Million Dollar Baby

4.75
    Million Dollar Baby
    2004

    Synopsis

    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 EastwoodFrankie Dunn
    • Hilary SwankMaggie Fitzgerald
    • Morgan FreemanEddie 'Scrap-Iron' Dupris
    • Jay BaruchelDanger Barch
    • Mike ColterBig Willie Little
    • Lucia RijkerBillie 'The Blue Bear'
    • Brían F. O'ByrneFather Horvak
    • Anthony MackieShawrelle Berry
    • Margo MartindaleEarline Fitzgerald
    • Riki LindhomeMardell Fitzgerald

    Recommendations

    • 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

      Newsweek

      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

      The New Yorker

      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."
    • 100

      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.
    • 100

      The New York Times

      With its careful, unassuming naturalism, its visual thrift and its emotional directness, Million Dollar Baby feels at once contemporary and classical, a work of utter mastery that at the same time has nothing in particular to prove.
    • 88

      Rolling Stone

      The knockout punch comes from Eastwood. His stripped-down performance -- as powerful as anything he's ever done -- has a rugged, haunting beauty. The same goes for the movie.

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