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First Match

This is HER fight.

Hardened by years in foster care, a teenage girl from Brooklyn’s Brownsville neighborhood decides that wrestling boys is the only way back to her estranged father.

20181h 34mNRDrama

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About First Match

Directors
Olivia Newman
Cast
Elvire Emanuelle, Yahya Abdul-Mateen II, Colman Domingo, Jharrel Jerome, Jared Kemp, Jeanette Branch
Genres
Drama
Content rating
NR
Original language
English
Production countries
United States of America
Status
Released

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