Ma Ma Baby Got Two Mo 'ways Two Mo 'ways to Do De Buck!
| One thousand thousand 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.X. Toole |
| Produced by |
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| Starring |
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| Cinematography | Tom Stern |
| Edited by | Joel Cox |
| Music past | Clint Eastwood |
| Production |
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| Distributed by | Warner Bros. Pictures |
| Release engagement |
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| Running time | 132 minutes |
| Land | United States |
| Linguistic communication | English |
| Upkeep | $30 meg[1] [ii] |
| Box office | $216.viii million[3] |
One thousand thousand Dollar Babe is a 2004 American sports drama film directed, co-produced, scored by and starring Clint Eastwood from a screenplay written by Paul Haggis, based on short stories by F.X. 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 amateur boxer who is helped by an underappreciated boxing trainer (Eastwood) to achieve her dream of becoming a professional person.
Million Dollar Baby was theatrically released on December 15, 2004, by Warner Bros. Pictures. It received critical acclaim and grossed $216.8 million worldwide. The film garnered seven nominations at the 77th University Awards and won 4: Best Motion picture, Best Manager, Best Actress (for Swank), and Best Supporting Thespian (for Freeman).
Plot [edit]
Margaret "Maggie" Fitzgerald, a waitress from the Ozarks, shows up at the Hit Pit, a rundown Los Angeles gym owned and operated by Frankie Dunn. Dunn is a cantankerous Irish gaelic-American trainer, revealed to exist estranged by his ain daughter. Maggie asks Frankie to train her, only he refuses every bit he does not train women and she is likewise old to begin a battle career. Eddie "Flake-Iron" Dupris, Frankie'due south friend and employee — the motion picture'south narrator — encourages though and helps Maggie. Frankie's prize prospect, "Large Willie" Footling, signs with successful manager Mickey Mack after becoming impatient with Frankie rejecting offers for a championship bout. Frankie and so reluctantly agrees to train Maggie.
Maggie fights her fashion upwards in the women's apprentice boxing division with Frankie'due south coaching. Since she has earned a reputation for quick KOs, Frankie must resort to bribery to get other managers to put their trainee fighters up against her. Scrap, concerned when Frankie rejects several offers for big fights, arranges a coming together for Maggie with Mickey Mack but, out of loyalty to Frankie, she declines. Frankie bestows Maggie a Gaelic nickname, embroidered on her boxing robe, Mo Chuisle (misspelled in the film as "mo cuishle"), just does not 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 female parent a firm, just her mother berates Maggie for endangering her government help, claiming that everyone back home is laughing at her.
Frankie is finally willing to arrange a title fight. He secures Maggie a $1 one thousand thousand match in Las Vegas against the WBA women'due south welterweight champion, Billie "The Bluish Conduct" Osterman, a High german ex-prostitute who has a reputation as an unpunished muddied fighter. Maggie begins to dominate the fight, simply Billie knocks her out with an illegal sucker punch from behind after the bell rings to end the circular. Maggie lands difficult on her corner stool, breaking her neck and leaving her a ventilator-dependent quadriplegic.
While in the infirmary, Maggie looks forwards to a visit from her family. They arrive only after get-go touring Disneyland and Universal Studios Hollywood. Accompanied by an attorney, their sole concern is to get Maggie'south assets transferred to them. Disgusted, she orders them to leave and threatens to report their welfare fraud if they effort to contact her once more.
Maggie soon develops bedsores and undergoes an amputation for an infected leg. She and then asks Frankie to assistance her die, declaring that she got everything she wanted out of life. Frankie refuses, then Maggie later bites through her tongue repeatedly in an endeavour to bleed to death. Knowing the fatherly amore Frankie has developed for Maggie, Frankie'south priest warns him that he would never detect himself once more if he were to become through with Maggie'southward request. Frankie so sneaks into the infirmary one night, unaware that Bit 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. Bit's narration is revealed to exist a letter to Frankie's daughter, informing her of her father's actual true character.
Cast [edit]
- Clint Eastwood equally Frankie Dunn, a gruff but well-pregnant elderly battle trainer.
