Anywayz, yes this definitely was a typical British feel-good movie. Saraya is being raised by her cringe-trashy wrestler parents (played by Lena Headey and Nick Frost), along with her brother, to join the family business -- a really really small wrestling league/group in Norwich, England. Her family is really REALLY into this, while she feels dragged along. At tryouts for the WWE, nobody is more surprised than Saraya that she is picked, rather than her brother, than Saraya herself. But despite tension and resentment, she owes it to the family to try. Off to America she goes, encouraged by words from The Rock.
This is bio-pic light, because unknown to me, her character Paige was a real WWE wrestler. We get to see how Saraya deals with being the small town English girl shoved into the bright sunlight of the Florida training camp, her being more gothy than her fellow tryouts. I almost see this part as a metaphor for Pugh's current state, and maybe more than a little inspiration to pursue her career in Hollywood. After the typical setbacks, Paige comes at the whole WWE thing renewed and with even more vigorous, and becomes the famous star that actual wrestling fans will have to explain to me.
Bonus Paragraph: There are small home-video clips in the rolling credits scenes, that confirmed that Headey and Frost did a spectacular job playing the utter cringe nature of her parents. They are utterly unashamed of who they were (criminals) and who they are (wrestlers) and surprisingly, that's the most feel-good part of it.
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