Million Dollar Baby (2004)
Average Rating: 8.3/10
Reviews Counted: 228
Fresh: 207 | Rotten: 21
Clint Eastwood's assured direction - combined with knockout performances from Hilary Swank and Morgan Freeman - help Million Dollar Baby to transcend its clichés, and the result is deeply heartfelt and moving.
Average Rating: 8.6/10
Critic Reviews: 48
Fresh: 45 | Rotten: 3
Clint Eastwood's assured direction - combined with knockout performances from Hilary Swank and Morgan Freeman - help Million Dollar Baby to transcend its clichés, and the result is deeply heartfelt and moving.
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Frankie Dunn (Clint Eastwood) is a veteran boxing trainer who has devoted his life to the ring and has precious little to show for it; his daughter never answers his letters, and a fighter he's groomed into contender status has paid him back by signing with another manager, leaving Frankie high and dry. His best friend and faithful employee Eddie Dupris is a former fighter who Frankie trained. In his last fight, Eddie suffered a severe injury, a fact that brings Frankie great guilt. One day,
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Cast
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Clint Eastwood
Frankie Dunn -
Hilary Swank
Maggie Fitzgerald -
Morgan Freeman
Eddie Scrap-Iron Dup... -
Anthony Mackie
Shawrelle Berry -
Jay Baruchel
Danger Barch -
Mike Colter
Big Willie Little -
Lucia Rijker
Billie "The Blue Bea... -
Brian F. O'Byrne
Father Horvak -
Margo Martindale
Earline Fitzgerald -
Riki Lindhome
Mardell Fitzgerald -
Ned Eisenberg
Sally Mendoza -
Brian Finney
Irish Fan #1 -
Ted Grossman
Ring Doctor #2 -
Bruce MacVittie
Mickey Mack -
Tom McCleister
Lawyer -
Marco Rodriguez
Second (at Vegas Fig... -
Spice Williams
Irish Fan #2 -
Susan Krebs
Rehab Nurse -
Steven M. Porter
Ref #6 -
Miguel Pérez
Restaurant Owner -
Joe D'Angerio
Cut Man -
Mark Chait
J.D. Fitzgerald -
Michael Peña
Omar -
Erica Grant
Nurse -
Mark Thomason
Radio Commentator -
Kim Strauss
Irish Fan #3 -
Benito Martinez
Billie's Manager -
Jamison Yang
Paramedic -
Ming Lo
Rehab Doctor -
V.J. Foster
Ref #3 -
Dave A. Powledge
Counterman at Diner -
Naveen
Pakistani -
Bruce Forman
Guitarist -
Morgan Eastwood
Little Girl in Truck -
Dean Familton
Ref #1 -
Dr. Louis Moret
Ref #2 -
Jon D. Scholore II
Ref #4 -
Marty Sammon
Ref #5 -
Ray Corona
Ref #7 -
Jim Cantafio
Ring Doctor #1 -
Roy Nugent
Fan in Vegas -
Don Familton
Ring Announcer -
Rob Maron
Irish Fan #4 -
Kirsten Berman
Irish Fan #5 -
Sunshine Chantal Par...
Rehab Nurse #2 -
Kim Dannenberg
Rehab Nurse #3 -
Eddie Bates
Rehab Resident -
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All Critics (228) | Top Critics (48) | Fresh (207) | Rotten (21) | DVD (38)
It's impressive, in the sense that a sucker-punch impresses itself on your skull.
Top CriticIt is thoughtful, unfashionable, measured, mostly honest, sometimes clumsy or remote, often exciting, occasionally moving and eventually surprising. It's correct.
Barely a year after the release of Mystic River, Clint Eastwood delivers a second consecutive drama that fearlessly probes the shadows of human morality without falling back on easy answers.
Perhaps the director's most touching, most elegiac work yet, Million Dollar Baby is a film that does both the expected and the unexpected, that has the nerve and the will to be as pitiless as it is sentimental.
Like Eastwood, it's a relic that dazzles you with its footwork, daring and class.
Clint Eastwood's Million Dollar Baby is a masterpiece, pure and simple, deep and true.
Violent Oscar winner is inspiring but too intense for kids.
Clint Eastwood can do it all.
"Million Dollar Baby" is a tragic film about an innately paternal man's desperate need to overcome his own emotional traps and the loyal girl who facilitates his growth by her steely will and stubborn drive.
This is an actor's piece, and Eastwood, Freeman, and Swank all deliver performances equal to or perhaps greater than any they've done in recent memory.
Million Dollar Baby adds to Clint Eastwood's legacy in ways we might not have expected. It explores emotional terrain as he hasn't done before, and it gives him a kind of role that he has never had before.
Just when you think he should be retiring, Clint Eastwood throws another one-two punch.
This is Eastwood's weakest work in years, perhaps because it yokes itself to a hot-button theme instead of a story that resonates.
A devastating act of mercy for one character may very well cost the soul of another.
After the somewhat hysterical Mystic River - a flawed work dominated by a powerhouse performance from Sean Penn - this is a far more balanced piece, anchored by three terrific turns and some lean direction from Eastwood.
Easily Mr. Eastwood's best film since Unforgiven.
Million Dollar Baby is a strong contender, but it suffers a TKO in the last round.
what's great about Eastwood, is how he turns cliche to cinematic archetype, and throws in a modern twist at the same time
To steal from Ali, this one floats like a butterfly and stings like a bee.
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- Frankie Dunn: You got big holes in your socks.
- Eddie Scrap-Iron Dupris: Oh, no, they're not that big.
- Frankie Dunn: Didn't I give you some money for some new ones.
- Eddie Scrap-Iron Dupris: These are my sleepin' socks. My feet like a little air at night
- Frankie Dunn: But how come you're wearin' them in the daytime then.
- Eddie Scrap-Iron Dupris: Because my daytime socks got too many holes in them.
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- Eddie Scrap-Iron Dupris: Don't say that. Maggie walked through that door with nothin' but guts. No chance in the world of bein' what she needed to be. It was because of you that she was fightin' the championship of the world. You did it. People die everyday, Frankie - moppin' floors, washin' dishes and you know their last thought is? I never got my shot. Because of you, Maggie got her shot. If she dies today that you know what her last thought would be? I think I did it all right.
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- Frankie Dunn: Mo cuishle. It means my darlin'. My blood.
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- Eddie Scrap-Iron Dupris: Frankie likes to say that the boxin' is a unnatural act, that everything in boxin' in backwards: sometimes the best way to deliver a punch is to step back... But step back too far and you ain't fightin' at all.
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- Frankie Dunn: I think someone should count to ten.
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- Maggie Fitzgerald: Fly there, drive back.
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