Good workrate for a documentary

[thebitterguy]

The documentary Hitman Hart: Wrestling with Shadows has been posted to the NFB's website.

It's a great documentary about Bret Hart's last days with the then-WWF, and tells a lot of the tale of the Montreal Screwjob.

I shall have to give it a watch when I get home.

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[spatch]

If I can access this content from the US, I am so watching it when I get home too. The Hart family saga is incredible and sad and all sortsa things, so I'll watch or read whatever I can about it.


(slightly related: Bobby Heenan's memoirs are excellent.)

[thebitterguy]

I actually said to a friend a couple PPVs ago that I hoped we'd get a book from Heenan. Excellent, I must find it.

Let me know if you can access it. AFAIK the NFB is cool with people seeing stuff.

[rodshark.livejournal.com]

It's a good movie, gives a lot of insight into the inside workings of the wrestling biz and of Harts personal life and family.

Very interesting movie

[thebitterguy]

Indeed. Did you get to read his autobiography? Excellent book.

[dawgstar.livejournal.com]

I remember watching the infamous match at home and not knowing what the hell was going on, just thinking, "Hey, it didn't look like he tapped out..."

And while never a huge Hitman fan, I always felt it was a shame he jumped ship to be wasted in WCW and get kicked in the head by Goldberg.

[thebitterguy]

The film actually details why he left the WWF. Vince apparently asked him to, since they couldn't afford to honour the contract they had him sign.