- Hilary Swank as Mary Margaret "Maggie" Fitzgerald, a determined, aspiring boxer trained upwards by Frankie Dunn.
- Morgan Freeman as Eddie "Chip-Iron" Dupris, Dunn's gym assistant and onetime boxer.
- Jay Baruchel as Dangerous Dillard Fighting Flippo Bam-Bam Barch or "Danger", a simpleton would-be boxer.
- Mike Colter as "Big" Willie Niggling, a boxer whom Dunn has trained for years.
- Lucia Rijker as Billie "The Blue Comport" Osterman, a former prostitute and vicious boxer.
- BrÃan F. O'Byrne as Begetter Horvak, the priest of the church building which Dunn attends.
- Anthony Mackie as Shawrelle Drupe, an overzealous boxer and frequent tenant of Dunn'south gym.
- Margo Martindale equally Earline Fitzgerald, Maggie'due south selfish mother.
- Marcus Chait as J.D. Fitzgerald, Maggie's incarcerated brother.
- Riki Lindhome every bit Mardell Fitzgerald, Maggie's welfare-cheating sister.
- Michael Peña as Omar, a boxer and Shawrelle's best friend.
- Benito Martinez as Billie's manager.
- Grant L. Roberts as Billie'southward cut human.
Development and production [edit]
After being fired from the goggle box series Family Police, Haggis wrote the script on spec, and it took four years to sell it.[4] [5] The moving picture was stuck in development hell for years before it was shot. Several studios rejected the project fifty-fifty when Eastwood signed on as thespian and managing director. Even Warner Bros., Eastwood's longtime abode base of operations, would non concur to a $30 1000000 upkeep. Eastwood persuaded Lakeshore Entertainment'south Tom Rosenberg to put upwards half the budget (as well every bit handle strange distribution), with Warner Bros. contributing the residue. 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.[2] The term '1000000 Dollar Infant' was from the nose art of a World State of war 2 Consolidated B-24 Liberator heavy bomber.[ commendation needed ] The titular phrase 'million dollar babe' was used equally an insult during pre-fight publicity by Sonny Liston to Muhammad Ali, the latter of whom was an underdog at the time. Eastwood had his daughter Morgan Colette appear in a cursory role every bit a daughter who waves to Swank's character at a gas station.[6] [7]
Eastwood had conviction in Swank's interim, only upon seeing Swank's small physique, he had concerns, "I simply thought, 'Yep, this gal would exist great. If we can go her trained up. If we can get a niggling bit more bulk on her, to brand her expect like a fighter'...She was similar a plume. Merely what happened is, she had this dandy work ethic."[8]
Consequently, to prepare for her function, Swank underwent extensive training in the ring and weight room, gaining nineteen pounds of muscle, aided by professional trainer Grant L Roberts. She trained for nearly 5 hours every 24-hour interval, winding upwardly with a potentially life-threatening staphylococcus infection. She did not tell Eastwood nigh the infection because she idea it would be out of character for Maggie.[viii]
Reception [edit]
Box office [edit]
Million Dollar Infant initially had a limited release, opening in eight theaters in December 2004.[9] In its afterwards wide release opening, the flick earned $12,265,482 in North America and quickly became a box-office striking both domestically and internationally. Information technology grossed $216,763,646 in theaters; $100,492,203 in the Us, and $116,271,443 in other territories. The film played in theaters for six and a half months.[3]
Critical response [edit]
On Rotten Tomatoes Million Dollar Babe has an approval rating of 90% based on 269 reviews, with an average rating of eight.40/x. The website's critical consensus reads, "Clint Eastwood'southward bodacious management - combined with knockout performances from Hilary Swank and Morgan Freeman - help Million Dollar Baby to transcend its clichés, and the result is deeply heartfelt and moving."[x] On Metacritic it has a weighted boilerplate score of 86 out of 100, based on reviews from 39 critics, indicating "universal acclamation".[eleven] Audiences polled by CinemaScore gave the film a grade "A" on an A+ to F calibration.[12]
