Inspiring Story and Top Notch Acting

Rating: 10/10 (12 June 2005)

Russell Crowe deserves best actor, and Paul Giamatti deserves best supporting actor in this true boxing comeback story.
Ron Howard has become an excellent director.
Although my parents described the Great Depression to me, this movie made me experience the poverty and despair as if I were living it. Out-of-work men desperate to feed their families, no jobs, no hope, and no money.
Jim Braddock has to put his family on relief. As soon as he has enough money, Jim goes to the welfare office and pays back every cent. Incredible as this seems to us today, to Jim and his generation--it was the right thing to do.
I haven't been so moved by a movie in a long time.
10/10 but keep little kids away because of some gory fight scenes.