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| 1000000 Dollar Baby | |
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 Theatrical release affiche | |
| Directed by | Clint Eastwood |
| Screenplay by | Paul Haggis |
| Story by | F.X. Toole |
| Based on | Rope Burns: Stories from the Corner by F.Ten. Toole |
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| Starring |
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| Cinematography | Tom Stern |
| Edited past | Joel Cox |
| Music past | Clint Eastwood |
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| Distributed by | Warner Bros. Pictures |
| Release date |
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| Running fourth dimension | 132 minutes |
| Country | Usa |
| Language | English language |
| Budget | $xxx million[1] [2] |
| Box part | $216.8 million[3] |
Million Dollar Infant is a 2004 American sports drama movie directed, co-produced, scored by and starring Clint Eastwood from a screenplay written by Paul Haggis, based on short stories by F.10. Toole, the pen name of fight manager and cutman Jerry Boyd. It also stars Hilary Swank, and Morgan Freeman. The moving picture follows Margaret "Maggie" Fitzgerald (Swank), an underdog apprentice boxer who is helped past an underappreciated boxing trainer (Eastwood) to achieve her dream of becoming a professional.
Million Dollar Baby was theatrically released on December 15, 2004, by Warner Bros. Pictures. Information technology received disquisitional acclaim and grossed $216.8 million worldwide. The film garnered seven nominations at the 77th Academy Awards and won four: All-time Picture, Best Director, All-time Extra (for Swank), and Best Supporting Player (for Freeman).
Plot [edit]
Margaret "Maggie" Fitzgerald, a waitress from the Ozarks, shows up at the Striking Pit, a rundown Los Angeles gym endemic and operated by Frankie Dunn. Dunn is a cantankerous Irish-American trainer, revealed to exist estranged past his own daughter. Maggie asks Frankie to train her, but he refuses every bit he does not train women and she is too old to begin a boxing career. Eddie "Chip-Iron" Dupris, Frankie'south friend and employee — the film'due south narrator — encourages though and helps Maggie. Frankie'due south prize prospect, "Big Willie" Little, signs with successful director Mickey Mack after becoming impatient with Frankie rejecting offers for a title bout. Frankie then reluctantly agrees to train Maggie.
Maggie fights her way upwards in the women's amateur boxing sectionalization with Frankie's coaching. Since she has earned a reputation for quick KOs, Frankie must resort to bribery to become other managers to put their trainee fighters up confronting her. Scrap, concerned when Frankie rejects several offers for big fights, arranges a meeting for Maggie with Mickey Mack but, out of loyalty to Frankie, she declines. Frankie bestows Maggie a Gaelic nickname, embroidered on her battle robe, Mo Chuisle (misspelled in the film as "mo cuishle"), but does non tell her its meaning. The two travel to Europe as she continues to win; Maggie eventually saves up enough of her winnings to buy her mother a house, but her mother berates Maggie for endangering her government assistance, challenge that everyone dorsum dwelling house is laughing at her.
Frankie is finally willing to arrange a title fight. He secures Maggie a $one million match in Las Vegas against the WBA women's welterweight champion, Billie "The Blue Acquit" Osterman, a German language ex-prostitute who has a reputation equally an unpunished dirty fighter. Maggie begins to dominate the fight, but Billie knocks her out with an illegal sucker dial from behind after the bell rings to end the round. Maggie lands hard on her corner stool, breaking her neck and leaving her a ventilator-dependent quadriplegic.
While in the hospital, Maggie looks forward to a visit from her family. They arrive simply after outset touring Disneyland and Universal Studios Hollywood. Accompanied past an attorney, their sole business organization is to get Maggie's assets transferred to them. Disgusted, she orders them to leave and threatens to written report their welfare fraud if they try to contact her once again.
Maggie presently develops bedsores and undergoes an amputation for an infected leg. She then asks Frankie to aid her die, declaring that she got everything she wanted out of life. Frankie refuses, and so Maggie afterwards bites through her tongue repeatedly in an attempt to bleed to death. Knowing the fatherly affection Frankie has developed for Maggie, Frankie's priest warns him that he would never find himself again if he were to go through with Maggie'southward request. Frankie then sneaks into the infirmary one dark, unaware that Scrap is watching from the shadows. Just before administering a fatal injection of adrenaline, he tells Maggie the meaning of "mo cuishle": "my darling, and my blood." He never returns to the gym. Scrap'southward narration is revealed to exist a letter to Frankie's girl, informing her of her father's bodily true character.
Bandage [edit]
- Clint Eastwood as Frankie Dunn, a gruff merely well-meaning elderly boxing trainer.
