Beyond the Mat - Metacritic
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  • 2000
  • Unrated
  • Universal Pictures
  • 1 h 42 m
  • 2000
  • Unrated
  • Universal Pictures
  • 1 h 42 m

Summary Documentry focusing on the lives of professional wrestlers. Gives the viewer a behind-the-scenes look at how their sport is not fake.

Directed By: Barry W. Blaustein

Written By: Barry W. Blaustein

  • 2000
  • Unrated
  • Universal Pictures
  • 1 h 42 m
  • 2000
  • Unrated
  • Universal Pictures
  • 1 h 42 m
Beyond the Mat
Metascore Generally Favorable Based on 23 Critic Reviews
73
User Score Generally Favorable Based on 9 User Ratings
7.4
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Summary Documentry focusing on the lives of professional wrestlers. Gives the viewer a behind-the-scenes look at how their sport is not fake.

Directed By: Barry W. Blaustein

Written By: Barry W. Blaustein

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Metascore
Generally Favorable Based on 23 Critic Reviews
73
91% Positive
21 Reviews
4% Mixed
1 Review
4% Negative
1 Review

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Metascore
Generally Favorable Based on 23 Critic Reviews
73
91% Positive
21 Reviews
4% Mixed
1 Review
4% Negative
1 Review

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100
Stay far, far away unless you can handle the copious amounts of blood--and agonizing psychological problems-- that its participants face on what seems like a daily basis.
By David Sterritt FULL REVIEW
83
Frighteningly, grippingly real.
By Shawn Levy FULL REVIEW
78
A center ring extravaganza of smackdown movie entertainment
By Russell Smith FULL REVIEW
75
Suggests that professional wrestling is more than a multibillion-dollar industry: It's also a way of life.
By Rene Rodriguez FULL REVIEW
70
Connects the antics of professional wrestlers with their lives out of the ring with such compassion, humor and perception that the result is utterly captivating.
By Kevin Thomas FULL REVIEW
70
Takes an easy target and turns it into something naggingly weird.
By Robert Horton FULL REVIEW
38
Trouble is, it's too close-up.
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User Score
Generally Favorable Based on 9 User Ratings
7.4
78% Positive
7 Ratings
22% Mixed
2 Ratings
0% Negative
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Generally Favorable Based on 9 User Ratings
7.4
78% Positive
7 Ratings
22% Mixed
2 Ratings
0% Negative
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Production Company Universal Family and Home Entertainment, Imagine Entertainment, Lionsgate Films
Release Date Mar 17, 2000
Duration 1 h 42 m
Rating Unrated
Genres
Tagline The movie Vince McMahon does not want you to see!
Website http://www.beyondthemat.net/
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Awards

Cinequest San Jose Film Festival
• 2 Wins & 2 Nominations
SXSW Film Festival
• 1 Win & 1 Nomination
Las Vegas Film Critics Society Awards
• 1 Nomination

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