2004 · drama · sport
Million Dollar Baby
Directed by Clint Eastwood2h 12m2004
Despondent over a painful estrangement from his daughter, trainer Frankie Dunn isn't prepared for boxer Maggie Fitzgerald to enter his life. But Maggie's determined to go pro and to convince Dunn and his cohort to help her.
Our read: Million Dollar Baby (2004) reads as a sombre, measured, grounded drama · sport entry — measured in intensity, intimate in scope, measured in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
Million Dollar Baby counts for a challenge
Sombre, measured, measured drama / sport, grounded in texture. Ambivalent, intimate, measured.
- sombre
- measured
- intense
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