Mike Tyson

Featuring: Mike Tyson
Director: James Toback

In TYSON, the former heavyweight champion looks at his own life in and out of the ring with a candor and eloquence that is by turns shocking, funny, hair-raising and never less than brutally honest. In other words, TYSON explores... MikeTyson.

James Tobacks (Fingers, The Pick-Up Artist) film portrait ranges from Tyson's earliest memories ofgrowing up on the meanest streets of Brooklyn through his entry into the world of boxing under thestewardship of his beloved trainer Cus DAmato. It also covers his misadventures with Don King and histortured marriage to Robin Givens, his rollercoaster ride through the funhouse of worldwide fame, hisfortunes won and lost.

Through a deft mixture of original interviews and archival footage and photographs, a complex, fullyroundedhuman being emerges - a legendary and uniquely controversial international athletic icon.

Tyson