Something went wrong
Try again later.
Million Dollar Baby
Maggie Fitzgerald, a poor thirty-one year old waitress from the very lower classes and with a dysfunctional loser family, decides to make a difference through boxing. So Maggie determines to work with a hardened boxing trainer to become a professional.
11 November 1964, Belshill, Glasgow, Scotland, UK
19 May 1978, Los Angeles, California, USA
28 June 1971, Albuquerque, New Mexico, USA
7 May 1974, Pec, Serbia, Yugoslavia
10 February 1949, Newark, New Jersey, USA
1 June 1981, Indianapolis, Indiana, USA
7 December 1967, Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, Netherlands
February 27, 2015
From beginning to end, its dark, foreboding atmosphere reflects the troubled world in which its three central figures conduct their essentially moral lives.
February 24, 2013
Barely a year after the release of Mystic River, Clint Eastwood delivers a second consecutive drama that fearlessly probes the shadows of human morality without falling back on easy answers.
February 24, 2013
It's impressive, in the sense that a sucker-punch impresses itself on your skull.
February 27, 2015
The film is impeccably made, but more than that, the director who also composed the lovely music score, brings a rare degree of humanity to the intensely moving conclusion.
February 27, 2015
I don't think it's his masterpiece, but it's a big, beautiful, sad film with unforgettable performances.
February 27, 2015
A heartfelt, creditable picture.
January 10, 2014
The only differences between this new film and its many forebears are that the young hopeful is a woman and the finish is unforeseen.
February 27, 2015
Anyone who doesn't believe that Clint Eastwood is one of the best film-makers in America ought to see Million Dollar Baby.
January 10, 2014
As an actor, Eastwood has rarely taken on a character as complex as Frankie Dunn.
February 24, 2013
It is thoughtful, unfashionable, measured, mostly honest, sometimes clumsy or remote, often exciting, occasionally moving and eventually surprising. It's correct.
February 27, 2015
The movie is simultaneously conventional and subversive, broad and nuanced, shamelessly manipulative and genuinely moving, a cheap sucker punch and a work of real moral weight.
March 16, 2017
Always one of America's most undervalued directors, Clint Eastwood is proving himself the American cinema's national treasure in the third act of his career.