Millionaire Dollar Baby (2004)
Country: US
Technical: col/2.35:1 132m
Director: Clint Eastwood
Cast: Clint Eastwood, Morgan Freeman, Hilary Swank
Synopsis:
An aged boxing trainer runs a gym, from which he manages the odd hopeful, only to have them snatched from him impatient at his undue caution. When a determined thirty-year-old woman boxer arrives seeking his expertise, all his instincts say 'no'.
Review:
A remarkably subtle film, which has its ironies and sentiment, sure, but also has a whole lot that is only half said or that we are never really privy to. The complex relationship between the man's desperately clinging faith, his one-sided correspondence with his daughter, and his decision to help this new surrogate to die, is perhaps too painful to expose fully. Rarely has Eastwood turned in so gentle and nuanced a performance, and he is well supported, both by his cast and his regular band of technicians.
Country: US
Technical: col/2.35:1 132m
Director: Clint Eastwood
Cast: Clint Eastwood, Morgan Freeman, Hilary Swank
Synopsis:
An aged boxing trainer runs a gym, from which he manages the odd hopeful, only to have them snatched from him impatient at his undue caution. When a determined thirty-year-old woman boxer arrives seeking his expertise, all his instincts say 'no'.
Review:
A remarkably subtle film, which has its ironies and sentiment, sure, but also has a whole lot that is only half said or that we are never really privy to. The complex relationship between the man's desperately clinging faith, his one-sided correspondence with his daughter, and his decision to help this new surrogate to die, is perhaps too painful to expose fully. Rarely has Eastwood turned in so gentle and nuanced a performance, and he is well supported, both by his cast and his regular band of technicians.
Country: US
Technical: col/2.35:1 132m
Director: Clint Eastwood
Cast: Clint Eastwood, Morgan Freeman, Hilary Swank
Synopsis:
An aged boxing trainer runs a gym, from which he manages the odd hopeful, only to have them snatched from him impatient at his undue caution. When a determined thirty-year-old woman boxer arrives seeking his expertise, all his instincts say 'no'.
Review:
A remarkably subtle film, which has its ironies and sentiment, sure, but also has a whole lot that is only half said or that we are never really privy to. The complex relationship between the man's desperately clinging faith, his one-sided correspondence with his daughter, and his decision to help this new surrogate to die, is perhaps too painful to expose fully. Rarely has Eastwood turned in so gentle and nuanced a performance, and he is well supported, both by his cast and his regular band of technicians.