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Ronnie O'Sullivan: The Edge of Everything

  • 2023
  • 1h 53m
IMDb RATING
7.6/10
1.5K
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Ronnie O'Sullivan in Ronnie O'Sullivan: The Edge of Everything (2023)
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The film focuses on understanding the player's genius, illuminating his past through archive family footage and charts his rise to fame from his early teens and the mental challenges he has ... Read allThe film focuses on understanding the player's genius, illuminating his past through archive family footage and charts his rise to fame from his early teens and the mental challenges he has overcome in the pursuit of perfection.The film focuses on understanding the player's genius, illuminating his past through archive family footage and charts his rise to fame from his early teens and the mental challenges he has overcome in the pursuit of perfection.

  • Director
    • Sam Blair
  • Stars
    • Ronnie O'Sullivan
    • Damien Hirst
    • Ronnie Wood
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  • IMDb RATING
    7.6/10
    1.5K
    YOUR RATING
    • Director
      • Sam Blair
    • Stars
      • Ronnie O'Sullivan
      • Damien Hirst
      • Ronnie Wood
    • 12User reviews
    • 18Critic reviews
  • See production info at IMDbPro
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    Ronnie O'Sullivan
    Ronnie O'Sullivan
    • Self
    Damien Hirst
    Damien Hirst
    • Self
    Ronnie Wood
    Ronnie Wood
    • Self
    Jimmy White
    Jimmy White
    • Self
    Stephen Hendry
    Stephen Hendry
    • Self
    Laila Rouass
    Laila Rouass
    • Self
    Mark Allen
    Mark Allen
    • Self
    • (archive footage)
    Dominic Dale
    Dominic Dale
    • Self
    • (archive footage)
    Steve Davis
    Steve Davis
    • Self
    • (archive footage)
    David Gilbert
    David Gilbert
    • Self
    • (archive footage)
    Alex Higgins
    Alex Higgins
    • Self
    • (archive footage)
    John Higgins
    John Higgins
    • Self
    • (archive footage)
    Lauren Higgins
    • Self
    • (archive footage)
    Jack Lisowski
    Jack Lisowski
    • Self
    • (archive footage)
    Stephen Maguire
    Stephen Maguire
    • Self
    • (archive footage)
    Doug Mountjoy
    • Self
    • (archive footage)
    Judd Trump
    Judd Trump
    • Self
    • (archive footage)
    John Williams
    • Self
    • (archive footage)
    • Director
      • Sam Blair
    • All cast & crew
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    10riccardomantiodalton

    An insight into a tortured genius

    This documentary is a brilliant insight into the mind of a champion . I love Ronnie as a snooker player but he's had to battle personal torment and the press to succeed . Masterful documentary that feed like an asif kapadia masterpiece . Well done all involved . 7 heaven ! It'll be a rollercoaster ride of emotions with ups and downs and at times difficult viewing . What I love about this production is that it doesn't romanticise or sanitise professional sports and everything that comes with . Best insight into human nature I've seen in a sporting documentary for a helluva long time . Perhaps the greatest sportsman of all time outside of Donald bradman.
    9captainswanky

    Captures brilliantly the pressure of top sport

    I'm a pool and snooker player and I grew up watching Steve Davis and Stephen Hendry. They were incredible to watch and clinical in the way they played the game and mastered the mental control needed to win at high level.

    Then along came Ronnie O'Sullivan and, my god! He made the game into his own art form. If you've played the game and watched it you recognise an X factor to this guy which sets him apart.

    He's an inspiration to me, how he plays with feeling and instinct and with pure natural talent. The flow of his game. But most of all, as is brilliantly portrayed in this documentary, his ability to overcome his demons on the big stage again and again is remarkable. The film shows that the most mercurial talents are the most captivating to watch. It also really gives you the sense of the intensity of performing in an often claustrophobic arena, the camera constantly on your face looking for any reaction.

    The documentary is well-paced, and covers most of the ground contained in the books about Ronnie. There is however an elephant in the room - that Ronnie doesn't even mention his children. Surely that has to be a massively important part of any father's story. I'm sure it's because he wants to shield them from exposure, but I still find it an omission which makes the story incomplete.

    That's the only reason I didn't give it a 10!
    8malikrob

    The athlete in a working mans sport

    An emotionally and inspiring show on probably the most down to earth GOAT (greatest of all time) snooker player of all time!

    I don't play, I'm not a dedicated fan, but from growing up with Ronnie on BBC and seeing the achievements and tournaments he won and loss, this is unreal.

    An entertaining show, providing his historical family backgrounds, showing his life issues and him being the most upfront honest guy you can imagine.

    Strongly recommend this for any snooker fan, any people with overall sporting interest and for anyone who has interest in world athletes but with a crazy spin on their life - he is the most down to earth every day GOAT athlete you will probably ever come accors..
    10middleearthmusic

    The Loneliness of the Long-Distance Runner

    We all know Ronnie is a special breed. I used to dislike him, I thought he was arrogant, immature and obnoxious. But then I started watching him play and developed a respect for him as a sportsman. Only after that did discover enough about this tortured soul that changed my mind about him.

    He is still the little boy who is looking for approval from his larger than life father. And thought that being successful was the key to happiness. He found out it wasn't.

    This documentary captures his struggle perfectly. A man driven to find the horizon that is always moving away. It shines a light into his nature and those who orbit him.

    It's entertaining, masterfully photographed and edited, with a beautiful score. A huge payoff in the finale too.
    6michael-kerrigan-526-124974

    Why the bed?

    I love Ronnie O Sullivan. Just like I loved other snooker mavericks Alex Higgins and Jimmy White. And this documentary was for the most part an intriguing portrayal of the angst that goes along with the genius. But why oh why does the film have to show Ronnie lying down in a psychiatric like bed to make his point? Not his idea surely? It was incredibly contrived and made me sigh every time I saw it. The viewers do not need gimmicks to try to understand the inner turmoil that the great man has undoubtedly had to face through his 30 year brilliant and at times difficult career. Sometimes you only need the snooker and the talking heads to tell the story. You don't need contrived gimmicks. An 8 out of ten is marked down to 6 for dumbing this otherwise excellent documentary down. A big mis-step in my view. Left me annoyed.

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      Director Sam Blair was careful to win over O'Sullivan's father and spent a year getting to know his mother, Maria, before proposing an interview. Even then, their conversations were held without cameras, and in the film his parents' voices play over the top of old home video and Polaroid pictures.

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    • Release date
      • November 23, 2023 (United Kingdom)
    • Country of origin
      • United Kingdom
    • Language
      • English
    • Also known as
      • The Edge of Everything
    • Production company
      • Studio 99
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      • $35,735
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      • 1h 53m(113 min)
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