the boxing movie for the decade, poignant, funny and beautiful..

Rating: 8/10 (19 June 2005)

Million Dollar Baby, can't get it out of my head.... absolutely brilliant, a deeper movie than at first may seem.
Basically surrounds the on going of a boxing coach/manager (Eastwood) who gets coaxed into helping out a determined 31/32 year old girl (Swank) who wants to be a boxer with the mgr's friend overseeing events and hangs on for the ride (Morgan Freeman). Swank comes from a lower class struggling background from the family from hell.
In some ways it is part Rocky, but it goes it own way, and the emotional roller-coaster of the movie hinges on that the girl becomes like a surrogate daughter for Eastwood as he is cut off from his own estranged daughter.
Very humorous at times, but you can't help be chocked at the end of the film.
Class movie.
8/10 definites.....