Steve Carell’s movie ‘Foxcatcher’ is already getting rave reviews. The ‘Forty Year Old Virgin’ Actor stars in ‘Foxcatcher’ as John E. du Pont, a millionaire who suffered from mental illness and murdered Dave Schultz (Mark Ruffalo), a gold-medal winning wrestler in 1996.
Channing Tatum plays Dave's brother, wrestler Mark Schultz, and the film is played out through his perspective.
Steve Carell is almost unrecognizable in the movie, due to a prosthetic nose and creepy presence. Much like Charlize Theron’s Oscar winning role in ‘Monster,’ early reviews are saying that Carell may be an Oscar contender for the part.
Carell’s “'Foxcatcher' role feels like a career game-changer simply because it's so fascinating and brilliantly executed," writes the Vulture's Kyle Buchanan, who also thinks Channing Tatum could be up for an Oscar.
According to Slate, Mark and Dave Schultz were world champion wrestlers, who each won gold medals in the 1984 Olympics. Du Pont, who suffered from schizophrenia, was the sponsor of the competitive Team Foxcatcher. In 1996, after years of increasingly erratic behavior, du Pont shot Dave dead in his driveway, and was “found guilty but mentally ill.” Du Pont was sentenced to 13-30 years in prison and died at the age of 72 in 2010.
Carell is seen slapping Tatum’s character in the teaser trailer. And then he speaks in a voiceover saying, “The coach is the father, the coach is the mentor, the coach has great power over an athlete’s life.”
“Carell is the revelation that everyone has suggested in the role, and then some: vocally, physically and psychologically he is not just unrecognizable, he simply is a different man, and a man whose tragic flaw (cursed to wield great wealth and influence with no shred of greatness to justify it) is the entire story of this film. It’s seldom we’ve ever witnessed such a total erasure of self in a role, and it deserves to win him everything, everywhere,” writes Jessica Kiang at Indiewire's The Playlist.
"Foxcatcher" will hit theaters on Nov. 14.
Watch the teaser trailer below!
