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Million Dollar Baby (Three-Disc Collector's Edition)
Million Dollar Baby
Three-Disc Collector's Edition
Actors: Ned Eisenberg, Brian Finney, Ted Grossman, Bruce MacVittie, Margo Martindale
Genres: Drama
PG-13     2005     2hr 12min

"I DON'T TRAIN GIRLS", trainer Frankie Dunn growls. But something's different about the spirited boxing hopeful who shows up daily at Dunn's gym. All she wants is a fighting chance. Clint Eastwood plays Dunn and directs, p...  more »
     
     

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Actors: Ned Eisenberg, Brian Finney, Ted Grossman, Bruce MacVittie, Margo Martindale
Genres: Drama
Sub-Genres: Drama
Studio: Warner Home Video
Format: DVD - Color,Widescreen - Closed-captioned,Dubbed,Subtitled
DVD Release Date: 07/12/2005
Original Release Date: 01/28/2005
Theatrical Release Date: 01/28/2005
Release Year: 2005
Run Time: 2hr 12min
Screens: Color,Widescreen
Number of Discs: 3
SwapaDVD Credits: 3
Total Copies: 7
Members Wishing: 0
Edition: Box set,Collector's Edition
MPAA Rating: PG-13 (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Languages: English, French
Subtitles: English, Spanish, French
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Member Movie Reviews

K. K. (GAMER)
Reviewed on 3/28/2023...
Seemed like a good story but the ending was no good twice over.
Tony B. (Hollywood) from MINNEAPOLIS, MN
Reviewed on 2/13/2017...
Original article
I just saw Million Dollar Baby and my apologies for probably being the last one on the planet to do so. It was a fantastic movie except for the ending! Yes, those things happen in real life, but Maggie is too resilient and too full of life to not be able to fight through it and recover.
I like happy endings, so I think Clint and the cast should get back together again and film a new ending for the movie – Maggie fights back, recovers, gets a re-match, and knocks out the former champ and truly becomes a Million Dollar Baby!
I was so disappointed at the ending of the movie I was going to get rid of it and never watch it again, but the acting was so good, and the movie so well done, and Hilary Swank was such an inspiration that I had to figure out a compromise. I love to watch great movies over and over again so decided I would watch this one right up to the point of the championship fight, and then turn it off and make my own ending.
Maggie, you are magnificent and fight back with every ounce of courage from the very depths of your soul, you need to work twice as hard as you ever did to make a recovery, and Dunn is torn about putting you back in the ring again and the scene builds to an emotional crescendo – then Scrap comes in and says his brilliant lines about it being better to try, than not to try at all.
The fight goes the full length, and everyone is sitting on the edge of their seats cheering with clenched fists for Maggie, a rollercoaster ride to the finish when Maggie lands the final blow - and after a 10 count that lasts nearly forever, with flashbacks of her trials and tribulations, in a final moment of glory becomes the new champion – and an inspiration and champion in all of our hearts.
Well I’m probably just being unrealistic or idealistic, or silly, but I really think they should re-do the ending, but if they don’t - I have.
So I’m keeping Million Dollar Baby in my permanent movie collection with my addendum!
Gayle V. from CLARKSVILLE, TN
Reviewed on 6/2/2012...
I knew the ending before I saw this, so I was already braced for it. I hate when a movie manipulates your morality about something - like euthanasia in this case. I know life is not black and white but it would have been nice for God to just take her rather than Frankie feeling forced into it. Regardless, it was a great movie - the 3 main actors are all awesome, as expected and, even though I have no interest in boxing, it was interesting to see that side of things.
Ursula S. from BRANFORD, CT
Reviewed on 2/25/2010...
One of the best Clint Eastwood, Hilary Swank and Morgan Freeman movies. The acting and directing were "superb".

Movie Reviews

Powerful, believable performances fuel this moving film
Jonathan Appleseed | 12/25/2004
(5 out of 5 stars)

"Hillary Swank (Margaret Fitzgerald), who proved her athleticism in her first major role, The Next Karate Kid, demonstrated it again, pummeling a heavy bag with a power left on which I wouldn't want to be on the receiving end. She's very convincing in this movie - both as a young woman from humble beginnings who wants to make a better life for herself, and as a boxer. In Million Dollar Baby, she returns to the visceral emotional range that left us so deeply moved in Boy's Don't Cry.

Clint Eastwood (Frankie Dunn), who has proved himself repeatedly, has perhaps turned in the best performance of his career. At times irascible, intellectual, mournful, instructive, reflective, passionate - in every manifestation, he reaches you. He was brilliant.

