize money bought. Will Christy prove to be triumphant over the man who has been running her life for 20 years, or will Jim prove too powerful of an opponent for Christy to defeat?
CHRISTY is well made and acted, especially by Sydney Sweeney who disappears into the title role. The movie successfully generates lots of sympathy for the renowned female boxer, Christy Martin.
However, the movie has a strong, abhorrent Romantic, politically correct worldview that promotes homosexual immorality. Christy pushes back against her Catholic mother. The movie also often demonizes Christy’s mother. The mother even refuses to help Christy when Christy asks for help from her abusive husband.
CHRISTY also has lots of strong foul language, more than 30 strong obscenities and profanities. The movie also contains very strong boxing violence, scenes of domestic abuse, a bloody and vicious attack, lewd content, and brief cocaine use.
