Team Foxcatcher

Team Foxcatcher retraces the lives of Dave Schultz (internationally renown freestyle wrestler) and John du Pont (philanthropist and proponent of amateur sports). This documentary explores why and how du Pont set up a training center for wrestling at Foxcatcher Farm, where athletes could come from all over to hone their skills, and why and how various Olympic-caliber wrestlers came to work and train there. It also documents du Pont's bizarre behavior and declining mental health, which led to a tragic end for both men.

Released 2016; Runtime 90 minutes

Concepts

• Mental Health Issues: John du Pont engages in behaviors ranging from a little strange to downright threatening; Becomes excessively paranoid as time passes, which is taken out on people at his training center.
• Pursuing Your Dream: Because it is difficult for wrestlers to have funding, a training center at Foxcatcher Farm with high-end equipment and coaches, for free, enabled numerous athletes to live and breathe wrestling as they trained to compete at the highest levels of competition.