Million Dollar Baby is a 2004 American sports drama film directed, co-produced, and scored by Clint Eastwood from a screenplay written by Paul Haggis, based on short stories by F.X. Toole, starring Eastwood, Hilary Swank, and Morgan Freeman.
Plot[]
Frankie Dunn (Clint Eastwood) is a veteran Los Angeles boxing trainer who keeps almost everyone at arm's length, except his old friend and associate Eddie "Scrap Iron" Dupris (Morgan Freeman). When Maggie Fitzgerald (Hilary Swank) arrives in Frankie's gym seeking his expertise, he is reluctant to train the young woman, a transplant from working-class Missouri. Eventually, he relents, and the two form a close bond that will irrevocably change them both.
Cast[]
- Clint Eastwood as Frankie Dunn
- Hilary Swank as Mary Margaret "Maggie" Fitzgerald
- Morgan Freeman as Eddie "Scrap-Iron" Dupris
- Jay Baruchel as Dangerous Dillard Fighting Flippo Bam-Bam Barch or "Danger"
- Mike Colter as "Big" Willie Little
- Lucia Rijker as Billie "The Blue Bear" Osterman
- Brían F. O'Byrne as Father Horvak
- Anthony Mackie as Shawrelle Berry
- Margo Martindale as Earline Fitzgerald
- Marcus Chait as J.D. Fitzgerald
- Riki Lindhome as Mardell Fitzgerald
- Michael Peña as Omar
- Benito Martinez as Billie's manager.
- Grant L. Roberts as Billie's cut man, (trainer)
- Bruce MacVittie as Mickey Mack
- David Powledge as counterman at diner
- Joe D'Angerio as cut man
- Aaron Stretch as himself
- Don Familton as ring announcer