Hands of Stone

Name: Hands of Stone
Director: Jonathan Jakubowicz
Genre: Biography, Drama, Sport
Released: 2016
Duration: 111 min
Rating: 6.6
Cast: Edgar Ramirez, Robert De Niro, Usher, Ana de Armas, Ruben Blades

IMDb6.6 HD 2016 111 min

Biography Drama Sport

Roberto Duran grew up in the slums of Panama City, stealing mangoes and fighting for money before he was a teenager. Ray Arcel was a New York trainer who had been forced out of boxing by the mob in the 1950s. In 1971 Arcel took him on, for one dollar a year, and Duran became the best lightweight who ever lived. Hands of Stone is the story of their partnership, and of the two words Duran said in New Orleans in November 1980 that followed him for the rest of his life.

The Two Leonard Fights

In June 1980 Duran beat Sugar Ray Leonard in Montreal in one of the great fights of the decade, moving up to welterweight to do it. Five months later in the rematch he turned away in the eighth round and said “no mas”, and nobody has ever fully agreed why. The film gives its own answer, built around the ten-week turnaround, the weight loss and the politics of a Panamanian fighter under American pressure. Usher plays Leonard and trained for a year to do it.

Why It Is Better Than Its Reviews

De Niro, back in a boxing film thirty-six years after Raging Bull, plays Arcel with a lightness he rarely bothers with now. Ana de Armas, in one of her first English-language roles, plays Duran’s wife Felicidad. The fights were shot in Panama and the crowd scenes use real Panamanians who remember the fights.

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Country: Panama, United States
Released: 2016
Duration: 111 min
Director: Jonathan Jakubowicz
Cast: Edgar Ramirez, Robert De Niro, Usher, Ana de Armas, Ruben Blades, Ellen Barkin
Quality: HD
Updated: 8 Oct 2026