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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.
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MILLION DOLLAR BABY is classic American filmmaking by a man at the top of his game. Director/actor/producer/composer Clint Eastwood proves once again that he is American film's true renaissance man.
Bent on becoming a professional boxer, plucky 31-year-old Missouri waitress Maggie Fitzgerald sets foot in silver-haired trainer Frankie Dunn's run-down gym. Instead, Maggie's request for permission to train receives a flat refusal from the cantankerous, coarse, and overly complicated old-school boxing guru.
Release Date. United States. December 5, 2004 (New York City, New York, premiere) Canada. December 15, 2004. United States. December 15, 2004 (limited) United Kingdom. January 14, 2005.
Writer Paul Haggis was directing Crash (2004) and was scheduled to direct this movie when Clint Eastwood (who was to act only) asked to direct it as well. Haggis agreed to step aside as director.
Maggie Fitzgerald : Momma, you take Mardell and JD and get home 'fore I tell that lawyer there that you were so worried about your welfare you never signed those house papers like you were supposed to. So anytime I feel like it I can sell that house from under your fat, lazy, hillbilly ass.
Million Dollar Baby (2004) - For this film, Clint Eastwood became the 12th person to direct multiple Best Picture Oscar-winning films, having also directed Unforgiven (1992).
Million Dollar Baby is based on various short stories entitled, Rope Burns: Stories from the Corner written by F.X. Toole, the pen name of boxing trainer Jerry Boyd [1930-2002]. The screenplay was written by Paul Haggis. Million Dollar Baby won the 2004 Academy Award for Best Motion Picture.
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.
