First Match

About First Match

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.

First Match (2018) is a drama film directed by Olivia Newman. Released in March 2018, it runs 94 minutes.

Elvire Emanuelle stars as Monique, Yahya Abdul-Mateen II as Darrel, Colman Domingo as Coach Castile, and Jharrel Jerome as Omari. Written by Olivia Newman. It was produced by Clubhouse Pictures.

Shelv files it under wrestling, estranged father, and sports. In the United States it streams on Netflix and Netflix Standard with Ads.

Good Posture, The Intern, and Unbroken make useful companions to First Match. It scores 6.4 out of 10 from 149 TMDB voters.