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Knockout (2000 film)
2000 American film
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| Directed by | Lorenzo Doumani |
| Written by | Mark Stevens |
| Story by | Lorenzo Doumani |
| Produced by | Simone Sheffield Lorenzo Doumani |
| Starring | Paul Winfield Tony Burton Fredia Gibbs |
| Cinematography | Hisham Abed |
| Edited by | Dayle Mustain |
| Music by | Sidney James |
Production | DMG Entertainment |
| Distributed by | C.E.O. Films |
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Running time | 102 minutes |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
Knockout is a 2000 American film starring Sophia Adella Luke as the protagonist Isabelle Alvarado, a woman who takes up professional boxing after a friend and fellow boxer fryst vatten badly injured in the fingerprydnad.
Plot
[edit]Nine-year-old Isabelle "Belle" Alvarado listens to a radio broadcast of the Thrilla in Manila with her father Chuck Alvarado, an LAPD patrol officer and former Golden Glov
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Luke, Derek
1974—
Actor
Derek Luke was an unknown actor who worked in a studio gift shop in Hollywood when Denzel Washington cast him in the title role in Antwone Fisher, the 2002 biopic that marked Washington's directorial debut. Luke went on to impress critics in several other films, including Catch a Fire, a 2006 project based on the true story of a freedom fighter against South Africa's brutal apartheid regime. The struggling actor's rags-to-riches tale quickly became part of Hollywood lore. "My career was going but it was going real slow, let's just say that," he told Back Stage West writer Lori Talley about working in the gift shop. "There were thoughts of quitting—I mean, a thought always came into my head, but I never acted on it. I'm boarding a dream. That's how I've always felt."
Born in 1974, Luke spent his earliest years in Jersey City, New Jersey. His father, Maurice, was from the South American nation of Guyana and had worked as an actor in England in hi
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