Million Dollar Baby

Titolo originale: Million Dollar Baby
Regia: Clint Eastwood |
Anno: 2004
Origine: Switzerland | United States of America |
Generi: Dramma
Tag: dying and death | transporter | strong woman | stroke of fate | advancement | sports | fight | suicide attempt | boxer | training | tragedy | female protagonist | brutality | boxing trainer | unlikely friendship | female boxing | knockout | euthanasia | determination | boxing | sentimental |
Cast: Clint Eastwood | Hilary Swank | Morgan Freeman | Jay Baruchel | Mike Colter | Lucia Rijker | Brían F. O'Byrne | Anthony Mackie | Margo Martindale | Riki Lindhome | Michael Peña | Benito Martinez | Bruce MacVittie | David Powledge | Joe D'Angerio | Marcus Chait | Tom McCleister | Erica Grant | Naveen | Morgan Eastwood | Jamison Yang | Dean Familton | Louis Moret | Vincent Foster | Jon D. Schorle II | Marty Sammon | Steven M. Porter | Ray Corona | Ming Lo | Miguel Pérez | Jim Cantafio | Ted Grossman | Ned Eisenberg | Marco Rodríguez | Roy Nugent | Don Familton | Mark Thomason | Brian T. Finney | Spice Williams-Crosby | Kim Strauss | Rob Maron | Kirsten Berman | Susan Krebs | Sunshine Chantal Parkman | Kim Dannenberg | Eddie Bates | Jimmy Alioto | Jason Williams | Nina Avetisova | Michael Bentt | Bruce Gerard Brown Jr. | McKay Stewart | Jude Ciccolella | Kimberly Estrada | Sean LoGrasso | Sean O'Kane | Rosine 'Ace' Hatem | Bridgett Riley | Boni Yanagisawa | Christina Cox | Mimi Lesseos | Jaerin Washington |

Maggie Fitzgerald fa la cameriera, ha passato i trent'anni ma ancora sogna di affermarsi come boxeuse, e ha anche incontrato l'allenatore che fa al caso suo. Peccato che Frankie Dunn non voglia saperne di allenare una donna...

Approfondimenti

The name of the café in which Maggie Fitzgerald (Hilary Swank) works is "On the Waterfront C [...] D
Ashley Judd was also considered for the part of Maggie. D
Second in the poll for Fipresci Grand Prix of the Year 2005. D
Hilary Swank won the Best Actress Oscar for her performance in this movie, making her the first [...] D
Though this was the only time Clint Eastwood and Albert S. Ruddy won Oscars together for Best P [...] D
The cast includes three Oscar winners: Hilary Swank, Clint Eastwood, and Morgan Freeman. D
The first shot of Frankie Dunn and Eddie "Scrap-Iron" Dupris in the gym office was filmed with [...] D
Morgan Freeman was originally approached to play the role of Frankie Dunn. But even before Clin [...] D
Clint Eastwood was the only nominee for the Best Actor Oscar in 2005 to play a fictional charac [...] D
One of two Best Director and Best Picture Oscar winners featuring Clint Eastwood as actor, prod [...] D
Producer Albert S. Ruddy received his second Best Picture award for this movie. The first, for [...] D
Shares with Momenti di gloria (1981) the largest haul of Academy Awards for a sports-themed mov [...] D
The only movie in which Hilary Swank won an acting Oscar for her performance in a movie which w [...] D
Michael Peña collaborated with Screenwriter Paul Haggis on their next movie, Crash: Contatto [...] D
Prepping and shooting of this movie was so quick that producer and director Clint Eastwood basi [...] D
Sandra Bullock was the first actress attached to play Maggie, and she wanted to pursue Shekhar [...] D
For this film, Clint Eastwood became the 12th person to direct multiple Best Picture Oscar-winn [...] D
The film begins by fading into the Warner Bros. logo followed by a second studio logo, both of [...] D
"Rope Burns: Stories From the Corner", a collection of short stories based on the experiences o [...] D
Included amongst the "1001 Movies You Must See Before You Die", edited by Steven Schneider. D
Paul Haggis' first produced screenplay. D
"Mo chuisle" literally means "my pulse", but can mean "my love" or "my darling". It's a term of [...] D
According to "Variety", the cost was actually closer to $18 million instead of the reported $30 [...] D
One of three Warner Brothers movies in a row where the Best Picture winner co-starred Morgan Fr [...] D
Maggie's checkbook ledger contains an entry for Michael Sexton, this movie's property master. D
This is the 25th movie Clint Eastwood has directed, the 57th movie in which he has acted, and t [...] D
Stayed in the top five at the box office every weekend from the time it was nominated for Best [...] D
One of two boxing movies that won Best Picture. The other is Rocky (1976). D
Played in theaters for six and a half months. D
The only movie that year to be nominated for Best Actor and Best Actress Oscars. D
This movie covers similar territory to Alejandro Amenábar's Mare dentro (2004), which was re [...] D
One of two times when Clint Eastwood and Martin Scorsese competed for Best Picture and Best Dir [...] D
Producer Albert S. Ruddy loved the story and was determined to make it into a movie and spent f [...] D
The song played on the bagpipes at the beginning of the final fight is, "The Rising of the Moon [...] D
The movie is based on three short stories from Jerry Boyd/F.X. Toole's short stories: "The Monk [...] D
Theatrical movie debut of Mike Colter (Big Willie Little). D
The first Best Picture Oscar winner to be released on HD DVD and Blu-ray. D
Stuck in development hell for years with many studios rejecting it because of its relatively do [...] D
Morgan Eastwood: "Little girl in truck" is Clint Eastwood's daughter. D
The movie was filmed in thirty-seven days, but originally scheduled filming for thirty-nine day [...] D
Of the three Best Picture Oscar winners featuring Morgan Freeman, this is the only one where he [...] D
Released in December to qualify for the Academy Awards. Remarkably, this movie hadn't even begu [...] D
The term "million dollar baby" actually refers to the nose art on a World War II B24 heavy bomb [...] D
Second sports-related movie for Hilary Swank after her starring debut in Karate Kid 4 (1994). D
At age 74, Clint Eastwood became the oldest Best Director Oscar winner for this movie. D
Probably one of the key features to this movie being such a success was that no one had divulge [...] D
Hilary Swank contracted a bacterial infection from a blister she developed on her foot during t [...] D
Hilary Swank underwent a serious training schedule to prepare for this movie. She gained nearly [...] D
Clint Eastwood based his character's voice on producer Albert S. Ruddy. D
Boxing and kickboxing champion Lucia Rijker, who also played the part of Billie "The Blue Bear" [...] D
Hilary Swank engaged with her character Maggie easily as her upbringing was very similar. D
Hilary Swank's Best Actress Oscar winning performance was the only nominee in the category in a [...] D
Writer Paul Haggis was directing Crash: Contatto fisico (2004) and was scheduled to direct this [...] D
Morgan Freeman's win for Best supporting actor was the second year in a row that category was w [...] D
Jerry Boyd (a.k.a. author F.X. Toole) died a month after learning that Clint Eastwood had signe [...] D
Roger Ebert listed this movie as the best of 2004. D
Anjelica Huston originally brought the book "Rope Burns" to producer Albert S. Ruddy's attentio [...] D
One of two times when the presenter handing Clint Eastwood an Oscar was Barbra Streisand. She p [...] D