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Ben Affleck and Matt Damon are among the producers for the biographical sports feature about a student athlete born without his right leg.
Ben Affleck and Matt Damon are among the producers for the biographical sports feature about a student athlete born without his right leg.
Jennifer Lopez plays the mother to a college wrestler whose path includes no shortage of challenges in the trailer for Amazon MGM Studios‘ biographical sports movie Unstoppable.
William Goldenberg’s fact-based drama feature hits select theaters Dec. 6 before streaming via Prime Video on Jan. 16, 2025. Jharrel Jerome, Bobby Cannavale, Michael Peña and Don Cheadle round out the cast.
Unstoppable centers on Anthony Robles (Jerome), a student athlete who is born without a right leg and endures an abusive upbringing while dreaming of becoming a successful college wrestler.
“When people look at me, the first thing they see is what’s missing,” Jerome says in the trailer. “If I win, having one leg won’t be the most important thing about me.”
Later, Lopez delivers a pep talk to her son. “You make people believe in something,” she says. “When they see you, they don’t see someone who’s missing a leg. They see someone who is unstoppable.”
Goldenberg makes his feature directorial debut from a script by Eric Champnella, Alex Harris and John Hindman. The film is based on the 2012 book Unstoppable: From Underdog to Undefeated: How I Became a Champion, which Robles co-wrote with Austin Murphy.
Producers on the film include Robles, Ben Affleck, David Crockett, Matt Damon, Andy Fraser, Elaine Goldsmith-Thomas and Gary Lewis.
Unstoppable premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival. In his review for The Hollywood Reporter, chief film critic David Rooney wrote that “any sense of emotional manipulation in the script is more than justified by the extraordinary human drama of Robles’ story.”
