A Masterpiece

Rating: 10/10 (25 April 2017)

Million Dollar Baby (2004)
Plot In A Paragraph: A determined woman (Hilary Swank) works with a hardened boxing trainer (Eastwood) to become a professional.
This movie is a masterpiece. End of.
Whilst Eastwood picked up two Oscars for directing and the movie itself, I feel Clint also should have won for his acting here too!! Though it's close with Jamie Foxx in Ray!!
Everything is spot on with this movie. From the cast, both Hilary Swank and Morgan Freeman deservedly won Oscars for their work here. The score which was composed by Eastwood himself (instead of usual collaborator Lennie Niehaus) is gorgeous. This is the first Eastwood movie in over 20 years not to be composed by Niehaus.
This was the first time since the movies release that I have rewatched it. I went to see this movie in the cinema two days after my sister died. I'd read reviews calling it Frocky etc and expected an upbeat, inspirational movie. I did not see the gut wrenching twist coming at all. I sat in the cinema sobbing!!
Million Dollar Baby became Clint's third movie to hit the $100 million mark (and his first In over a decade) as it ended the year the 24th highest grossing movie of 2004.