How Accurate Is the Von Erich Movie?

The following publish comprises SPOILERS for The Iron Claw — however actually they’re simply the precise historic occasions detailed in the film.

Pro wrestling is at its finest when it blurs the line between fantasy and actuality. The fights are staged and predetermined, however typically the animosity between the opponents can get very actual, and the storylines are sometimes impressed by components of the members’ lives. The extra actual the matches and their stakes feels, the extra the viewers invests.

So you might argue that no matter the inaccuracies in the wrestling film The Iron Claw, it is just taking its cues from its topic. The movie depicts the lives of the Von Erichs, a household of Texas wrestlers who rose to nationwide stardom in the Eighties due to their infectious power, boundless charisma, and their convincing true-life wrestling storylines. In the ring, the Von Erichs (together with Kevin, performed by Zac Efron, and Kerry, performed by Jeremy Allen White) primarily performed themselves: A decent-knit crew of brothers who had every others backs by way of thick and skinny.

Of course, the actuality of the Von Erichs was not at all times so easy — and the identical could possibly be stated of The Iron Claw’s model of the household as nicely. Below, we’ll undergo all of the issues the film precisely portrays, and all of the issues it fudges for the sake of telling a cinematic story — primarily all of the particulars it leaves out, a few of that are much more astounding than the stuff depicted onscreen.

READ MORE: ScreenCrush’s The Iron Claw Review