If you loved Somebody Up There Likes Me, try The Set-Up

A bridge between a film you've already seen and one most people haven't. Here's what they share, and what the second one does that the first one doesn't.

What they share

Both films are directed by Robert Wise, and they sit in Drama territory. If that's the register that drew you to Somebody Up There Likes Me, the second film will land in a comparable space — through a different lens.

What The Set-Up is

You train a washed-up boxer for one last purse and skim his bets for a fixer who pays in double-shifts and dead-end alleyways. Then the gangster eyes the main event with a different kind of leverage. Robert Wise stages 1949 neon and back-alley grime until the ring ropes tighten around every loose end.

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