| Million Dollar Baby (2005)
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| Front Cover |
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| Jay Baruchel |
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| Marcus Chait |
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| Mike Colter |
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| Joe D'Angerio |
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| Morgan Eastwood |
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| Morgan Freeman |
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| Erica Grant |
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| Riki Lindhome |
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| Bruce MacVittie |
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| Anthony Mackie |
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| Movie Details |
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| Language |
English |
| Audience Rating |
PG-13 (Parental Guidance Suggested) |
| Running Time |
132 mins |
| Country |
USA |
| Color |
Color |
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| Plot |
| 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 |
| Personal Details |
| Seen It |
Yes |
| Index |
286 |
| Collection Status |
In Collection |
| Links |
Amazon US
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| Product Details |
| Edition |
Full Screen Edition |
| Format |
DVD |
| Region |
Region 1 |
| Screen Ratio |
1.33:1 |
| UPC (Barcode) |
012569593220 |
| Release Date |
7/12/2005 |
| Subtitles |
English; French; Spanish |
| Nr of Disks/Tapes |
1 |
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