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Million Dollar Baby
2004 American sports drama film by Clint Eastwood
This article is about the 2004 film. For other uses, see Million Dollar Baby (disambiguation).
Not to be confused with Billion Dollar Baby or Million Dollar Maybe.
Million Dollar Baby is a 2004 American sports drama film starring Hilary Swank. It is directed, co-produced, scored by and starring Clint Eastwood from a screenplay written by Paul Haggis, based on stories from the 2000 collection Rope Burns: Stories from the Corner by F.X. Toole, the pen name of fight manager and cutman Jerry Boyd. It also stars Morgan Freeman. The film follows Margaret "Maggie" Fitzgerald (Swank), an underdog amateur boxer who is helped by an underappreciated boxing trainer (Eastwood) to achieve her dream of becoming a professional.
Million Dollar Baby was theatrically released on December 15, 2004, by Warner Bros. Pictures. It received critical acclaim and grossed $216.8 million worldwide. The film garnered seven nominations at the 77th Academy Awards and won four: Best Picture, Best Director, Best Actress (for Sw
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"Million Dollar Baby" brought national attention to a slice of female athletics. But the light it has shed on boxing hasn't always been positive: Becky Zerlentes, a 34-year-old boxer from Fort Collins, died Sunday after sustaining a head injury during a Saturday amateur boxing match. She is believed to be the first woman to die in a sanctioned amateur match in the U.S.
And CBS News Correspondent Mika Brzezinski interviewed
former boxer Katie Dallam
, a fighter who only fought one professional match. It's been nine years since that match, which was not only her first, but also her last."I thought it would be a sport," Dallam said. "I didn't think it would be like life or death."
Only now the gloves are off and Dallam — who went into a coma after she took nearly 150 blows to the head — is fighting brain damage, partial blindness, and memory loss. It took her two years to regain the ability to speak
"What I'm trying to say is like, um, damn it! I'm losing it again," Dallam said, stammering. Frustrated, she slammed her fist and rubbed her head while talking with Boxing trainer, author F.X. Toole is the pen name of boxing trainer Jerry Boyd[1] (1930 – September 2, 2002). Toole is most noted for writing the 2000 collection of short stories Rope Burns: Stories from the Corner, which were adapted into the Oscar-winning movie Million Dollar Baby in 2004. F.X. Toole's posthumous novel Pound for Pound was released in 2006 to rave reviews. Cutman, a one-hour dramatic series set in the world of boxing, drawn from short stories by F.X. Toole, is in development by AMC Television. Rope Burns: Stories from the Corner is dedicated to Dub Huntley, the man who introduced Boyd to boxing, and many of the characters and events related in the book are from Dub Huntley's life and experience. Huntley trained Boyd to box when Boyd was in his 40s and the two became friends during that time. Huntley was the trainer for world champions Laila Ali, Hector Lopez, and many others, including comedian/writer Chris Strait when he was an amateur boxer. Immediately before his death, Boyd was acting as a cutman and assistant tr
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