Roger Ebert of the Chicago Sunday Times gave the film four stars and stated that "Clint Eastwood'south Million Dollar Baby is a masterpiece, pure and uncomplicated," listing it as the all-time film of 2004.[13] Michael Medved stated: "My master objection to Meg Dollar Infant always centered on its misleading marketing, and effort by Warner Brothers to sell it equally a movie near a female person 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 1000000 Dollar Baby.'"[ commendation needed ] [14]
In early on 2005, the film sparked controversy when some inability rights activists protested the ending. The Inability Rights Instruction Fund released a statement virtually the picture show in February 2005 that included the following: "Perhaps the most central stereotype fueling disability prejudice is the mistaken assumption inherent in the bulletin of the motion-picture show that the quality of life of individuals with disabilities is unquestionably not worth living. This stereotype is contradicted past the personal experience of many thousands of people with significant disabilities in this land and around the world who view our own lives every bit ordinary and normal. It is farther contradicted by plenty of difficult data. Research overwhelmingly shows that people with disabilities notice satisfaction in our lives to the same caste, or greater, than does the full general public."[fifteen] The Chicago Tribune reported that protests confronting the movie by disability activists occurred in Chicago, Berkeley, and other cities, and that Clint Eastwood had previously lobbied for weakening provisions of the Americans with Disabilities Human activity.[xvi] [17]
Wesley J. Smith in The Weekly Standard as well criticized the film for its ending and for missed opportunities; Smith said, "The moving picture could take ended with Maggie triumphing once over again, perhaps having obtained an education and becoming a teacher; or, opening a business managing boxers; or perhaps, receiving a standing ovation as an inspirational speaker."[18]
Eastwood responded to the criticism by saying the picture was about the American dream.[19] 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 do".[twenty] Roger Ebert stated that "a flick is non adept or bad because of its content, but because of how it handles its content. Million Dollar Baby is classical in the make clean, clear, strong lines of its story and characters, and had an enormous emotional touch on".[21]
The Gaelic nickname for Swank'southward character comes from the original phrase a chuisle mo chroÃ, meaning "O pulse of my middle"; one critic noted that the use of Gaelic in the film led to some interest in the linguistic communication and the phrase.[22]
Height ten lists [edit]
Million Dollar Infant was listed on many critics' top 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 Post
- 2nd – Richard Schickel, Time
- second – Lisa Schwarzbaum, Amusement Weekly
- 2nd – Jonathan Rosenbaum, Chicago Reader
- 2d – Claudia Puig, Us Today
- 2nd – Keith Phipps, The A.V. Gild [24]
- 2nd – Ty Burr & Wesley Morris, Boston Globe
- 3rd – Kevin Thomas & Kenneth Turan, Los Angeles Times
- 3rd – Jack Matthews, New York Daily News
- 3rd – Glenn Kenny, Premiere
- 3rd – Carla Meyer & Ruthie Stein, San Francisco Chronicle
- 3rd – Peter Travers, Rolling Stone
- 4th – Mike Clark, U.s.a. Today
- 4th – David Ansen, Newsweek
- 4th – Jami Bernard, New York Daily News
- 5th – Robert Koehler, Diverseness
- 5th – James Berardinelli, Reelviews
- 6th – Stephen Holden, The New York Times
- 6th – Scott Tobias, The A.V. Lodge [24]
- 6th – Richard Roeper, Ebert & Roeper [25]
- ninth – Desson Thompson, Washington Post
- 10th – Nathan Rabin, The A.Five. Club [24]
- Summit 10 (listed alphabetically) – Ron Stringer, L.A. Weekly
- Elevation ten (listed alphabetically) – David Sterritt, Christian Science Monitor
- Top x (listed alphabetically)– Shawn Levy, Portland Oregonian
- Acme x (listed alphabetically) – Carrie Rickey & Steven Rea, Philadelphia Inquirer
Accolades [edit]
Million Dollar Babe received the honour for All-time Picture of 2004 at the 77th University Awards. Clint Eastwood was awarded his second Best Director Oscar for the film, and also received a All-time Actor in a Leading Role nomination. Hilary Swank and Morgan Freeman received Best Actress in a Leading Role and Best Histrion in a Supporting Role Oscars, respectively. Joel Cox, Eastwood's editor for many years, was nominated for Best Pic Editing, and Paul Haggis was nominated for the Best Adapted Screenplay award.
