Million Dollar Baby (2004)

Directed by

Clint Eastwood

Genre

drama film, boxing film, buddy film

Country

United States

Runtime

2h 12m

Rated

PG-13

Rating

8.0 of 10 from 10,424 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A poor waitress in her thirties persuades a grizzled boxing trainer to take her on as a fighter. With his help, she works her way up from nothing toward a professional career.

understatedemotionalmeditativeheavyinspirationalmelancholicslow-burngrounded

What happens

Million Dollar Baby is a 2004 American sports drama film directed, co-produced, scored by and starring Clint Eastwood from a screenplay by Paul Haggis. It is based on stories from the 2000 collection Rope Burns: Stories from the Corner by F.X. Toole, the pen name of fight manager and cutman Jerry Boyd, and also stars Hilary Swank and Morgan Freeman. The film follows Margaret "Maggie" Fitzgerald (Swank), an underdog amateur boxer who is helped by an underappreciated boxing trainer (Eastwood) to achieve her dream of becoming a professional. Million Dollar Baby premiered in New York City on December 5, 2004, and was theatrically released on December 15, 2004, by Warner Bros. Pictures domestically, with Lakeshore Entertainment's international unit handling international sales. It received critical acclaim and was also a commercial success, grossing $217 million worldwide against a $30 million budget. The film garnered seven nominations at the 77th Academy Awards and won four: Best Picture, Best Director, Best Actress (for Swank), and Best Supporting Actor (for Freeman). The National Board of Review and the American Film Institute named Million Dollar Baby one of the top-ten films of 2004. It has since been cited as one of the best films of the 2000s, the 21st century and of all-time. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

Trailer

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