Million Dollar Baby PG-13
Beyond his silence, there is a past. Beyond her dreams, there is a feeling. Beyond hope, there is a memory. Beyond their journey, there is a love.
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DVD Details
- Rated: PG-13
- Run Time: 2 hours, 12 minutes
- Video: Color
- Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
- Released: June 1, 2010
- Originally Released: 2004
- Label: Warner Home Video
Performers, Cast and Crew:
Starring | Clint Eastwood, Hilary Swank & Morgan Freeman | |
Performer: | Jay Baruchel, Christina Cox, Lucia Rijker, Anthony Mackie, Michael Peña, Riki Lindhome, Bruce MacVittie & Margo Martindale | |
Directed by | Clint Eastwood | |
Edited by | Joel Cox | |
Screenwriting by | Paul Haggis | |
Composition by | Clint Eastwood | |
Produced by | Tom Rosenberg, Albert S. Ruddy, Paul Haggis & Clint Eastwood | |
Director of Photography: | Tom Stern | |
Executive Production by | Robert Lorenz & Gary Lucchesi |
Major Awards:
Academy Awards 2004 -
Best Actress: Hilary Swank
Academy Awards 2004 -
Best Director: Clint Eastwood
Academy Awards 2004 -
Best Picture: Not Applicable
Academy Awards 2004 -
Best Supporting Actor: Morgan Freeman
Entertainment Reviews:
The washed-out colour photography, the seedy urban locations, the peripheral low-life characters all give the film a pleasingly noir feel.
Sight and Sound
Anyone who doesn't believe that Clint Eastwood is one of the best film-makers in America ought to see Million Dollar Baby.
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London Evening Standard
[A] stunningly drawn map of the human heart disguised as a boxing yarn....[Eastwood's] stripped -down performance -- as powerful as anything he's ever done -- has a rugged, haunting beauty. The same goes for the movie.
Rolling Stone
[A] remarkably appealing success story full of heart and humor and poignancy, with Swank as winning as she's ever been.
Premiere
Rating: 3/5 --
Million Dollar Baby is aesthetically and emotionally a dark movie that ultimately falls short because every rough edge is softened by a cliché. Here, Eastwood throws a handful of sugar in for good measure, too.
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The List
The Tom Stern cinematography captures striking shots, some of which are highly contrasted or in silhouette, and heighten the emotion during pivotal moments throughout the film.
Widescreen Review
[T]he best movie released by a major Hollywood studio this year....It is a quiet, intimately scaled three-person drama directed in a patient, easygoing style...
New York Times
Product Description:
Released a little over a year after the grand success of his Oscar-winning feature MYSTIC RIVER, Clint Eastwood returns to the director's chair for MILLION DOLLAR BABY. 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 previous career was blighted by an injury to one of his prize fighters, Scrap (Morgan Freeman), who lost the sight in his right eye during a particularly brutal bout; Scrap now wiles away the hours working as a cleaner in Frankie's gym. Wary of similar occurrences being inflicted on the prestigious young talent that passes before him, Frankie lets a succession of great boxers slip through his fingers. But when the brash, confident young boxer Maggie Fitzgerald (Hilary Swank) strides into the gym, Frankie's life is irretrievably altered. Initially refusing to train Maggie due to her gender and age, Frankie relents when faced with her tenacity, spirit, and burning ambition. The combination of Maggie's talent and Frankie's tutelage paves the way for the adroit fighter to rise steadily through the ranks of women's boxing, with the unlikely coupling forming a genuinely touching bond in the process.
Clint Eastwood has crafted a boxing film fit to stand alongside classics such as RAGING BULL and ROCKY with MILLION DOLLAR BABY. The scenes between Eastwood and Freeman are a delight to watch, with the two old hands pulling off masterfully understated performances as a couple of men teetering on the brink of failure. Likewise, Swank puts in a powerful turn as Maggie, further emphasizing her penchant for unusual roles, and perhaps even bettering her incredible, Oscar-winning showing as Teena Brandon in BOYS DON'T CRY.
Clint Eastwood has crafted a boxing film fit to stand alongside classics such as RAGING BULL and ROCKY with MILLION DOLLAR BABY. The scenes between Eastwood and Freeman are a delight to watch, with the two old hands pulling off masterfully understated performances as a couple of men teetering on the brink of failure. Likewise, Swank puts in a powerful turn as Maggie, further emphasizing her penchant for unusual roles, and perhaps even bettering her incredible, Oscar-winning showing as Teena Brandon in BOYS DON'T CRY.
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