- Hilary Swank as Mary Margaret "Maggie" Fitzgerald, a determined, aspiring boxer trained up by Frankie Dunn.
- Morgan Freeman as Eddie "Chip-Fe" Dupris, Dunn's gym assistant and former boxer.
- Jay Baruchel equally Dangerous Dillard Fighting Flippo Bam-Bam Barch or "Danger", a simpleton would-be boxer.
- Mike Colter equally "Large" Willie Niggling, a boxer whom Dunn has trained for years.
- Lucia Rijker as Billie "The Bluish Bear" Osterman, a quondam prostitute and fell boxer.
- BrÃan F. O'Byrne as Male parent Horvak, the priest of the church building which Dunn attends.
- Anthony Mackie as Shawrelle Berry, an overzealous boxer and frequent tenant of Dunn'due south gym.
- Margo Martindale as Earline Fitzgerald, Maggie's selfish mother.
- Marcus Chait every bit J.D. Fitzgerald, Maggie'southward incarcerated brother.
- Riki Lindhome as Mardell Fitzgerald, Maggie's welfare-cheating sis.
- Michael Peña every bit Omar, a boxer and Shawrelle's best friend.
- Benito Martinez as Billie'southward manager.
- Grant Fifty. Roberts as Billie's cut man.
Development and production [edit]
After being fired from the television serial Family Police force, Haggis wrote the script on spec, and information technology took iv years to sell it.[4] [5] The flick was stuck in development hell for years before it was shot. Several studios rejected the projection even when Eastwood signed on as thespian and director. Even Warner Bros., Eastwood's longtime abode base, would not agree to a $30 1000000 budget. Eastwood persuaded Lakeshore Entertainment'southward Tom Rosenberg to put up one-half the upkeep (every bit well equally handle foreign distribution), with Warner Bros. contributing the rest. Eastwood shot the film in less than 40 days between June and July 2004.[1] [2] Filming took identify in Los Angeles and film sets at Warner Bros. Studios.[ii] The term 'Meg Dollar Baby' was from the nose art of a World War II Consolidated B-24 Liberator heavy bomber.[ citation needed ] The titular phrase 'million dollar baby' was used as an insult during pre-fight publicity by Sonny Liston to Muhammad Ali, the latter of whom was an underdog at the fourth dimension. Eastwood had his daughter Morgan Colette announced in a cursory role as a girl who waves to Swank's character at a gas station.[6] [7]
Eastwood had confidence in Swank's acting, just upon seeing Swank's small physique, he had concerns, "I just thought, 'Yeah, this gal would be not bad. If nosotros can become her trained up. If we can become a fiddling bit more than bulk on her, to make her await like a fighter'...She was like a feather. But what happened is, she had this cracking work ethic."[viii]
Consequently, to prepare for her office, Swank underwent extensive training in the ring and weight room, gaining 19 pounds of muscle, aided by professional trainer Grant L Roberts. She trained for virtually five hours every day, winding upwards with a potentially life-threatening staphylococcus infection. She did not tell Eastwood about the infection because she thought it would be out of grapheme for Maggie.[8]
Reception [edit]
Box office [edit]
Million Dollar Babe initially had a express release, opening in 8 theaters in December 2004.[9] In its later wide release opening, the film earned $12,265,482 in North America and quickly became a box-function hit both domestically and internationally. Information technology grossed $216,763,646 in theaters; $100,492,203 in the U.s.a., and $116,271,443 in other territories. The film played in theaters for half-dozen and a half months.[iii]
Disquisitional response [edit]
On Rotten Tomatoes Million Dollar Babe has an approval rating of 90% based on 269 reviews, with an average rating of 8.forty/10. The website's critical consensus reads, "Clint Eastwood'south assured management - combined with knockout performances from Hilary Swank and Morgan Freeman - help Meg Dollar Baby to transcend its clichés, and the result is deeply heartfelt and moving."[10] On Metacritic information technology has a weighted average score of 86 out of 100, based on reviews from 39 critics, indicating "universal acclamation".[11] Audiences polled by CinemaScore gave the film a class "A" on an A+ to F scale.[12]
Roger Ebert of the Chicago Sun Times gave the picture show four stars and stated that "Clint Eastwood's One thousand thousand Dollar Baby is a masterpiece, pure and elementary," listing information technology as the best film of 2004.[xiii] Michael Medved stated: "My principal objection to 1000000 Dollar Babe ever centered on its misleading marketing, and endeavor by Warner Brothers to sell information technology as a motion picture nearly a female Rocky, with barely a hint of the pitch-dark substance that led Andrew Sarris of the New York Observer ... to declare that 'no movie in my memory has depressed me more than than Million Dollar Babe.'"[ citation needed ] [14]
