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{{Infobox television

| image = Andr the Giant (film).jpg

| caption = Film poster

| director = Jason Hehir

| producer = Janine Marmot
Bill Simmons
Jason Hehir
Matt Maxson
Jacob Rogal

| writer = Simon Pummell

| music = Thomas Caffey

| editor = Daniel Goddard

|company =

| distributor = HBO

| released =

| runtime = 85 minutes

| country = United States

| budget =

}}

'Andr the Giant' is a 2018 TV documentary film based on the life of French professional wrestler and actor Andr Ren Roussimoff, best known as Andr the Giant. The documentary covers Andr's life with gigantism. The film features professional wrestlers and media personalities such as Vince McMahon, Hulk Hogan, Pat Patterson, Tim White, Ric Flair, Dave Meltzer, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Billy Crystal as well as family members discussing Andr's life.

The film was executively produced by Janine Marmot and Bill Simmons, who had been interested in creating a documentary on Andr previously. The documentary was slated as focusing on his "upbringing in France, his celebrated career in WWE and his forays in the entertainment world".

Reception



The review aggregation website Rotten Tomatoes reports an approval rating of , based on reviews, with an average rating of . The website's consensus reads, "Well-crafted and entertaining, 'Andre the Giant' is a compelling celebration of a wrestling legend." Metacritic, which uses a weighted average, assigned the film a normalized score of 78 out of 100, based on 6 critics, indicating "generally favorable reviews".

In July 2018, HBO claimed the Andr the Giant film was the most watched sports documentary in its history.

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