Million Dollar Baby
Million Dollar Baby
Overview
Despondent over a painful estrangement from his daughter, trainer Frankie Dunn isn't prepared for boxer Maggie Fitzgerald to enter his life. But Maggie's determined to go pro and to convince Dunn and his cohort to help her.
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Cast
Clint Eastwood
Hilary Swank
Morgan Freeman
Jay Baruchel
Mike Colter
Lucia Rijker
Brían F. O'Byrne
Anthony Mackie
Margo Martindale
Riki Lindhome
Michael Peña
Benito Martinez
Bruce MacVittie
David Powledge
Joe D'Angerio
Marcus Chait
Tom McCleister
Erica Grant
Naveen
Morgan Eastwood
Jamison Yang
Susan Krebs
V.J. Foster
Steven M. Porter
Ming Lo
Miguel Pérez
Jim Cantafio
Ted Grossman
Ned Eisenberg
Marco Rodríguez
Mark Thomason
Brian T. Finney
Spice Williams-Crosby
Kim Strauss
Kirsten Berman
Jimmy Alioto
Jason Williams
Nina Avetisova
Michael Bentt
Bruce Gerard Brown
McKay Stewart
Jude Ciccolella
Kimberly Estrada
Sean LoGrasso
Maher McClung
Michael Saglimbeni
Sean O'Kane
Vladimir Rajcic
Marty Sammon
Robert Maron
Crew
Clint Eastwood
Clint Eastwood
Clint Eastwood
Lennie Niehaus
Lennie Niehaus
Henry Bumstead
Joel Cox
Phyllis Huffman
Jack G. Taylor Jr.
Bill Coe
Bub Asman
Donald Harris
Paul Haggis
Paul Haggis
Tom Rosenberg
Albert S. Ruddy
David Potaux-Razel
Tom Stern
Deborah Hopper
Gary Lucchesi
Robert Lorenz
Robert Lorenz
Jonathan Fuh
Richard C. Goddard
Kyle Eastwood
Robert Fernandez
Gloria D'Alessandro
David Grimaldi
Tim Moore
Buddy Van Horn
Brian Bilson
Juno J. Ellis
Gary D. Roach
Charles Saldana
Carol A. O'Connell
Robert Moresco
Ryan Craig
Geoffrey Miclat
Steve Riley
F.X. Toole
Mimi Lesseos
Liz Radley
Ross Dunkerley
Michael Sexton
Lynda Foote
Sean Higgins
John T. Cucci
Pam Cartmel
Gary A. Lee
Lucy Coldsnow-Smith
Stephen S. Campanelli
Stephen S. Campanelli
Merie Weismiller Wallace
Kurt Smith
Mable Lawson-McCrary
Judith M. Brown
Terry Kramer
Darin McCormick-Millett
William Cawley
Deena Adair
Nancy Hancock
Michael Muscarella
John Schacht
Nicholas Korda
Nicholas Korda
Walt Martin
Mark Thomason
James R. Lord
Michael Cipriano
T. Daniel Scaringi
Karen Shaw
Donald Murphy
James Ashwill
James D. Tittle
John Lacy
Robert Aaron Brown
Charles Ramirez
James D. Wickman
Mo Henry
Ann Culotta
Nancy G. James
Trevor Carroll-Coe
Paulina Quaranta
Robert Silcock
Scooter Perrotta
Dillin Craig
Keith Dillin
Doug Wall
Jason Gondek
Matthew A. Del Ruth
Thomas J. O'Connell
William A. Barry III
Ante Dugandzic
Bobby McMahan
Tony Hobbs
Katie Carroll
Scott M. Anderson
Christine Fegley
Brian Magerkurth
Elisa Ann Conant
Rose Mesa
Lucy Ramirez-Ewart
Don Dinkins
Susan Hartmann
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Taglines: Beyond his silence, there is a past. Beyond her dreams, there is a feeling. Beyond hope, there is a memory. Beyond their journey, there is a love.
Based on Rope Burns: Stories from the Corner by F.X. Toole.
A determined woman works with a hardened boxing trainer to become a professional.
In this sports drama, the audience is waiting for an incredible story with a story about a simple young girl who since childhood dreamed of becoming a professional boxer. It’s no secret that not every girl can fulfill this dream, even having all the physical data and dedication. And if you start to seriously get involved in boxing, then it is better to do it since childhood, so that there would be a meager, but still real chance to build a career. The whole problem is. that the main character is already well over twenty. And before that, she worked as an ordinary modest waitress.
Having earned enough money, she goes to the local gym to start training. The hall belonged to an experienced coach, under whose leadership champions had already appeared. Seeing the brand new in his hall, he was very surprised. He recommended that she give up the whole thing, as she has not the slightest chance of success. But she continued to go to training every day, despite the sad financial situation and many hours of work shifts. It so impresses the coach that he decides to become a mentor to the heroine. But does she have at least some chance of success?
