Price of Glory

A throwback to the kind of medicinal matinee movies made for Sunday afternoon outings with the whole family, this Jimmy Smits vehicle is a sincere--if sanctimonious--affair about a failed middleweight contender living vicariously through his three sons, bruisers-in-training all. It's a shame Price of Glory is such an elementary piece of utterly predictable, movie-of-the-week style filmmaking (after a rift forms between father and sons, a requisite tragedy pulls them back together in time to train for The Big Fight), because this boxing-themed, strife-defeating family drama certainly has its heart in the right place. Not a necessary purchase. (R. Blackwelder)