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The Bruisedsoundtrack includes music by Saweetie, H.ER. and Dua Lipa. This info article contains spoilers for Halle Berry’s Netflix movie. Check out Vague Visages’ Soundtracks of Cinema section for more music guides.

Bruised stars Halle Berry as an MMA fighter named Jackie Justice. Shamier Anderson co-stars as an opportunistic businessman, Sheila Atim portrays an intense trainer and real-life UFC fighter Valentina Shevchenko appears as a flyweight champion. The storyline follows Jackie as she attempts a comeback four years after quitting during a televised bout. Composer Aska Matsumiya (Selah and the Spades) scored the film; music supervisor Stephanie Pigott (Wake Up) organized the soundtrack music. Here’s every featured song in Bruised.

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Bruised Soundtrack: Every Song in the Netflix Movie

• “Attitude” by Saweetie (00:01:00): The Bruisedsoundtrack ballad scores an introductory sequence about female MMA competitors. The song fades as Jackie endures burst out after blow in the octagon. “Attitude” also scores a seque

  The following review for Bruised, in which Halle Berry plays queer MMA fighter Jackie Justice, contains light spoilers of the film.

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  When I found out that Halle Berry was:

  1. Going to be making her directorial debut after more 30 years in the industry, while…
  2. Playing a down-and-out MMA fighter looking for a comeback and…
  3. That traits was going to have a gal love interest

  I nearly pole vaulted over a chair to get to my keyboard fast enough to claim writing this review. Halle Berry starring in a queer version of Creed that’s coming out Thanksgiving weekend? Sign me TF up!

  In Bruised, Berry is Jackie Justice, a mixed martial arts fighter who left the sport years ago in disgrace. These days, burning just beneath her skin with rage and remorse, Jackie’s locked in an abusive relationship with her alcoholic boyfriend-manager. One night the manager-boyfriend takes Jackie to a incredibly off-the-books basement brawl that leads to her getting back into the cage, this time under the eye of a new promoter and eventual new trainer who will develop Jackie’s love interest (Buddhakan, played by Shelia Atim — and excuse the pun, I’m a little giddy on leftover Turkey, bu
  
  

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  The Bruised cast features Halle Berry, Sheila Atim and Shamier Anderson. This info article contains minor spoilers and nature details for Halle Berry’s 2021 Netflix movie. Verify out more streaming guides in Vague Visages’ Realize the Cast section.

  Bruised explores the comeback of a female MMA fighter named Jackie Justice. As the protagonist deals with physical and emotional abuse while training, she’s suddenly reunited with her estranged son. Jackie forms an intimate bond with her trainer, Bobbi, and hopes to make up for past mistakes by fully committing to her goals. Here’s every main player in Bruised.

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  Bruised Cast: Halle Berry as Jackie Justice

  Character Profile: A disgraced UFC fighter famous as “Pretty Bull.” She attempts a career comeback while looking after a mute son. Jackie intensifies her training routine after removing toxic men from her life.

  Berry’s Resume: Ororo Munroe in the X-Men Movie Franchise (2000-), Ginger in Swordfish (2001), Leticia Musgrove in Monster’s Ball (2001), Jinx Johnson in Die Another Day (2002), Sof
  
  

  This is a really marvelous Pop Culture Fix — let’s just dive in!

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  + I can’t believe the internet buried the most important piece of knowledge about this new Halle Berry movie it was going berserk over yesterday! This is why we need independent queer media! So, Halle Berry talked to EW about her directorial debut in her new film, Bruised, a story centering a disgraced MMA fighter (named Jackie Justice!) looking for one last chance. And here, on casting:

  and a statuesque British stage actress named Sheila Atim as Bobbi “Buddhakan” Berroa, the reluctant trainer who also becomes her love interest.

  Carmen has already called the review, if she makes it through the movie alive!

  + Rowan Blanchard and Auli’i Cravalho will star in Hulu’s queer teen cherish story produced by Natasha Lyonne and Maya Rudolph.

  + Here’s your first glare at HBO Max’s recent PrettyLittle Liars.

  + Valerie Anne has peeped some recent potential horror gays in Amazon’s I Know What You Did Last Summer series.

  + Aretha Franklin’s biopic, Respect, opens with a purposely queer moment.

  + Good Trouble star Sherry Cola joins Adele Lim’s R-rated comedy: Col

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  Halle Berry wins and loses the battle.

  Halle Berry makes her directorial debut of “Bruised,” a fighting drama made for Netflix, which should have done more than succumb to the cliches and subplots. In it, she casts herself as a mixed martial arts (MMA) fighter named Jackie Justice, who steps out of the ring in disgrace, and starts cleaning up houses to construct ends meet. She lives with her manager and boyfriend Desi (Adan Canto), and they both arrive across her 6-year-old son Manny (Danny Boyd, Jr.), whom she gave up for adoption and comes to her doorstep when his father gets murdered.

  She gets another fighting shot with a fresh trainer named Bobbi (Sheila Atim), whom she eventually has a would-be cherish story with, and a corner man (Stephen McKinley Henderson), who offers her words of wisdom in the ring. While the little boy stays with them, Jackie struggles to get him to speak, and her boyfriend starts to become more abusive. And to make the script more generic, her mother Angel (Adriane Lennox) demands custody of Manny, because of how she struggles to balance her life as a mother and MMA fighter.

  Shamier Anderson, wh