Just Another Romantic Wrestling Comedy

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Just Another Romantic Wrestling Comedy
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Directed byKim Sky
Evan Seplow
Written byKim Sky
Produced byKim Sky
Dariusz Uczkowski
Ken Yasuda
Starring April Hunter
Aaron Fiore
Joanie Laurer
Don Frye
CinematographyEvan Seplow
Edited byJazzmyn Banks
Distributed byUczkowski Productions
Victory Multimedia
Release date
  • December 1, 2006 (2006-12-01)
Running time
105 minutes
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish

Just Another Romantic Wrestling Comedy is a 2006 film starring April Hunter and Joanie Laurer. This romantic comedy was premiered at New Jersey and New York City on December 1, 2006 and was released on DVD in the United States and the United Kingdom on April 17, 2007. After the film's DVD release Just Another Romantic Wrestling Comedy won an Honorable Mention award at the New Jersey International Festival awards. The release was handled by Victory Multimedia.

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Plot

The film is about a Jewish man named Marty Shalom Weinstein (Fiore) who falls in love with a wrestling princess Sandy and it's a "no holds barred" quest for her love, the Jewish man finds he has to fight for his love as Sandy's dad is also a wrestler who only wants his daughter to marry a famous wrestler, and not a Jewish man with little money and no muscles. Robert also has to deal with Roxanne (Laurer) and Jennie (Marshall) along with others out to get him.

Cast

Reception

Critical reception for the movie was negative, with the only review on Rotten Tomatoes calling it "Just another bad movie." [2] Wrestling reviewer Brian Zane called the film "without a doubt the absolute worst movie I have ever seen. Ever". [3]

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References

  1. "Cast & Crew".
  2. Just Another Romantic Wrestling Comedy|Rotten Tomatoed
  3. Just Another Romantic Wrestling Comedy|Wrestling With Wregret