So Full Of Cliché's And Fake Sentiment, It Could Win Best Picture

Rating: 1/10 (7 June 2005)

From the very beginning of this lousy film with the quote by Damon Runyon stating that the story of Braddock is the best in boxing (oh, if I disagree and think maybe Ali's story is more important, I'm a dope?) to the ham fisted inelegant rendering of the final boxing match between Baer and Braddock, Cinderella Man is cheap sentimental hooey that is most definitely Ron Howards worst film and from the guy who made Far & Away and How the Grinch Stole Christmas, that's really saying something!
The politics are specious and why does everyone else have to be a total villain in order to make Russell Crowe look like a nice guy? Is Crowe that much of an ogre? He's not when you look at his other work like Proof and The Sum Of Us. No, it's just a stupid manipulation on the part of low talents like Howard and Akiva Goldsman.
From the PAST DUE notice on the milk bottle (oh, didn't they realize that if they didn't pay their milk bill they would stop delivering?) to the sick child, one cliché just trumps another.
Did Braddock really return his relief money? Did he do it in such an ostentatious, look at me way? I hated this film. Truly hated it.