
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.
Trailers & More
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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