And Morgan Freeman is, well, Morgan Freeman. As the narrator of the story, and an actor within it, he lends a soft-spoken touch that ameliorates some of the film's darker elements. He also lent the film a certain amount of boxing sagacity, as he spoke in non-technical and sometimes quasi-technical terms of the basics of boxing.

This film ain't no Rocky. It has an intelligence and compassion that Rocky (and virtually every boxing film ever made, save perhaps Raging Bull) couldn't think to have. Beyond that, it actually has better fight sequences. More often than in most boxing films - certainly the very poor choreography of the Rocky fight sequences - the punches looked and felt real, or as real as "fake" can make them.

Margaret introduces herself to Frankie after a fight and asks him to train her. He turns her down flat, saying that he doesn't train girls. Given her pluckiness, she appears at his gym the next day, punching a heavy bag with all of the skill, style and fluidity of Pinocchio. Finally he agrees to train her ("finally" takes a while, and watching it come to fruition, the subtle changes in Eastwood's character, is a real treat to watch), and soon she is ready for her first fight.

Here's the only similarity to Rocky: she turns out to be a natural, with a wicked left hook and overhand right (at least that I could see) and is knocking out all of her opponents in the first round. Some might think that this is, perhaps, a bit much. However, in the sport of women's boxing, such a thing isn't uncommon. PLEASE don't think that I'm saying women are not good boxers or don't have the same abilities that men do. It's simply that the increasing popularity of the sport hasn't quite yet led to the kind of talent that exists in men's boxing (although, frankly, talent on that side isn't exactly at it's apex). Her superiority over lesser opponents isn't unheard of.

There's so much more I want to say about this film, because from this point forward it moved from being one of the best films of the year - purely on the strength of the writing, and the performances of Swank and Eastwood in particular - to one of the best films I've seen in several years. I'm so grateful that reviewers didn't give away the ending. I'll just say that the ending is layered with surprises, and that it's been a very, very long time that I haven't seen a single cell phone being used (how annoying is that, even with all of the polite requests and warnings?), and also seen so many in the theater remain in their seats long after the movie ended.

It's a brilliant, brilliant film, the kind that makes me want to go back and change the number of stars I've given most movies that I've reviewed, simply so that this 5 star review means more. I recently gave Sideways, Closer, and Finding Neverland 5 stars, and while they are all very, very worthy films - I'd like to give this one six.
"
6 Stars: Maggie May
MICHAEL ACUNA | Southern California United States | 01/09/2005
(5 out of 5 stars)

"Frankie Dunn (Clint Eastwood) is "the best cut man in the business' intones the narrator, Morgan Freeman in "Million Dollar Baby." Frankie can clean up a cut in seconds so that a fighter can get back in the ring and at the very least finish the fight and at best, win.
Yet Frankie can't heal the emotional wounds of his life even though he spends 365 days a year at Mass and writes letters to his estranged daughter every day asking for, I assume forgiveness. But the letters come back marked "Return to Sender" and Frankie files them away in a box and his life returns to the needs and wants of his Gym for Boxers and to his best friend, confidant and former fighter, Eddie Dupris (Morgan Freeman).
And then Maggie Fitzgerald walks into Frankie's Gym, pays her Gym dues for six months and asks Frankie every day to train her. And everyday he turns her down: "you're too old, too skinny...and you're a girl," he says.
Until one day she wears him down, he concedes to her wishes and there begins a Cinderella story of fights won, money earned and glory attained. And then it's all taken away.
Eastwood has made some great, even unforgettable films: "The Unforgiven, "Bird" to name a couple. But he has done nothing to match the guts, emotional power and poignancy of "Million Dollar Baby." And Hillary Swank, pretty much floundering after "Boys Don't Cry," is as sunny, thoughtful and real as she's ever been.
There is a scene towards the end of "MDB" between Frankie and Maggie in which Frankie explains the meaning of a Gaelic nickname that he has given Maggie that grabs at your heart and is so beautifully realized that you are galvanized with emotion. It's so real and so true to the tone of the film that you can't help but gasp.
"Million Dollar Baby" is Eastwood at his most emotionally aware and naked. This film comes from the deepest areas of Eastwood's heart and soul. It is a brave and honest film from one of the best purveyors of our Hopes and Dreams.
"
WOW!
flyguy | 03/22/2005
(5 out of 5 stars)

"An instant classic. This was not only the best picture of the year, but could be the most emotional film I have ever seen. Freeman's narration performance was even more moving than in Shawshank. If you think you know where Clint is going with this film, you don't. One of my top 10 favorites of all time. I loved this movie, and I hope you do too."