In early 2005, the movie sparked controversy when some disability rights activists protested the catastrophe. The Disability Rights Educational activity Fund released a statement about the film in February 2005 that included the following: "Perhaps the most cardinal stereotype fueling disability prejudice is the mistaken supposition inherent in the bulletin of the film that the quality of life of individuals with disabilities is unquestionably not worth living. This stereotype is contradicted by the personal experience of many thousands of people with significant disabilities in this country and around the world who view our own lives every bit ordinary and normal. It is further contradicted by plenty of difficult data. Inquiry overwhelmingly shows that people with disabilities detect satisfaction in our lives to the aforementioned degree, or greater, than does the general public."[xv] The Chicago Tribune reported that protests against the picture show past disability activists occurred in Chicago, Berkeley, and other cities, and that Clint Eastwood had previously lobbied for weakening provisions of the Americans with Disabilities Act.[16] [17]
Wesley J. Smith in The Weekly Standard also criticized the film for its ending and for missed opportunities; Smith said, "The movie could accept ended with Maggie triumphing once over again, perhaps having obtained an educational activity and becoming a teacher; or, opening a business organisation managing boxers; or mayhap, receiving a standing ovation as an inspirational speaker."[18]
Eastwood responded to the criticism by proverb the film was about the American dream.[nineteen] In an interview with the Los Angeles Times, Eastwood distanced himself from the actions of characters in his films, noting, "I've gone around in movies blowing people away with a .44 Magnum. But that doesn't mean I think that's a proper thing to practice".[twenty] Roger Ebert stated that "a movie is not good or bad because of its content, but considering of how information technology handles its content. Million Dollar Infant is classical in the make clean, clear, strong lines of its story and characters, and had an enormous emotional impact".[21]
The Gaelic nickname for Swank'southward graphic symbol comes from the original phrase a chuisle mo chroÃ, meaning "O pulse of my heart"; one critic noted that the use of Gaelic in the moving picture led to some involvement in the language and the phrase.[22]
Acme 10 lists [edit]
Million Dollar Baby was listed on many critics' pinnacle ten lists for films released in 2004.[23]
- 1st – A.O. Scott & Manohla Dargis, The New York Times
- 1st – Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times
- 1st – Lou Lumenick, New York Mail
- 2nd – Richard Schickel, Time
- 2nd – Lisa Schwarzbaum, Entertainment Weekly
- 2nd – Jonathan Rosenbaum, Chicago Reader
- 2nd – Claudia Puig, USA Today
- second – Keith Phipps, The A.V. Society [24]
- 2nd – Ty Burr & Wesley Morris, Boston Globe
- third – Kevin Thomas & Kenneth Turan, Los Angeles Times
- 3rd – Jack Matthews, New York Daily News
- tertiary – Glenn Kenny, Premiere
- third – Carla Meyer & Ruthie Stein, San Francisco Relate
- 3rd – Peter Travers, Rolling Stone
- quaternary – Mike Clark, Usa Today
- quaternary – David Ansen, Newsweek
- 4th – Jami Bernard, New York Daily News
- 5th – Robert Koehler, Variety
- 5th – James Berardinelli, Reelviews
- 6th – Stephen Holden, The New York Times
- 6th – Scott Tobias, The A.V. Club [24]
- sixth – Richard Roeper, Ebert & Roeper [25]
- ninth – Desson Thompson, Washington Post
- 10th – Nathan Rabin, The A.Five. Club [24]
- Top 10 (listed alphabetically) – Ron Stringer, L.A. Weekly
- Meridian 10 (listed alphabetically) – David Sterritt, Christian Science Monitor
- Peak ten (listed alphabetically)– Shawn Levy, Portland Oregonian
- Top 10 (listed alphabetically) – Carrie Rickey & Steven Rea, Philadelphia Inquirer
Accolades [edit]
Million Dollar Baby received the award for All-time Picture of 2004 at the 77th Academy Awards. Clint Eastwood was awarded his second All-time Manager Oscar for the film, and also received a Best Actor in a Leading Role nomination. Hilary Swank and Morgan Freeman received Best Actress in a Leading Role and Best Role player in a Supporting Office Oscars, respectively. Joel Cox, Eastwood's editor for many years, was nominated for Best Film Editing, and Paul Haggis was nominated for the Best Adapted Screenplay award.
