Million dollar baby
Record details
- ISBN: 1419802496
- ISBN: 012569593237
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Physical Description:
videorecording
videodisc
2 videodiscs (132 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in. - Edition: Widescreen format.
- Publisher: Burbank, CA : Warner Home Video, 2005, c2004.
Content descriptions
General Note: | Digital videodisc (DVD) Title and credits from container. Based upon stories from Rope burns by F.X. Toole. Originally produced as a motion picture in 2004. Special features: James Lipton takes on three (roundtable with Clint Eastwood, Hilary Swank, Morgan Freeman and moderator James Lipton); Born to fight (examines the parallels of the movie to real-life boxer Lucia Rijker); Producers round 15 (behind the scenes). Disc 2 contains all special features. Director of photography, Tom Stern ; edited by Joel Cox. |
Participant or Performer Note: | Clint Eastwood, Hillary Swank, Morgan Freeman. |
Target Audience Note: | MPAA rating: PG-13; for violence. |
Terms Governing Use and Reproduction Note: | Restrictions: Home use only. |
Language Note: | Soundtrack in English or French; subtitles in English, French or Spanish. Closed-captioned. |
Awards Note: | Academy Award, Best achievement in directing (Eastwood), Best motion picture of the year (Eastwood, Ruddy, Rosenberg), Best performance by an actor in a supporting role (Freeman), Best performance by an actress in a leading role (Swank), 2005; Golden Globe award, Best director - motion picture (Eastwood), Best performance by an actress in a motion picture - drama (Swank), 2005. |
Search for related items by subject
Subject: | Boxing -- Drama Boxers (Sports) -- Drama Boxing for women -- Drama Women athletes -- Drama Boxing trainers -- Drama Boxing managers -- Drama Interpersonal relations -- Drama Closed captioned |
Genre: | Sports films. Film adaptations. Feature films. Video recordings for the hearing impaired. |
Available copies
- 9 of 9 copies available at BC Interlibrary Connect.
- 1 of 1 copy available at Creston Public Library. (Show preferred library)
Holds
- 0 current holds with 9 total copies.
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Mackenzie Public Library | DVD MIL (Text) | 35192000305114 | DVD | Volume hold | Available | - |
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- Video Librarian Reviews : Video Librarian Reviews
Director Clint Eastwood pulls no punches in this devastating and gritty film-noir boxing drama, an emotional tour de force that uncovers the callused heart of the sport ("Boxin' is about respect--gettin' it for yourself, taking it away from the other guy"). Narrated with gravelly gravitas by Morgan Freeman, playing a washed-up fighter now mopping floors at a gym, the film stars Eastwood as a fatigued former trainer who reluctantly agrees to coach Maggie (Hilary Swank), a novice woman boxer tethered to her white-trash upbringing with a psychological bungee cord--the more she pulls away, the harder her past snaps back and hits her from behind. As a sports film, Million Dollar Baby is among the finest, but in the later rounds Eastwood delivers a stunning left hook that takes the narrative into the depths of the human soul. Taking home Oscars for Best Picture, Director, Actress (Swank), and Supporting Actor (Freeman), among others, this is easily Eastwood's best since his Academy Award-winning 1992 film Unforgiven. Highly recommended. (R. Blackwelder) Copyright Video Librarian Reviews 2005.