Where can you go wrong with Ron Howard?

Rating: 7/10 (8 January 2006)

In the time of the depression, the result of one man's loss is his family's loss. He loss a good reputation, they loose their dinner. Thus begins a visicous circle that seems to have no escape when Jimmy Braddock (Crowe) finally throws in the towel. But leaving his life career doesn't seem to help his family's situation. When he's offered one more fight, something begins to develop again, and the stakes get higher and higher with each match.
Will a dazzling performance by Russle Crowe and by his charming, character-constant costar Renée Zellweger, a not-so-interesting plot becomes much more real and gripping. This is no classic description of the depression life and that makes it more tender and heartfelt, most of all for the children.
Screen-stealer Paul Giamatti makes one heck of a character that really proves his chemistry with Crowe on-screen. A steady and firm plot rises to an extremely intense and climatic ending than you would have thought, with an ending you hope no one tells you before you view the film. Once again, Ron Howard has proved his genius and drive, with a memborable cast and plot, with much detail going into the accuracy of the time period and