The film was named the third "Best Film of the 21st Century Then Far" in 2017 past The New York Times.[26]
| Award | Category | Bailiwick | Result |
|---|---|---|---|
| Academy Honor | All-time Picture show | Clint Eastwood, Albert Due south. Ruddy and Tom Rosenberg | Won |
| Best Director | Clint Eastwood | Won | |
| Best Histrion | Nominated | ||
| Best Extra | Hilary Swank | Won | |
| Best Supporting Actor | Morgan Freeman | Won | |
| Best Adapted Screenplay | Paul Haggis | Nominated | |
| All-time Film Editing | Joel Cox | Nominated | |
| ACE Eddie | Best Editing | Nominated | |
| Amanda Accolade | Best Foreign Characteristic Flick | Clint Eastwood | Nominated |
| American Screenwriters Clan | Discover Screenwriting Accolade | Paul Haggis | Won |
| Fine art Directors Guild Award | Best Gimmicky Characteristic Moving picture | Henry Bumstead Jack Grand. Taylor Jr. | Nominated |
| Billie Honour | Best Film | Clint Eastwood Albert South. Ruby-red Tom Rosenberg Paul Haggis | Nominated |
| Blackness Reel Honour | Best Supporting Actor | Morgan Freeman | Nominated |
| Broadcast Film Critics Clan Award | All-time Extra | Hilary Swank | Won |
| All-time Supporting Player | Morgan Freeman | Nominated | |
| Best Director | Clint Eastwood | Nominated | |
| Best Film | Clint Eastwood Albert S. Ruddy Tom Rosenberg Paul Haggis | Nominated | |
| Casting Society of America Laurels | All-time Casting for Characteristic Film: Drama | Phyllis Huffman | Nominated |
| César Awards | Best Foreign Movie | Clint Eastwood Albert S. Red Tom Rosenberg Paul Haggis | Won |
| Chicago Picture show Critics Clan Award | Best Director | Clint Eastwood | Won |
| David di Donatello Awards | Best Strange Film | Clint Eastwood | Won |
| Directors Lodge of America Honour | Outstanding Directing | Clint Eastwood | Won |
| Director's Guild of United kingdom of great britain and northern ireland | Outstanding Manager | Clint Eastwood | Nominated |
| ESPY Award | Best Sports Flick | Clint Eastwood Albert S. Scarlet Tom Rosenberg Paul Haggis | Nominated |
| Florida Film Critics Circle Award | Best Extra | Hilary Swank | Won |
| Golden Earth Honour | Best Actress | Won | |
| All-time Director | Clint Eastwood | Won | |
| Best Supporting Actor | Morgan Freeman | Nominated | |
| Best Movement Picture - Drama | Clint Eastwood Albert S. Cherry-red Tom Rosenberg Paul Haggis | Nominated | |
| Best Original Score | Clint Eastwood | Nominated | |
| Grammy Award | Best Score Soundtrack for Visual Media | Nominated | |
| Picture show Sound Editors Award | Best Sound Editing (Sound Effects & Foley) | Alar Robert Murray Bub Asman David Grimaldi Jason King | Nominated |
| MTV Motion-picture show Honour | Best Female Performance | Hilary Swank | Nominated |
| NAACP Image Award | Outstanding Supporting Actor | Morgan Freeman | Won |
| National Board of Review Award | Best Film | Clint Eastwood Albert S. Ruddy Tom Rosenberg Paul Haggis | Nominated |
| Best Director | Clint Eastwood | Nominated | |
| Best Player | Nominated | ||
| New York Picture Critics Circle Award | All-time Director | Won | |
| Producers Order of America Award | Best Theatrical Motion Flick | Clint Eastwood Albert S. Ruddy Tom Rosenberg Paul Haggis | Nominated |
| Phoenix Picture show Critics Lodge Award | Best Actress | Hilary Swank | Won |
| All-time Role player | Clint Eastwood | Nominated | |
| Best Director | Nominated | ||
| Best Supporting Thespian | Morgan Freeman | Nominated | |
| Best Film | Clint Eastwood Albert S. Ruddy Tom Rosenberg Paul Haggis | Nominated | |
| Satellite Award | Best Extra | Hilary Swank | Won |
| Best Adjusted Screenplay | Paul Haggis | Won | |
| Screen Actors Guild Award | All-time Actress | Hilary Swank | Won |
| All-time Supporting Actor | Morgan Freeman | Won | |
| Best Cast | Nominated | ||
Dwelling media [edit]
The film was released on VHS and DVD on July 12, 2005, and all editions of the Region i DVD, except for the "Palatial Edition", came with a paperback copy of the volume Rope Burns: Stories from the Corner. An HD DVD release was issued on Apr 18, 2006.[27] The Blu-ray Disc version was released on November xiv, 2006.[28] It was the first Best Film winner released on either high-definition optical disc format in the U.Southward.; it and Unforgiven (also starring Eastwood and Freeman) were the just ones released in the U.Due south. on Hd DVD prior to the outset one released in the U.S. on Blu-ray, Crash.[27] [28] The motion-picture show is also available online through video on demand and almost major streaming platforms.
