Better Than Sideways or The Aviator

Rating: 10/10 (24 January 2005)

I don't cry at movies and often tease people who do (sorry mom), but this movie is such a masterpiece I cried after wards on the way home.
Maggie Fitzgerald (Swank) comes from your stereotypical Southwestern trailer park family. She has dreams of becoming a boxer when she stumbles into 'The Hit Pit,' an all male boxing club run by Frank Dunn (Eastwood). After Mr. Dunn tells Maggie that "Girlie tough ain't enough" and she's "too old," Dunn's right-hand man Eddie (Freeman) steps into to teach her a few things and eventually convinces Dunn to train Maggie.
Million Dollar Baby seems like a boxing movie until half way through it. Beautifully written and directed and supurbly acted it paints the human soul on the big screen. It makes you laugh and cry and nearly vomit or pass out.
10/10, a must see.