Tyson - Movie Review and Synopsis

A mixture of original interviews, archival footage, and photographs sheds light on the life experiences of Mike Tyson.

James Toback is known primarily as a writer, and he hasn’t helmed a documentary in a decade, but his connection to Mike Tyson, which reaches back to 1987, when Toback was directing The Pick-Up Artist, makes him the only credible filmmaker to handle a profile of the former heavyweight champ (sorry Spike Lee and others). Back then, Toback acknowledges he spoke with Tyson about his experiences in losing himself — “to have the ‘I’ disintegrate, and to feel disembodied, as if there were a void inside.” With a bond like this, that strengthened through Tyson’s prison stint and continues to this day, what else do you really need to know before you rush out to see one of the best documentaries of this year?

Rated R for language including sexual references.

Director: James Toback
Stars: Mike Tyson
Studio: Sony Pictures Classics
Release Date: 27 March 2009 (UK)
Genre: Documentary

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