Peaceful Warrior

...Peaceful Warrior focuses on the relationship between Nolte and his young charge, which is a one-way street since it's Mechlowicz who needs healing, not Nolte's serene grease monkey.

If Peaceful Warrior were not based on a true story, I might have an easier time believing it.

...Nick Nolte is suitably enigmatic as the mysterious old guy...

...gives equal time to New Agey psychoprattle and the voyeuristic spectacle of college gymnasts putting their tight-as-a-drum physiques through sweaty, intricate exhibitions of precision physical prowess.

Nolte plays ''Socrates,'' a magical blue-collar Buddha who gruffly Yodas a college gymnast named Dan Millman (Scott Mechlowicz).