Million Dollar Baby
MILLION DOLLAR BABY (12)
D: Clint Eastwood
Warner Bros./Lakeshore/Malpaso (Clint Eastwood, Albert
S. Ruddy, Tom Rosenberg & Paul Haggis)
US 2004
132 mins
Sports/Drama
W: Paul Haggis [based on stories from
"Rope Burns" by F. X. Toole]
DP: Tom Stern
Ed: Joel Cox
Mus: Clint Eastwood
PD: Henry Bumstead
Clint Eastwood (Frankie
Dunn), Hilary Swank (Maggie Fitzgerald), Morgan Freeman (Eddie 'Scrap Iron' Dupris), Anthony Mackie (Shawrelle Berry), Jay Baruchel (Danger Barch), Mike
Colter (Big Willie Little)
Million Dollar Baby is a boxing picture which will
leave you absolutely floored.
Ageing boxing coach Frankie Dunn (Eastwood)
reluctantly trains a trailer-trash waitress into realising her dream of becoming a prizefighter, but there comes a cruel twist of fate in the championship bout which changes their
lives.
Hilary Swank delivers a strong performance as Maggie
Fitzgerald, winning a Best Actress Oscar in the process, whilst Clint Eastwood gives one of the strongest screen performances in his illustrious career. Morgan Freeman received a Best
Supporting Actor Oscar for his performance as a retired fighter, whilst the film became the underdog winner of the Academy Award for Best Picture for 2004, and quite rightly
so.
9/10
