Despondent over a painful estrangement from his daughter, trainer Frankie Dunn isn't prepared for boxer Maggie Fitzgerald to enter his life. But Maggie's determined to go pro and to convince Dunn and his cohort to help her.
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Clint Eastwood
Frankie Dunn
Hilary Swank
Maggie Fitzgerald
Morgan Freeman
Eddie Scrap-Iron Dupris
Jay Baruchel
Danger Barch
Mike Colter
Big Willie Little
Lucia Rijker
Billie 'The Blue Bear'
Brían F. O'Byrne
Father Horvak
Anthony Mackie
Shawrelle Berry
Margo Martindale
Earline Fitzgerald
Riki Lindhome
Mardell Fitzgerald
Director
Clint Eastwood
Screenplay
Paul Haggis
Tagline
"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."
Status
Released
Original Language
EN
Budget
$30,000,000
Revenue
$216,763,646
Production
Lakeshore Entertainment, Malpaso Productions, Epsilon Motion Pictures, Albert S. Ruddy Productions, Warner Bros. Pictures
Wuchak
December 19, 2018
***Female “Rocky” with a downbeat and contradictory close*** Released in 2004 and directed by Clint Eastwood, “Million Dollar Baby” stars Eastwood as a cantankerous boxing trainer who owns a working class gym in Los Angeles, which is maintained by one of his former boxers, the narrator of the story (Morgan Freeman). A waitress from the sticks of Missouri (Hilary Swank) shows up and asks that Fr...
r96sk
February 9, 2022
Unreal! I didn't expect <em>'Million Dollar Baby'</em> to be so astonishingly brilliant. I've said it many a time before but for full context, I do not read up about films before watching them - aside from making sure the film isn't part of a franchise, checking the run time and seeing the genre - so I was expecting this to be a cliché-filled, but still great, sports flick. It's so much more th...
The Movie Mob
November 23, 2022
**Million Dollar Baby is an extremely well-done film that takes an abrupt turn to deal with incredibly sobering subjects that are definitely not what I thought I signed up for.** I know it’s supposedly a masterpiece, and I will lose some cred for saying this, but Million Dollar Baby was a dreadful movie. I spent the first half of the film falling in love with the hopeful, talented, and inspirin...
CinemaSerf
January 25, 2026
The curmudgeonly “Frankie” (Clint Eastwood) runs a boxing gym with his stalwart “Eddie” (Morgan Freeman) that’s full of testosterone-charged no-hopers like “Berry” (Anthony Mackie) all going through the motions. The only exception is the young “Barch” (Jay Baruchel) who fancies himself as the best welterweight in the world, but who clearly couldn’t pull a pint let alone a punch. One afternoon, the...
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