UNITED STATES · 2018

First Match

Olivia Newman
foster care father-daughter relationships wrestling coming of age Brooklyn
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Synopsis

Hardened by years in foster care, a teenage girl from Brooklyn’s Brownsville neighborhood decides that wrestling boys is the only way back to her estranged father.

Year2018
CountryUnited States
DirectorOlivia Newman
First Match poster

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