Mike Terry

...between him and his wife, Sondra (Alice Braga). But their lives change drastically when Terry is compelled to come to the aid of an actor, Chet Frank (Tim Allen), during a bar fight. Frank befriends Terry and invites him to come and work...

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...case a jiu-jitsu instructor named Mike Terry (Chiwetel Ejiofor) who runs a Los Angeles martial arts academy where he trains both lay people and cops. Already low on cash, much to his clothing designer wife's (Alice Braga) chagrin, Mike...

In this article: David Mamet, Redbelt, Joe Mantegna, Tim Allen, Jean-Pierre Melville, Emily Mortimer, Chiwetel Ejiofor, Max Martini, and Rodrigo Santoro

...running a sinking business. When a panicked woman named Laura Black (the ever reliable Emily Mortimer) accidentally crashes into Terry's car on a rainy night, she enters his academy to pay restitution for the damage. One of Terry's top students...

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...about the struggle to live. There is no struggle initially for Mike Terry (the excellent British actor Chiwetel Ejiofor), an almost messianic Los Angeles jujitsu instructor with a grave sense of purpose. With his mouthy wife, Sondra...

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...can be both attractive and warm, fierce and intimidating. A series of strangely intertwined events forces Mike into the ring, a place he's never wanted to be, to fight for $50,000. Among the players pushing him into battle are his sexpot...

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...upcoming MMA tournament -- competition is against his belief system. Instead he reluctantly turns to a loan shark (David Paymer), at the insistence of his wife (Alice Braga). It looks like everything is going to work out when Hollywood action...

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...his wife Sondra (Alice Braga), struggle to keep the business running to make ends meet. An accident on a dark, rainy night at the Academy between an off duty officer (Max Martini) and a distraught lawyer (Emily Moritimer) puts in motion a...

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