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2009
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Dec 14, 2004 · Clint Eastwood's "Million Dollar Baby" is a masterpiece, pure and simple, deep and true. It tells the story of an aging fight trainer and a hillbilly girl who thinks she can be a boxer. It is narrated by a former boxer who is the trainer's best friend. But it's not a boxing movie. It is a movie about a boxer.
Dec 15, 2004 · Feb 15, 2021 Full Review Alix Turner Ready Steady Cut Million Dollar Baby boasts wonderful acting and character writing, but a frustrating treatment of themes within a plot adapted from two short ...
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- Clint Eastwood
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The Movie Review: 'Million Dollar Baby'. Even before Clint Eastwood's Million Dollar Baby won the Oscar for Best Picture, it united critics across the spectrum, from middlebrow to aesthete, in ...
The adaptation by Paul Haggis is excellent. "Million Dollar Baby" has a rhythm of its own, seldom seen in boxing formula pictures. Thanks to Tom Stern almost black and white cinematography, this sordid world of second class gyms in the poor areas of the inner city, makes the film more interesting in its texture.
Dec 15, 2004 · Summary Two retired boxers who run a Los Angeles gym are caught off guard when a woman approaches them with her dream of stepping into the ring. Drama. Sport. Directed By: Clint Eastwood. Written By: Paul Haggis, F.X. Toole.
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Jun 2, 2004 · Perhaps "Million Dollar Baby" should be seen as if it emerged from a movie-movie world Eastwood evidently still inhabits — the double-bill post-war 1950s and '60s, when Don Siegel and Robert Aldrich could make strong, conventional B movies that never hoped for either awards or monster receipts, just an audience with more of an interest in old-school yarn spinning than spectacle or effect.
Edit page. Million Dollar Baby: Directed by Clint Eastwood. With Clint Eastwood, Hilary Swank, Morgan Freeman, Jay Baruchel. Frankie, an ill-tempered old coach, reluctantly agrees to train aspiring boxer Maggie. Impressed with her determination and talent, he helps her become the best and the two soon form a close bond.
