In the vast, chaotic graveyard of early 2000s cinema, few films have maintained a stranger afterlife than Punch (2002). Directed by Guy Becerra and starring Michaela McManus, Sonny Marinelli, and Marisa Petroro, this gritty drama about the violent world of illegal boxing never quite broke into the mainstream. Yet, for the past decade, it has found an unlikely savior: the Russian social networking site Ok.ru .
For Western users, searching seems bizarre. Why would a Russian networking site host an obscure American B-movie? punch 2002 ok.ru
If you do locate the film on Ok.ru, consider yourself an archaeologist of forgotten cinema. Punch is not a great movie – the acting is wooden, the plot is predictable, and the production feels cheap. But it is a snapshot of an era when Hollywood still took chances on gritty, low-budget dramas. In the vast, chaotic graveyard of early 2000s