The motion picture was named the third "Best Motion-picture show of the 21st Century So Far" in 2017 by The New York Times.[26]
| Award | Category | Subject | Event |
|---|---|---|---|
| Academy Award | All-time Picture | Clint Eastwood, Albert South. Cherry-red and Tom Rosenberg | Won |
| Best Manager | Clint Eastwood | Won | |
| Best Actor | Nominated | ||
| Best Actress | Hilary Swank | Won | |
| Best Supporting Thespian | Morgan Freeman | Won | |
| All-time Adjusted Screenplay | Paul Haggis | Nominated | |
| Best Picture show Editing | Joel Cox | Nominated | |
| ACE Eddie | Best Editing | Nominated | |
| Amanda Award | All-time Foreign Feature Movie | Clint Eastwood | Nominated |
| American Screenwriters Association | Discover Screenwriting Accolade | Paul Haggis | Won |
| Art Directors Guild Award | Best Gimmicky Feature Film | Henry Bumstead Jack G. Taylor Jr. | Nominated |
| Billie Award | Best Film | Clint Eastwood Albert S. Ruddy Tom Rosenberg Paul Haggis | Nominated |
| Black Reel Award | Best Supporting Thespian | Morgan Freeman | Nominated |
| Circulate Picture Critics Association Award | Best Actress | Hilary Swank | Won |
| Best Supporting Actor | Morgan Freeman | Nominated | |
| All-time Manager | Clint Eastwood | Nominated | |
| Best Film | Clint Eastwood Albert Due south. Carmine Tom Rosenberg Paul Haggis | Nominated | |
| Casting Lodge of America Award | All-time Casting for Feature Film: Drama | Phyllis Huffman | Nominated |
| César Awards | Best Foreign Pic | Clint Eastwood Albert S. Ruddy Tom Rosenberg Paul Haggis | Won |
| Chicago Film Critics Association Honour | All-time Managing director | Clint Eastwood | Won |
| David di Donatello Awards | All-time Strange Film | Clint Eastwood | Won |
| Directors Guild of America Award | Outstanding Directing | Clint Eastwood | Won |
| Managing director'due south Guild of Great Uk | Outstanding Director | Clint Eastwood | Nominated |
| ESPY Laurels | Best Sports Movie | Clint Eastwood Albert S. Ruddy Tom Rosenberg Paul Haggis | Nominated |
| Florida Film Critics Circle Award | Best Actress | Hilary Swank | Won |
| Gilded Earth Award | Best Actress | Won | |
| All-time Director | Clint Eastwood | Won | |
| All-time Supporting Actor | Morgan Freeman | Nominated | |
| Best Move Picture - Drama | Clint Eastwood Albert S. Ruddy Tom Rosenberg Paul Haggis | Nominated | |
| Best Original Score | Clint Eastwood | Nominated | |
| Grammy Honor | Best Score Soundtrack for Visual Media | Nominated | |
| Picture Audio Editors Accolade | All-time Sound Editing (Sound Effects & Foley) | Alar Robert Murray Bub Asman David Grimaldi Jason Male monarch | Nominated |
| MTV Movie Laurels | All-time Female Operation | Hilary Swank | Nominated |
| NAACP Image Honor | Outstanding Supporting Thespian | Morgan Freeman | Won |
| National Board of Review Award | Best Picture show | Clint Eastwood Albert S. Ruddy Tom Rosenberg Paul Haggis | Nominated |
| Best Director | Clint Eastwood | Nominated | |
| Best Actor | Nominated | ||
| New York Film Critics Circumvolve Award | All-time Manager | Won | |
| Producers Guild of America Award | Best Theatrical Motion Moving picture | Clint Eastwood Albert Due south. Ruby Tom Rosenberg Paul Haggis | Nominated |
| Phoenix Motion-picture show Critics Social club Award | Best Actress | Hilary Swank | Won |
| Best Actor | Clint Eastwood | Nominated | |
| All-time Director | Nominated | ||
| Best Supporting Player | Morgan Freeman | Nominated | |
| Best Moving-picture show | Clint Eastwood Albert S. Ruddy Tom Rosenberg Paul Haggis | Nominated | |
| Satellite Award | Best Actress | Hilary Swank | Won |
| All-time Adjusted Screenplay | Paul Haggis | Won | |
| Screen Actors Order Award | Best Actress | Hilary Swank | Won |
| Best Supporting Actor | Morgan Freeman | Won | |
| Best Cast | Nominated | ||
Dwelling house media [edit]
The film was released on VHS and DVD on July 12, 2005, and all editions of the Region 1 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 Nov fourteen, 2006.[28] It was the first Best Picture show winner released on either high-definition optical disc format in the U.S.; it and Unforgiven (also starring Eastwood and Freeman) were the only ones released in the U.S. on HD DVD prior to the first one released in the U.South. on Blu-ray, Crash.[27] [28] The film is also bachelor online through video on demand and most major streaming platforms.
