"Million Dollar Baby" by Clint Eastwood: a review

Frankie Dunn (Clint Eastwood) has spent his life in the ring - as a coach and manager; he has supervised a number of legendary boxer. The crucial rule that he teaches his fighters, he also obeyed itself: More important than anything else is their own coverage. Because Frankie suffers much that his daughter has turned away from him, he has received for many years no more closer relationship. Only one person can call his friend, ex-boxer Scrap (Morgan Freeman), who sees in Frankie's training center in accordance with the rights and knows that is beneath the hard shell, a soft core broadway musical type: For 23 years Frankie visited almost daily Mass and asks for forgiveness, which appears to him but not so far been granted ist.Doch then Maggie Fitzgerald (Hilary Swank) in his training center.

Maggie has never been easy, but it has something to achieve what very few ever: She knows what she wants and she goes each risk in order to get it. Maggie's life is a constant struggle, and it proves itself every day with unbridled talent, unwavering determination and amazing willpower. More than anything she wants but that someone believes in them. But it is precisely this responsibility from Frankie rejects strict - not to mention the risk. He does not talk around the bush: Maggie is too old, and besides, Frankie's not training women. But because she has no choice, they can not be put off by his rejection. Maggie is not ready to give up her dream, maybe they just can not. Anyway, they trained daily until they drop, with only a scrap makes her courage. Finally, Frankie is softened by her tenacity and agrees reluctant to take her under his wing.

While the two spur each other or take turns white-hot, they soon realize that they are cut from the same cloth. They manage to leave the painful past behind them and they finally grow together as a team to the family, since both long been lacking. Not yet they suspect that awaits them a fight, the more concentration and courage required of them than they can imagine.