Storyline
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.
Directors
Cast
Michael Peña, Miguel Pérez, Erica Grant, Morgan Eastwood, Jim Cantafio, Riki Lindhome, Michael Saglimbeni, Clint Eastwood, Hilary Swank, Morgan Freeman, Jay Baruchel, Mike Colter, Lucia Rijker, Brían F. O'Byrne, Anthony Mackie, Margo Martindale, Benito Martinez, Bruce MacVittie, David Powledge, Joe D'Angerio, Marcus Chait, Tom McCleister, Naveen, Jamison Yang, Susan Krebs, V.J. Foster, Steven M. Porter, Ming Lo, 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, Robert McMurrer, Sean O'Kane, Vladimir Rajcic, Marty Sammon, Robert Maron
Trailer
Reviews
100
The Hollywood Reporter
Under Eastwood's painstakingly stripped-down direction -- his filmmaking has become the cinematic equivalent of Hemingway's spare though precise prose -- the story emerges as that rarest of birds, an uplifting tragedy.
100
Variety
Staying at the top of his game when most of his contemporaries have long since hung up their gloves, Clint Eastwood delivers another knockout punch with Million Dollar Baby.
100
Eastwood takes the audience to raw, profoundly moving places. If you fear strong emotions, this is not for you. But if you want to see Hollywood filmmaking at its most potent, Eastwood has delivered the real deal.
100
Has a beautifully modulated sadness that's almost musical. Eastwood once made a movie about Charlie Parker ("Bird"), but this picture has the smoothly melancholic tones of Coleman Hawkins at his greatest.
100
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."
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