Run across likewise [edit]
- Movie theatre 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 "Million Dollar Babe (2004)". Box Office Mojo . Retrieved 1 Jan 2021.
- ^ Leibowitz, Ed (1 Feb 2008). "The Fabulist: Paul Haggis Reflects on His Career Los Angeles Magazine". Los Angeles Magazine.
- ^ Cath Clarke (6 January 2011). "Paul Haggis: 'You have to question your beliefs'". The Guardian.
- ^ Hughes, p. 157
- ^ Fold 3 WWII Crew photos
- ^ a b Rebecca Leung (March ii, 2005). "Hilary Swank: Oscar Gold – hour". CBS News. Retrieved September nine, 2010. [ dead link ]
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- ^ "MILLION DOLLAR BABY (2005) A". CinemaScore. Archived from the original on 2018-12-twenty.
- ^ Ebert, Roger (7 Jan 2005). "Million Dollar Baby". Chicago Sun Times . Retrieved 26 November 2007 – via RogerEbert.com. [ dead link ]
- ^ Medved, Michael. "My 'Million Dollar' Answer," OpinionJournal/Dow Jones & Company, Inc. (17 Feb 2005). Archived at TownHall.com.
- ^ "Million Dollar Baby Built on Prejudice virtually People with Disabilities". Retrieved 2021-02-fifteen .
- ^ Tribune, Chicago. "Why 'One thousand thousand Dollar Baby' infuriates the disabled". chicagotribune.com . Retrieved 2021-02-15 .
- ^ Writers, Maria Alicia Gaura, Alan Gathright, Relate Staff (2000-09-30). "Eastwood Wins Suit Over ADA / But jury says resort needs improvements". SFGATE . Retrieved 2021-02-15 .
- ^ Smith, Wesley J. (March 2, 2005). "A Meg Dollar Miss". Weekly Standard – via CBS News.
- ^ Rich, Frank (February 13, 2005). "How Muddied Harry Turned Commie". The New York Times.
- ^ Lee, Chris (Jan 27, 2005). "'Baby' plot twist angers activists". Los Angeles Times.
- ^ Roger Ebert (29 January 2005). "Critics have no correct to play spoiler". Chicago Dominicus-Times . Retrieved ane January 2021.
- ^ Davis, Wes (26 February 2005). "Opinion | Fighting Words (Published 2005)". The New York Times. Archived from the original on 2015-05-29.
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- Eliot, Marc (2009). American Insubordinate: The Life of Clint Eastwood . Harmony Books. ISBN978-0-307-33688-0.
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External links [edit]
- One thousand thousand Dollar Baby at IMDb
- Million Dollar Baby at the TCM Movie Database
- One thousand thousand Dollar Baby at AllMovie
- Million Dollar Infant at Box Office Mojo
- Meg Dollar Baby at Rotten Tomatoes
- Million Dollar Baby at Metacritic
- United states News article: Million Dollar Maybe, A real-life version of Maggie Fitzgerald
- Another possible real-life Maggie Fitzgerald
- 1000000 Dollar Babe at the Sports Pic Database
Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Million_Dollar_Baby
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