Creators: Paul Haggis
Director: Clint Eastwood,
Star Cast: Clint Eastwood, Hilary Swank, Morgan Freeman, Jay Baruchel, Mike Colter, Brían F. O’Byrne
Producer (s): Clint Eastwood, Albert S. Ruddy, Tom Rosenberg, Paul Haggis
Cinematographer: Tom Stern
Music: Clint Eastwood
Production House: Lakeshore Entertainment, Malpaso Productions
Original network / Official Sites: Warner Bros. Pictures,
Release Year: 28 January 2005 (USA)
Runtime: 132 min
Genres: Drama, Sport
Country: USA,
Language: English, Irish
Subtitles: English, Bengali
Margaret “Maggie” Fitzgerald (Hilary Swank), a waitress from a Missouri town in the Ozarks, shows up at the Hit Pit, a run-down Los Angeles gym owned and operated by Frankie Dunn (Clint Eastwood), an old cantankerous Irish-American boxing trainer. Maggie asks Frankie to train her, but he initially refuses. Maggie works out tirelessly each day in his gym, even after Frankie tells her she’s “too old” to begin a boxing career at her age. Eddie “Scrap-Iron” Dupris (Morgan Freeman), Frankie’s friend and employee—and the film’s narrator—encourages and helps her.
Frankie’s prize prospect, “Big Willie” Little, signs with successful manager Mickey Mack after becoming impatient with Frankie rejecting offers for a championship bout. With prodding from Scrap and impressed with her persistence, Frankie reluctantly agrees to train Maggie. He warns her that he will teach her only the basics and then find her a manager. Other than Maggie and his employees, the only person Frankie has contact with is a local priest, with whom he spars verbally at daily Mass.
Before her first fight, Frankie leaves Maggie with a random manager in his gym, much to her dismay; upon being told by Scrap that said manager deliberately put her up against his best girl (coaching the novice to lose) to give her an easy win, Frankie rejoins Maggie in the middle of the bout and coaches her instead to an unforeseen victory. A natural, she fights her way up in the women’s amateur boxing division with Frankie’s coaching, winning many of her lightweight bouts with first-round knockouts. Since Maggie has earned a reputation for her KOs, Frankie must resort to bribery to get other managers to put their trainee fighters up against her.
Eventually, Frankie takes a risk by putting her in the junior welterweight class, where her nose is broken in her first match. Frankie comes to establish a paternal bond with Maggie, who substitutes for his estranged daughter. Scrap, concerned when Frankie rejects several offers for big fights, arranges a meeting for her with Mickey Mack at a diner on her 33rd birthday. Out of loyalty, she declines. Frankie begrudgingly accepts a fight for her against a top-ranked opponent in the UK, where he bestows a Gaelic nickname on her. The two travel to Europe as she continues to win; Maggie eventually saves up enough of her winnings to buy her mother a house, but her mother berates Maggie for endangering her government aid, claiming that everyone back home is laughing at her.
Frankie is finally willing to arrange a title fight. He secures Maggie a $1 million match in Las Vegas, Nevada, against the WBA women’s welterweight champion, Billie “The Blue Bear” Osterman, a German ex-prostitute who has a reputation as an unpunished dirty fighter. Overcoming a shaky start, Maggie begins to dominate the fight, but Billie knocks her out with an illegal sucker punch from behind after the bell rings to end the round. Before Frankie can pull the corner stool out of the way (which was inappropriately placed on its side by Frankie’s assistant), Maggie lands hard on it, breaking her neck and leaving her a ventilator-dependent quadriplegic.
Frankie is shown experiencing the first three of the five stages of grief: first seeking multiple doctors’ opinions in denial, then blaming Scrap in anger, and later trying to bargain with God through prayer.
In a medical rehabilitation facility, Maggie looks forward to a visit from her family, but they arrive days later only after touring Disneyland and Universal Studios Hollywood, accompanied by an attorney; their only concern is to get Maggie’s assets transferred to them. Disgusted, Maggie insultingly rebukes them and orders them to leave, threatening to inform the IRS of her mother and sister’s welfare frauds if they ever try to contact her again; shocked, the family leaves.
As the days pass, Maggie develops bedsores and undergoes an amputation for an infected leg. She asks a favor of Frankie: to help her die, declaring that she got everything she wanted out of life. A horrified Frankie refuses, and Maggie later bites her tongue repeatedly in an attempt to bleed to death, but the medical staff saves her and takes measures to prevent further suicide attempts. The priest Frankie has harassed for 23 years, Father Horvak, warns him that he would never find himself again if he were to go through with Maggie’s wishes.
Frankie sneaks into the hospital one night, unaware that Scrap is watching from the shadows. Just before administering a fatal injection of adrenaline, he finally tells Maggie the meaning of a nickname he gave her, Mo Chuisle (misspelled in the film as “mo cuishle”): Irish for “my darling, and my blood” (literally, “my pulse”). He never returns to the gym. Scrap’s narration is revealed to be a letter to Frankie’s daughter, informing her of her father’s true character. The last shot of the film shows Frankie sitting at the counter of a diner where Maggie once took him, and after having a homemade lemon meringue pie with her, said: “Now I can die and go to heaven.”
