From there we go to The English Patient or Coming Home about being bedridden and physically handicapped, to end with Mar Adentro about the moral implications of assisted suicide. Toole (who was once a cut man), the first half is Girlfight and Billy Elliot about achieving a goal with the help of someone who cares.
My complaint is that the story is not original. If you hate boxing, you’ll find this violent otherwise, the blood is necessary for the plot. The film is no more violent than any other boxing report. Swank worked out in a Brooklyn Gym until she acquired a boxer’s physique. He still amazes everyone as an actor (although here, his voice sounds forced) and director. In 1995 Eastwood attended the Filmfest Hamburg to receive the Douglas Sirk Prize for life achievement. With over a hundred films between them, they have received every national and international award. Frank consults the priest about assisted suicide, saying, “By keeping her alive I’m killing her.” Scrap runs the club.Įastwood, Freeman, and Swank are excellent as always. Maggie is immobile in a hospital bed wishing for death. From this point we have a completely different film about a father-daughter relationship and guilt and morals. Naturally, once in the ring, she wins every fight until an injury stops her career. Everything is against her: she is a girl she is too old (30) she is uneducated and from the Missouri Ozarks she works fulltime as a waitress. Maggie Fitzgerald ( Hilary Swank) trains at the club with initially no encouragement. Now Frankie runs The Hit Pit, a training club in Los Angeles and Scrap is his 24-hour janitor. Frankie Dunn ( Clint Eastwood) was a cut man for Scrap ( Morgan Freeman) until Scrap lost an eye to the sport. The job of the cut man is to stench the blood of boxers, so that they can continue fighting under the eye of the referee, who will disqualify in case of serious injuries. Clint Eastwood, Hilary Swank, Morgan Freeman, Jay Baruchel, Mike Colter