A high-school senior with a fiery temper and reputation for trouble, Diana lives with her brother and single dad, Sandro, in a housing project in Red Hook. Each week Sandro pays a local trainer to put some meat and muscle on his son, but when Diana decides she, too, wants to be a boxer, he refuses. With dogged determination, Diana begins a grueling training regimen and, under the loving tutelage of her trainer, becomes the gym's first female champion. The discipline, cunning, and humility required to be a contender are the cold shower Diana needs to focus her ambitions. But when she falls in love with a promising amateur, her priorities are forced into burning focus.
Production Green/Renzi; Independent Film Channel (IFC);
Cast Names Michelle Rodriguez; Jaime Tirelli; Paul Calderon; Santiago Douglas; Ray Santiago; Víctor Sierra; Elisa Bocanegra; Shannon Walker Williams; Louis Guss; Herb Lovelle; Thomas Barbour; Graciella Ortiz; John-Peter Linton; Iris Little Thomas; Dadi Pinero; Belqui Ortiz; Chuck Hickey; Anthony Ruiz; José Rabelo; José Espinal; John Sayles; Jack R. Marks; Yiyo Guzman; Diane Martella; Michael Bentt; Gus Santorella; Courtney Krause; Edgardo Claudio; Millie Tirelli; Allan Gropper; Alicia Ashley; Danny Gant; Josephine Pignataro; Sanford Redock; Allie Woods Jr.; Ricky Colon; Andre Eason; Jose Espinal; Angel Gonzalez; Gabby Guzman;
Box Office USD 1,523,941
Release Date 2000-01-22 (Sundance Film Festival) 2000-09-29 (limited)