On Monday, May 20, 2019, PBS Independent Lens aired Suzannah
Herbert’s film “Wrestle” (86 min), about a high school wrestling team in Alabama,
a tournament, a tough-love coach Chris Scribner, and the challenges that many
of the young men face at home and in the community, link.
The film has shown in several festivals, like Denver, Hot
Springs, and Oxford (MS).
There is a moment of triumph at the end for one of the team
members. The film emphasizes that the sport is both an individual and a team sport. You have to make weight, have discipline. And it can be intimate. It's an unusual sport.
The film takes place in Huntsville, in the northern part of
the state near the YN border, where the NASA space center is. I visited that in 2014, and earlier in 1989,
where there was an underwater training exhibition then.
There is a theatrical release by Oscilloscope.
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