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Million Dollar Baby
1/28/05 - PG-13 - 137m
Clint Eastwood - Frankie Dunn
Hilary Swank - Maggie Fitzgerald
Morgan Freeman - Eddie "Scrap-Iron" Dupris
Director: Clint Eastwood
Screenplay by: Paul Haggis
Studio: Warner Bros.
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Nutshell: Want-to-be boxer Maggie Fitzgerald (Hilary Swank) has a singular dream… she wants-to-be-a-real boxer. She has the talent, the drive, and the ambition… all that is left now is the direction. Enter long-time fight manager and cutman Frankie Dunn (Clint Eastwood). Only he doesn’t enter Maggie’s life as much she enters his, cause you see Frankie ain’t much interested in becoming her manager, and as in everything else that has happened in Maggie’s life, she gonna have to fight for this too.
Didn’t really have much interest in seeing this one. Not a big boxing fan, never could understand the attraction in two guys (or girls) getting into the ring and just beating the piss out of each other. Not to say I haven’t seen boxing movies before, cause I have, just didn’t really have a desire to see another one. But, it was the cast that intrigued me. The last time I saw ‘Clint Eastwood’ and ‘Morgan Freeman’ together was in “The Unforgiven”, and that film made it into my “Top 5” favorite westerns of all time, but… it’s still a boxing movie. Then of course there was ‘Hilary Swank’, haven’t seen many of her films I must admit, but I have heard she is a wonderful actor. So what did I have to lose but two hours of my life…
Well those two hours, and this movie, is what I would have missed, and that would have been the tragedy. The funny thing is it isn’t a boxing movie, yeah sure it centers on boxing, but it’s much more than that. It’s about life, the good, the bad, and the indifferent, and the fight that each of us endures every single day, and in this case, in and out of the ring.
The story was subtle in it’s telling, and the acting near flawless by all involved. I found myself completely absorbed in the tale. Although the story may have run a little long in parts, still a superb film, and deserved in all the nominations it has received.
Well Done…
Lyn
