Fist Fight

After school. Parking lot. It’s on.

On the last day of the year, a mild-mannered high school English teacher is trying his best to keep it together amidst senior pranks, a dysfunctional administration and budget cuts that put jobs on the line. Things go from bad to worse when he accidentally crosses a much tougher and deeply feared colleague, who challenges him to an old-fashioned fist fight after school. News of the fight spreads like wildfire and ends up becoming the very thing this school, and the English teacher, needed. The critics were not knocked out.

91 minutes.
No persons under 16 (Language).
Comedy.

Not currently showing on the local cinema circuit.

Careful ... this finger is loaded.

Credits

Cast	Charlie Day, Ice Cube, Tracy Morgan, Jillian Bell, Dean Norris, Christina Hendricks, Kumail Nanjiani
Director	Richie Keen
Screenplay	Van Robichaux, Evan Susser, Max Greenfield
Music	Dominic Lewis
Cinematography	Eric Alan Edwards
Editing	Matthew Freund
Made in	2017
Produced by	New Line Cinema, Village Roadshow Pictures, 21 Laps Entertainment, Wrigley Pictures, Van Brand

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Film and Publications Board (FPB) Report (SA)

Genre	Comedy
Language	Strong impact, frequent use of crude and vulgar language.
Nudity	Low impact
Sex	None
Violence	Fairly frequent, traumatic, mild to moderate impact
Prejudice	None
Blasphemy	None
Drug abuse	None
Comments
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USA MPAA rating

R: Restricted	Rated R for language throughout, sexual content/nudity and drug material
Runtime	91
USA version is usually but not always the same as South African release. Versions released on streaming or DVD, Blu-ray or Video may also differ.

ScreenIt Report (USA)

Sex / Nudity	Violence	Blood / Gore / Gross
Guns / Weapons	Profanity	Alcohol / Drugs
Smoking	Disrespectful / Bad Attitude	Imitative Behaviour
Frightening / Tense Scenes	Jump Scenes	Tense Family Scenes
Music (Scary/Tense)	Music (Inappropriate)	Topics to talk about

CommonSenseMedia Report (USA)

Suggested age limit 17 +	Positive messages	Positive role models
Violence	Sex	Language
Consumerism	Drinking, drugs, smoking

Ratings

Scale (Max)	20
What the Critics say
Cape Argus / The Star John DeFore Rumble-com heads towards hilarious showdown.	10
Cape Times Unknown	5
ScreenIt T. Durgin There’s enough that works in Fist Fight to make up for the parts that don’t work. Again, I’m no prude, but there wasn’t any reason to make the dialogue SO unrelentingly profane.	12
Metacritic.com 26 critics	7
Rottentomatoes critics 82 critics	8
Rottentomatoes tomatometer Tomatometer Fist Fight boasts a surplus of comedic muscle but flails lazily, and far too few of its jokes land with enough force to register.	6
Movie Review Query Engine MRQE critics	8
CommonSenseMedia Staff evaluation Terrible messages about masculinity ruin comedy’s jokes.	5
What the People say
Metacritic.com users 12 users	9
Rottentomatoes users 7183 users	12
Internet 1413 Netizens You Can’t Fight The Simplicity Of This Film	12
Average .. 43%	9