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Genres:
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Drama /
Sport /
Music
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Director:
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Clint Eastwood
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Actors:
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Riki Lindhome,
Joe D'Angerio,
Benito Martinez,
Mike Colter,
Bruce MacVittie,
Lucia Rijker,
David Powledge,
Clint Eastwood,
Hilary Swank,
Morgan Freeman,
Jay Baruchel,
Brian F. O'Byrne,
Anthony Mackie,
Margo Martindale,
Michael Peña
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Duration:
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132 min.
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Rating:
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(8.2/10)115
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Plot Summary:
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Released a undersized as a remainder a year after the grand success of his Oscar-winning feature 'Mystic River', Clint Eastwood returns to the director's chair for 'Million Dollar Babe'. Eastwood also stars in the role of Frankie Dunn, a down-on-his-luck former boxing manager who spends the twilight years of his life running a small, dilapidated gym in downtown Los Angeles.
Frankie's past career was blighted about an offence to one of his receipts fighters, Crumb (Morgan Freeman), who wanton the spy in his justice perception during a particularly brutal boxing-match; Scrap stylish wiles away the hours working as a cleaner in Frankie's gym. Wary of similar occurrences being inflicted on the pre-eminent young aptitude that passes in front of him, Frankie lets a succession of great boxers slip through his fingers. But when the reckless, courageous young boxer Maggie Fitzgerald (Hilary Swank) strides into the gym, Frankie's life is irretrievably altered.
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Initially refusing to train Maggie fitting to her gender and age, Frankie relents when faced with her tenacity, sense, and ablaze goal. The combination of Maggie's talent and Frankie's tutelage paves the trail for the adroit fighter to begin steadily through the ranks of women's boxing, with the unlikely coupling forming a genuinely pitiful bond in the process.
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Million Dollar Baby
Kenneth TuranWhat can be said about Clint Eastwood that hasn't been said before?
That he's American film's last and best classicist, a 74-year-old director who's aged better than a Sideways Pinot Noir? That his increasingly fearless and idiosyncratic choice of material has made him more of an independent filmmaker than half the people at Sundance? That he continues to find ways to surprise audiences yet remain inescapably himself? It's all true, and never more so than in Eastwood's latest, Million Dollar Baby.
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. A tale of the power and cost of dreams set ...
A tragic but beautiful movie
A truly wonderful movie with terrific performances from everyone involved.
Hilary Swank (as Maggie) delivers a blistering performance; full of grit, raw emotion, power and just the right amount of pathos.
But, it’s Clint Eastwood as Frankie Dunn who steals the movie for me. He delivers a tour de force of such sensitivity and compassion that it’s very very easy to forget that he was the man with no name and Harry Callahan.
Behind Frankie’s bluster, lies a beautiful heart. He shows it in private when he sees yet another returned letter from his estranged daughter, the yearning almost palpable in his face. He resists Maggie’s desire to be a boxer for a long time, but when he falls, boy he falls big time! She becomes the daughter he is missing and the c...
Million Dollar Baby
Mike ClarkBy now, Clint Eastwood has nothing to prove to moviegoers. Like his spaghetti Western heroes did to the last pistolero of the day, he has gunned down every preconception about him.
Yet, here he is, still reinventing himself with Million Dollar Baby, a grim knockout of a boxing movie with multiple jolts.
Eastwood directs and stars in one of his top performances, not as the boxer, obviously, but as a gym operator.
With still-imposing biceps and a gruff voice, he has the authority to make us follow his lead, yet the character is not without flaws. Weekly letters to an estranged daughter get returned. And he's so confrontational to a much younger priest during daily visits to church that the clearly exasperated cleric finally declares, "Don't come ...
Million Dollar Baby
A knockout, affecting drama of an ageing boxing trainer, virtually waiting since cessation, his commonsensical sidekick, and a puerile woman hoping by reason of a life; Eastwood wrings true-blue emotion from a description that goes in unexpected directions and the performances are
Million Dollar Baby
Weighing in with a heavyweight guide that tops anything he has done since 1992's Unforgiven, Clint Eastwood's boxing roman-fleuve Million Dollar Coddle is a relentlessly unsentimental melodrama that delivers its solidity-blows when you least await them. After the sort of hysterical Mystic River - a flawed work dominated by a powerhouse performance from Sean Penn - this is a afar more balanced production, anchored by three terrific turns and some endanger direction from Eastwood. To let slip away the secrets of the intrigue would be terrorist. Satiate it to say it's a story yon redemption that embraces dogma, family and popular affairs. Eastwood plays grizzled boxing trainer Frankie Dunn, owner of The Hit Gouge match gym in downtown Los Angeles. Laced with guil...
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