The Backyard

With the soaring popularity of the WWE in the late 1990s came a wave of amateurs who wanted to join their ranks, and this film chronicles the dangerous and often bloody wrestling matches that people would set up in their backyards for small audiences. Some of the participants are in it only for the adrenaline rush, while others look at the matches as a potential springboard to fame. This documentary features interviews with the wrestlers as well as their conflicted friends and family members. …