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DVD : Million Dollar Baby (Two-Disc Widescreen Edition)In association with Amazon.com List Price: $14.98 Amazon.com's Price: $9.49 You Save: $5.49 (37%)Prices subject to change. Availability: Usually ships in 24 hours
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Aspect Ratio: 2.40:1Audience Rating: PG-13 (Parental Guidance Suggested) Binding: DVD Brand: Warner Brothers EAN: 9781419802492 Format: AC-3, Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, Dubbed, DVD-Video, Subtitled, Widescreen, NTSC ISBN: 1419802496 Label: Warner Home Video Legal Disclaimer: Warranty does not cover misuse of product. Manufacturer: Warner Home Video Number Of Items: 2 Publisher: Warner Home Video Region Code: 1 Release Date: July 12, 2005 Running Time: 132 minutes Studio: Warner Home Video Theatrical Release Date: January 28, 2005 Sales Rank: 3305 MPN: 012569593237 Related Items:
Editorial Review: Product Description: "I DON'T TRAIN GIRLS" trainer Frankie Dunn growls. But something's different about the spirited boxing hopeful who shows up daily at Dunn's gym. All she wants is a fighting chance. Clint Eastwood plays Dunn and directs produces and composes music for this acclaimed multi-award-winning tale of heart hope and family. Hilary Swank plays resilient Maggie determined not to abandon her one dream. And Morgan Freeman is Scrap gym caretaker and counterpoint to Dunn's crustiness. Grab your dreams and come out swinging.Running Time: 132 min.Format: DVD MOVIE Genre: DRAMA UPC: 012569593237 Amazon.com: Clint Eastwood's 25th film as a director, Million Dollar Baby stands proudly with Unforgiven and Mystic River as the masterwork of a great American filmmaker. In an age of bloated spectacle and computer-generated effects extravaganzas, Eastwood turns an elegant screenplay by Paul Haggis (adapted from the book Rope Burns: Stories From the Corner by F.X. Toole, a pseudonym for veteran boxing manager Jerry Boyd) into a simple, humanitarian example of classical filmmaking, as deeply felt in its heart-wrenching emotions as it is streamlined in its character-driven storytelling. In the course of developing powerful bonds between "white-trash" Missouri waitress and aspiring boxer Maggie Fitzgerald (Hilary Swank), her grizzled, reluctant trainer Frankie Dunn (Eastwood), and Frankie's best friend and training-gym partner Eddie "Scrap-Iron" Dupris (Morgan Freeman), 74-year-old Eastwood mines gold from each and every character, resulting in stellar work from his well-chosen cast. Containing deep reserves of love, loss, and the universal desire for something better in hard-scrabble lives, Million Dollar Baby emerged, quietly and gracefully, as one of the most acclaimed films of 2004, released just in time to earn an abundance of year-end accolades, all of them well-deserved. --Jeff Shannon Average Rating:
 Rating:  - As Good as the HypeI finally saw this the other day for the first time and have to admit it lived up to its hype. Million Dollar Baby is a great film and Hillary Swank is a magnificent actress. Her performance in these frames was as strong as it was in Boys Don't Cry. As far as her relationship with Eastwood's Dunn goes their bond was totally believable as a union between a daughterless father and a fatherless daughter. I know that some of my fellow conservatives were sickened by the ending. Frankly, I wasn't. While ... Read More Rating: - A masterpiece about the cruelty of social survivalThis film is beautifully strong but immensely cruel. The strength of the film holds in one single fact: anyone can always win one battle provided they are trained properly and they are managed properly. That does not mean they will win the world title but they can always try and win one victory. How far will they go, no one knows, no one can tell. Luckily, otherwise there would be no meaning in trying. But the cruelty is all contained too in one fact: the end of such a fight for the top title is lost ... Read More Rating:  - Worst Move I Ever SawDespite the fact that Hillary Swank is a beautiful, super-talented actress, this movie was the worst I have ever seen. I say this because of the terrible evil that it is clearly trying to promote, namely the murder of anybody who is physically handicapped in some way. The mind of the character played by Hillary Swank was completely intact, yet instead of taking loving care of her, Clint Eastwood took advantage of her physical helplessness by murdering her. This is left-wing propaganda at its most shameful. Rating:  - Not my cup of teaFor me, this was sort of a waste of 2 hours. Some of the things were predictable, but I wasn't sure how it was all going to play out. I just couldn't connect with the characters all that much. I have really tried to like Hilary Swank as an actress, but for some reason I just haven't found her in a role that seems to capture an emotional captivating role. Clint Eastwood is always great, and so is Morgan Freeman they were great in this film. This was a touching story, but I feel it could have been ... Read More Rating: - Terrible!I am very unhappy with this film. It's blatant in two ways: first as a rip-off of the excellent and very well received (and awarded) Girl Fight, and even worse that it was written solely to get an Oscar nomination by purposely pandering to the emotions of the audience. Part way into this, I said to myself 'this is ridiculous... could they make it any plainer, and I will bet that they will kill her off to get even more emphasis'. Well, all that happened. You have Morgan Freeman narrating it, his voice and Clint's ... Read More Browse for similar items by category:
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