Million Dollar Baby (DVD) Reviews

Would-be trailer trash Hilary Swank one day walks into Clint Eastwood's inner city gym and tries to persuade him to train her to be a boxer. As Swank develops as a boxer, Eastwood and partner Morgan Freeman start to see her potential and start to put her into big fights around the country and the world. As the film plays out the final ...

Released in 2005 and directed by Clint Eastwood, this film tells the story of Maggie Fitzgerlald, an aspiring boxer. The story is simple, Maggie wants to succeed but faces barriers about her sex, age, strength and commitment. I didn't watch this film on release as the subject matter just didn't appeal to me but I'm very glad I did. ...

Frank has his own gym and trains all sorts of boxers, good and bad, but so far all of them have been men. The day Maggie walks into his gym and asks him to train her, his world is turned upside down. His estranged relationship with his daughter is brought to the front of his mind and along with Maggie's dysfunctional family the two ...

Million Dollar Baby is a drama film directed by Clint Eastwood. The screenplay was written by Paul Haggis, based on a story by F.X. Toole. It was released in 2004. This film is about an amateur female boxer, Maggie Fitzgerald (Hilary Swank), who has a dream to become a professional boxer. She approaches a boxing trainer, Frankie Dunn ...

"Wow". That was exactly what came out of my mouth after watching this surprisingly brilliant, movie. I had expected to watch a nice quirky film with my favourite actor (Morgan Freeman), with a nice bit of action thrown in, but Clint Eastwood (who starred in and directs this movie) delivers a thrilling film. THE STORYLINE. When ...

Introduction ______________ Million Dollar Baby won 4 Oscars in 2004 1. Best Picture 2. Best Director 3. Best Actress (Hilary Swank) 4. Best Supporting Actor (Morgan Freeman) A moving picture with a twist at the end. Main theme of this film is one man's attempt to put things right and an ...

I don't usually like watching films with Clint Eastwood. I don't know what it is about him but I've never enjoyed watching him. Until now the only exception to this was a film called 'A Perfect World' which also starred Kevin Costner. I had heard good things about this film and so despite having Eastwood in a starring role I wanted to see ...

There are a few films that I’ve been put off watching simply because of the subject matter. I find that boxing is one of those subjects. I’ve seen Raging Bull but beyond that I’ve not really been interested in films including the sport. That was until I came across Million Dollar Baby. I think it was more to do with the director, Clint Eastwood ...

Introduction Few won’t have heard of this film, which walked away with four academy awards for best motion picture, best achievement in direction, best actress in a leading role for Hilary Swank and best actor in a supporting role for Morgan Freeman. Boxing is really not my thing and the thought of watching a whole film about it really didn’t ...

Following ‘Mystic River’ was never going to be an easy thing to do, even for a director of Clint Eastwood’s stature. Like ‘Mystic River’ ‘Million Dollar Baby’ (henceforth known as MDB!) is a film that after 15 minutes you think you have it pegged. You can see where it is going and what is going to happen, you’ve seen the plot so often ...

Sometimes films win major Oscars and quite frankly they don’t deserve them. In recent years such formulaic entries such as A Beautiful Mind have walked away with top honours while far more original and challenging films leave with nothing. I thought that the same could be said for Million Dollar Baby, I had read comments that the film wasn’t up to ...