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Million Dollar Baby Movie

Yesterday I saw the movie “Million Dollar Baby”, which starred: Hilary Swank, Clint Eastwood, Morgan Freeman, Jay Baruchel, Christina Cox.

The storyline involved the following: “Painfully estranged from his daughter, old-school boxing trainer Frankie Dunn (Clint Eastwood) hasn't let anyone get too close to him in a very long time. Even his best friend and former trainee Scrap (Morgan Freeman), who manages Frankie's rundown boxing gym, has a tough time getting through. Everything changes, however, when Maggie Fitzgerald (Hilary Swank) walks into the gym. A spitfire looking for someone to believe in her, Maggie also has a painful past. But with unshakable willpower, along with some tremendous raw talent, Maggie has found that her love for boxing could be her ticket to a happy life--and she wants Frankie to turn her into a champion. Naturally, he doesn't want to have anything to do with her and doesn't want to take that risk, especially with a girl.Yet Frankie is soon won over by the young boxer's dogged resolve to be the best. The road to glory isn't easily paved for these two stubborn mules, but Maggie and Frankie rediscover a sense of family they both thought they'd lost long ago. Theirs is a bond that will carry them through one of the hardest journeys either one of them will ever take. Oh, yeah, you're going to need a wad of tissues for this one.”

I give the movie a “B+”, and the movie is worth the price of an admission ticket, a large popcorn and a medium soft drink. The acting in the movie was excellent, and dialogue was again excellent. But the storyline kept leading into different directions, and, thus I like the first half of the movie. The second half of the movie was less satisfactory, because I was not prepared for such a dramatic shift. It turned from a happy movie into a dark movie without a satisfactory ending.

posted by Frank LaFountaine @ 8:43 AM