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Director: | Clint Eastwood |
Studio: | Warner Home Video |
Producer: | Clint Eastwood, Albert S. Ruddy, Gary Lucchesi, Paul Haggis, Robert Lorenz |
Writer: | Paul Haggis, F.X. Toole |
Rated: | PG-13 |
Date Added: | 2011-12-10 |
Last Seen: | 2013-10-20 |
ASIN: | B003ASLJQI |
UPC: | 0883929126200 |
Price: | $12.98 |
Genre: | Drama |
Release: | 2010-06-01 |
Location: | 0965 |
Duration: | 132 |
Picture Format: | Widescreen |
Aspect Ratio: | 1.77:1 |
Sound: | AC-3 |
Languages: | English, French |
Subtitles: | English, French, Spanish |
Summary: Clint Eastwood's 25th film as a director, "Million Dollar Baby" stands proudly with "Unforgiven" and "Mystic River" as the masterwork of a great American filmmaker. In an age of bloated spectacle and computer-generated effects extravaganzas, Eastwood turns an elegant screenplay by Paul Haggis (adapted from the book "Rope Burns: Stories From the Corner" by F.X. Toole, a pseudonym for veteran boxing manager Jerry Boyd) into a simple, humanitarian example of classical filmmaking, as deeply felt in its heart-wrenching emotions as it is streamlined in its character-driven storytelling. In the course of developing powerful bonds between "white-trash" Missouri waitress and aspiring boxer Maggie Fitzgerald (Hilary Swank), her grizzled, reluctant trainer Frankie Dunn (Eastwood), and Frankie's best friend and training-gym partner Eddie "Scrap-Iron" Dupris (Morgan Freeman), 74-year-old Eastwood mines gold from each and every character, resulting in stellar work from his well-chosen cast. Containing deep reserves of love, loss, and the universal desire for something better in hard-scrabble lives, "Million Dollar Baby" emerged, quietly and gracefully, as one of the most acclaimed films of 2004, released just in time to earn an abundance of year-end accolades, all of them well-deserved. "--Jeff Shannon"
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