Saraya "Paige" Knight competes as part of a wrestling mad family from Norwich, who run a local wrestling gig out the back of a van.
This is the "pro" TV brand of wrestling, complete with fake punches, body slams and dramatic leaps from the top rope on to some poor
sucker waiting to take the fall—the kind of wrestling that spawned the likes of Hulk Hogan and (yes) Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson.
For Saraya (the excellent Florence Pugh) and her brother Zac (Jack Lowden), the dream of making it to the glitz and glamour of America's WWE hits a snag when the inseparable siblings have to split their tag-team… she is selected to trial, he isn't.
This simple but true story is a classic rags-to-riches tale, like Rocky its story is built on sweaty training montages and more eye-rolling cliches than a wrestler's verbal retort.
Of course, no film about wrestling would be complete without an appearance from the aforementioned mountain of machismo himself. The Rock's planetary sized screen presence orbits his goofy charismatic charm, sucking your attention with tractor-beam-like command. So it's unfortunate that he only makes two brief appearances (despite promo material suggesting otherwise). But hey, that's one for each bicep.
