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Million Dollar Baby, 2004

Starring: Hilary Swank, Morgan Freeman

Directed by: Clint Eastwood

Written by: Paul Haggis

Language: English, Irish Gaelic

Country: USA

Runtime: 132 min

MPAA Rating: PG_13

Rating:8.2

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The mood of Million Dollar Baby is bleak, emotional, and contemplative. The plot centers around feminism, an athlete and trainer, and underdogs. It is a drama and sports movie. Stylistically, Million Dollar Baby has a Hollywood tone, stars a strong female character, and includes a voice over. In approach, it is serious and realistic. The setting is Los Angeles. Million Dollar Baby happens in contemporary times. It is derived from a short story. The movie is known for being a modern classic, an Oscar winner, and a blockbuster. Note that Million Dollar Baby includes violent content.

Summary of Million Dollar Baby

Released a little over a year after the grand success of his Oscar-winning feature MYSTIC RIVER, Clint Eastwood returns to the director's chair for MILLION DOLLAR BABY. Eastwood also stars, in the role of Frankie Dunn, a down-on-his-luck former boxing manager who spends the twilight years of his life running a small, dilapidated gym in downtown Los Angeles. Frankie's previous career was blighted by an injury to one of his prize fighters, Scrap (Morgan Freeman), who lost the sight in his right eye during a particularly brutal bout; Scrap now wiles away the hours working as a cleaner in Frankie's gym. Wary of similar occurrences being inflicted on the prestigious young talent that passes before him, Frankie lets a succession of great boxers slip through his fingers. But when the brash, confident young boxer Maggie Fitzgerald (Hilary Swank) strides into the gym, Frankie's life is irretrievably altered. Initially refusing to train Maggie due to her gender and age, Frankie relents when faced with her tenacity, spirit, and burning ambition. The combination of Maggie's talent and Frankie's tutelage paves the way for the adroit fighter to rise steadily through the ranks of women's boxing, with the unlikely coupling forming a genuinely touching bond in the process.

Clint Eastwood has crafted a boxing film fit to stand alongside classics such as RAGING BULL and ROCKY with MILLION DOLLAR BABY. The scenes between Eastwood and Freeman are a delight to watch, with the two old hands pulling off masterfully understated performances as a couple of men teetering on the brink of failure. Likewise, Swank puts in a powerful turn as Maggie, further emphasizing her penchant for unusual roles, and perhaps even bettering her incredible, Oscar-winning showing as Teena Brandon in BOYS DON'T CRY.

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Language:	English, Irish Gaelic
Country:	USA
Release date:	15 December 2004
Runtime:	132 min
Awards:	Academy Awards

Awards

Hilary Swank for Best Actress at the 2004 Academy Awards

Clint Eastwood for Best Director at the 2004 Academy Awards

Awarded Best Picture at the 2004 Academy Awards

Morgan Freeman for Best Supporting Actor at the 2004 Academy Awards

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Hilary Swank

as Maggie Fitzgerald

Morgan Freeman

as Eddie Scrap-Iron Dupris

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Anthony Mackie as Shawrelle Berry in Million Dollar Baby (2004)

Jay Baruchel as Danger Barch and Morgan Freeman as Scrap in Million Dollar Baby (2004)

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Clint Eastwood as Frankie and Hilary Swank as Maggie in Million Dollar Baby (2004)

Mike Colter as Big Willie and Clint Eastwood as Frankie in Million Dollar Baby (2004)

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Chicago Tribune

Achieves a mellowness and melancholy that recalls the jazzy dissonance of director (and here, composer) Eastwood's best work: "The Outlaw Josey Wales," "Bird," "Unforgiven" and "Mystic River." Full Review

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by: Michael Wilmington

Los Angeles Times

Perhaps the director's most touching, most elegiac work yet, Million Dollar Baby is a film that does both the expected and the unexpected, that has the nerve and the will to be as pitiless as it is sentimental. Full Review

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by: Kenneth Turan

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Funny, Uplifting, Sad, Traumatic, Exhilarating

This film touches on so many of your emotions that it's hard not to feel touched in some way. Absolute masterpiece, from the thrilling first hour to the incredibly sad final hour this film is incredible. Read and rate it

20.October.2011
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by: Yesiamaduck
Yesiamaduck rated this movie10/10Must See

Amazing

Normally, I don't praise 'acting' in a movie because I believe that if the story is good you don't care how good the acting is anyway. But for this movie I have to say that I think Clint Eastwood and Hilary Swank did an truly brilliant job of... Read and rate it

26.May.2011
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by: yinhong
yinhong rated this movie10/10Must See

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