

Million Dollar Baby
Beyond his silence, there is a past. Beyond her dreams, there is a feeling. Beyond hope, there is a memory. Beyond their journey, there is a love.
Despondent over a painful estrangement from his daughter, trainer Frankie Dunn isn't prepared for boxer Maggie Fitzgerald to enter his life. But Maggie's determined to go pro and to convince Dunn and his cohort to help her.
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- Status
- Released
- Budget
- $30M
- Box office
- $216.8M
- Language
- English
- dying and death
- transporter
- strong woman
- stroke of fate
- advancement
- sports
- fight
- suicide attempt
- boxer
- training
- tragedy
- female protagonist
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United States of America, Switzerland
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Release dates
IndiaIN
- Theatrical11 Mar 2005
United StatesUS
- PremiereNew York City, New York5 Dec 2004
- Theatrical (limited)PG-1315 Dec 2004
- Theatrical28 Jan 2005
United KingdomGB
- Theatrical12A14 Jan 2005
United Arab EmiratesAE
- Theatrical23 Feb 2005
AustraliaAU
- TheatricalM3 Feb 2005
CanadaCA
- Theatrical5 Dec 2004
ArgentinaAR
- PremiereBuenos Aires5 Feb 2005
- Theatrical10 Feb 2005
AustriaAT
- Theatrical121 Apr 2005
BelgiumBE
- Theatrical30 Mar 2005
BrazilBR
- Theatrical1211 Feb 2005
BulgariaBG
- Theatrical15 Jul 2005
ChileCL
- Theatrical24 Feb 2005
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Million Dollar Baby was released on 5 December 2004.
Audience reviews
4- W6/10
Wuchak
12/19/2018
***Female “Rocky” with a downbeat and contradictory close*** Released in 2004 and directed by Clint Eastwood, “Million Dollar Baby” stars Eastwood as a cantankerous boxing trainer who owns a working class gym in Los Angeles, which is maintained by one of his former boxers, the narrator of the story (Morgan Freeman). A waitress from the sticks of Missouri (Hilary Swank) shows up and asks that Frankie (Eastwood) tra…
- R10/10
r96sk
2/9/2022
Unreal! I didn't expect <em>'Million Dollar Baby'</em> to be so astonishingly brilliant. I've said it many a time before but for full context, I do not read up about films before watching them - aside from making sure the film isn't part of a franchise, checking the run time and seeing the genre - so I was expecting this to be a cliché-filled, but still great, sports flick. It's so much more than that. It's way…
- T3/10
The Movie Mob
11/23/2022
**Million Dollar Baby is an extremely well-done film that takes an abrupt turn to deal with incredibly sobering subjects that are definitely not what I thought I signed up for.** I know it’s supposedly a masterpiece, and I will lose some cred for saying this, but Million Dollar Baby was a dreadful movie. I spent the first half of the film falling in love with the hopeful, talented, and inspiring Maggie Fitzgerald …
- C7/10
CinemaSerf
1/25/2026
The curmudgeonly “Frankie” (Clint Eastwood) runs a boxing gym with his stalwart “Eddie” (Morgan Freeman) that’s full of testosterone-charged no-hopers like “Berry” (Anthony Mackie) all going through the motions. The only exception is the young “Barch” (Jay Baruchel) who fancies himself as the best welterweight in the world, but who clearly couldn’t pull a pint let alone a punch. One afternoon, they notice a girl. Yep…
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