Fighting With My Family Review: 7 Ups & 3 Downs

5. It's Surprisingly Honest

If the marketing suggested that Fighting with My Family would be a fairly sanitised look at both the world of professional wrestling and also Paige's family life itself, the end result is a good deal more upfront than you might expect.

For starters, Paige's parents - played with gusto by Nick Frost and Lena Headey - are depicted as the wild, uncouth carnies that they're well-known to be in real life, with the film refusing to shy away from her father's criminal past and their general shadiness.

Furthermore, few would've been surprised if Vince McMahon mandated that the Divas Title be retroactively renamed to the Women's Title - as it's now known - but in a rare moment of restraint from the WWE, they actually keep to its dated, arguably sexist 2014 nomenclature.

The film also doesn't present a particularly romanticised view of being a professional wrestler, emphasising the difficulty of "making it" in the industry, as envisioned by the genuinely affecting tragedy of Paige's brother Zak (Jack Lowden) having to come to terms with the fact he'll never get to the grandest stage of them all.

A lot of the credit here can go to writer-director Stephen Merchant, whose previous work has shown him a dab hand at heartfelt humanism, which this film is certainly overflowing with.