See besides [edit]
- Movie theater of the United States
- List of American films of 2004
References [edit]
- ^ a b Eliot (2009), p. 309
- ^ a b c Hughes, p. 156
- ^ a b "1000000 Dollar Baby (2004)". Box Office Mojo . Retrieved 1 January 2021.
- ^ Leibowitz, Ed (i February 2008). "The Fabulist: Paul Haggis Reflects on His Career Los Angeles Magazine". Los Angeles Magazine.
- ^ Cath Clarke (six January 2011). "Paul Haggis: 'You lot have to question your beliefs'". The Guardian.
- ^ Hughes, p. 157
- ^ Fold 3 WWII Crew photos
- ^ a b Rebecca Leung (March two, 2005). "Hilary Swank: Oscar Gold – 60 Minutes". CBS News. Retrieved September 9, 2010. [ expressionless link ]
- ^ Hughes, p. 160
- ^ "Million Dollar Infant (2004)". Rotten Tomatoes. Fandango Media. Retrieved Apr ane, 2021.
- ^ "Million Dollar Baby Reviews". Metacritic. CBS Interactive. Retrieved 27 Feb 2019.
- ^ "1000000 DOLLAR Babe (2005) A". CinemaScore. Archived from the original on 2018-12-20.
- ^ Ebert, Roger (seven January 2005). "Million Dollar Babe". Chicago Lord's day Times . Retrieved 26 Nov 2007 – via RogerEbert.com. [ dead link ]
- ^ Medved, Michael. "My '1000000 Dollar' Answer," OpinionJournal/Dow Jones & Visitor, Inc. (17 Feb 2005). Archived at TownHall.com.
- ^ "Meg Dollar Baby Built on Prejudice about People with Disabilities". Retrieved 2021-02-xv .
- ^ Tribune, Chicago. "Why 'Million Dollar Infant' infuriates the disabled". chicagotribune.com . Retrieved 2021-02-15 .
- ^ Writers, Maria Alicia Gaura, Alan Gathright, Chronicle Staff (2000-09-thirty). "Eastwood Wins Arrange Over ADA / Merely jury says resort needs improvements". SFGATE . Retrieved 2021-02-15 .
- ^ Smith, Wesley J. (March 2, 2005). "A Million Dollar Miss". Weekly Standard – via CBS News.
- ^ Rich, Frank (February 13, 2005). "How Muddy Harry Turned Commie". The New York Times.
- ^ Lee, Chris (January 27, 2005). "'Babe' plot twist angers activists". Los Angeles Times.
- ^ Roger Ebert (29 Jan 2005). "Critics have no right to play spoiler". Chicago Sun-Times . Retrieved one January 2021.
- ^ Davis, Wes (26 February 2005). "Opinion | Fighting Words (Published 2005)". The New York Times. Archived from the original on 2015-05-29.
- ^ "Metacritic: 2004 Movie Critic Top X Lists". Jan 3, 2007. Archived from the original on January 3, 2007.
- ^ a b c Murray, Noel. "The Year In Film: 2004". Film.
- ^ "Ebert and Roeper Top 10 Lists (2000-2005)". www.innermind.com . Retrieved April thirty, 2018.
- ^ Dargis, Manohla; Scott, A.O. (nine June 2017). "The 25 Best Films of the 21st Century...So Far". The New York Times . Retrieved 8 July 2017.
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- Bibliography
- Eliot, Marc (2009). American Insubordinate: The Life of Clint Eastwood . Harmony Books. ISBN978-0-307-33688-0.
- Hughes, Howard (2009). Aim for the Heart. London: I.B. Tauris. ISBN978-1-84511-902-vii.
External links [edit]
- Million Dollar Baby at IMDb
- Million Dollar Baby at the TCM Flick Database
- Million Dollar Baby at AllMovie
- Million Dollar Babe at Box Office Mojo
- 1000000 Dollar Baby at Rotten Tomatoes
- Meg Dollar Infant at Metacritic
- Us News commodity: Million Dollar Maybe, A real-life version of Maggie Fitzgerald
- Another possible real-life Maggie Fitzgerald
- 1000000 Dollar Baby at the Sports Movie Database
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