Release: Undefeated Abe

 

Undefeated Abe
Genre: Drama/Comedy/Historical
Director: Ron Howard
Writer: Joshua Collins
Cast: Adam Driver, Kurt Russell, Peter Dinklage, Zoey Deutch, Carson Bolde, Liam Hemsworth, Katheryn Winnick






Budget: $48,000,000
Domestic Box Office: $43,019,940
Foreign Box Office: $16,874,075
Total Profit: -$28,004,330

Reaction: Part historical drama and part wrestling comedy, Undefeated Abe may have just been too strange of a combination of ideas and genres to make much sense from a marketing standpoint.

"While the pacing is too fast and it takes time for us to meet Driver as Abe, this film is entertaining. I believe that is what the filmmakers were going for, and I can say I indeed was entertained. I have reservations about the film, but they don’t deter me from having a enjoyable experience with Undefeated Abe." - J. Darrell Ellington, Behind the Camera

"Undefeated Abe takes an inherently silly idea and plays it all far too straight. Despite a (mostly) talented cast and a steady hand like Ron Howard behind the camera, the entire premise feels like too much of a miss-match of ideas to ever work as a whole." - Paul Onkean, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette

"Based on the concept of the film, Undefeated Abe feels like it should have been more fun and silly than it wound up being in execution. The final product feels too earnest and failed to take full advantage of its ideas. I was never fully engrossed in the film, but I was also never bored, as it is at least mostly interesting throughout and moves at a nice and quick pace to avoid wearing out its welcome."  - Stephen Anderson, Entertainment Weekly

Rated PG-13 for wrestling violence