This is the ultimate film for true fans of pro wrestling. If you have seen and enjoyed "Hitman Hart: Wrestling With Shadows" then you will love this film even more as it is even better!
"Beyond The Mat" is written & directed by life long wrestling fan Barry Blaustien and to be totally honest the film is ground-breaking. It really pulls no punches telling all about the inner workings of the world of pro wrestling.
"Beyond The Mat" focuses on three wrestlers. Terry Funk, who claims to be retiring but is still wrestling today in WCW, Jake "The Snake" Roberts, once a ring great and now nothing more than an out-of-shape, washed up crack head, and Mick Foley, who is now retired. And this is were "Beyond The Mat" gains respect from both wrestling fans and non-wrestling fans as it does not show them as supermen but as real people, with real lives, and real families.
So if you are willing to have you illusions of your favourite stars shattered before your eyes then see "Beyond The Mat" and you will gain a new level of respect for the world of pro-wrestling.
"Beyond The Mat" is written & directed by life long wrestling fan Barry Blaustien and to be totally honest the film is ground-breaking. It really pulls no punches telling all about the inner workings of the world of pro wrestling.
"Beyond The Mat" focuses on three wrestlers. Terry Funk, who claims to be retiring but is still wrestling today in WCW, Jake "The Snake" Roberts, once a ring great and now nothing more than an out-of-shape, washed up crack head, and Mick Foley, who is now retired. And this is were "Beyond The Mat" gains respect from both wrestling fans and non-wrestling fans as it does not show them as supermen but as real people, with real lives, and real families.
So if you are willing to have you illusions of your favourite stars shattered before your eyes then see "Beyond The Mat" and you will gain a new level of respect for the world of pro-wrestling.