Million Dollar Baby is a 2004 American sports drama film directed, co-produced, and scored by Clint Eastwood and starring Eastwood, Hilary Swank, and Morgan Freeman. It is the story of an under-appreciated boxing trainer, his elusive past, and his quest for atonement by helping an underdog amateur female boxer (the film's title character) achieve her dream of becoming a professional. The film won four Academy Awards, including Best...
The Ref tells Billie that if she keeps breaking the rules he will disqualify ...
Danger first introduces himself to Scrap by saying he has nothing against nig...
Scrap tells Frankie that Sally probably took on Maggie hoping she would lose ...
Scrap narrates about how all fighters are pig-headed, but they have to be bec...
We learn that Frankie has a daughter whom he probably doesn't talk to very mu...
Maggie tells Frankie that her eye is getting blurry, but that she only needs ...
Scrap asks Danger if there is anything he can do for him, and Danger replies ...
Scrap narrates about how a boxer resists the body's urge to give up.
Maggie asks Frankie if he'll live in a cabin when he quits boxing, but he say...
When Sally messes up and lets Maggie lose, Frankie steps in and claims her as...
Scrap is narrating the way Frankie feels about boxers who only fight with "he...
Maggie tells Scrap that the doctors are telling Frankie that she's paralyzed ...
Frankie gets down on Scrap for buying expensive bleach.
Frankie, Maggie and Scrap are at the hospital after Maggie breaks her nose du...
Scrap describes the magic of boxing.
Maggie is afraid of how Frank will handle the news that she is paralyzed, so ...
Maggie blames herself for getting hurt, she thinks it's her fault for not pro...
Scrap comes into Frankies office to tell him that his fighters aren't talking...
Frankie and Maggie talk after the fight, and he reminds her of his most impor...
Maggie's family comes to see her, but only because they want control over her...
Frankie lectures Maggie because she didn't follow the rule, protect yourself ...
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