Million Dollar Baby Resources
Websites
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Click "Like" if you know how Scrap gets that ice in those water bottles.
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This is the closest you're going to get to an official movie site. The URL milliondollarbaby.com whisks you away to fancy baby furniture.
No, really.
Book or TV Adaptations
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Here it is: F.X. Toole's original collection of short stories from which the movie's Oscar-nominated script was adapted.
Articles and Interviews
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He liked it! He really liked it!
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Surprise! Scott dug it, too.
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Susan Wioszczyna examines the controversy surrounding the movie, the offense taken by conservative pundits, and the ethical questions posed by spoilers. This flick got a lot of people worked up.
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More Ebert. This time the Chicago critic weighs in on the "To Spoil or Not To Spoil?" debate.
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"I must say that the first time I ever heard about women boxing I thought, 'This is an odd sport for a woman to do.'"
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Frank Rich has a different take on what it is about Million Dollar Baby that got people all riled up.
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Eastwood addresses the hullabaloo around his boxing movie with FOX News' favorite son.
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The New York Times' Wes Davis examines the movie's use, and misuse, of the Irish language.
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Film critic Jeff Shannon, himself a C5-6 quadriplegic, offers his unique take on the media firestorm that engulfed Eastwood's Oscar winner.
Video
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In which Warner Brothers whets your appetite for boxing…and emotion!
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This guy sure has a lot of rules.
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For once, she doesn't knock her opponent out in, like, four seconds.
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There are fights, and then there are fights.
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Scrap: "Um, no you didn't."
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By her own count, she says "real" a million times.
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In this clip, Eastwood talks about Hilary Swank's training. Girlfriend put on close to twenty pounds of muscle.
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And presenter Barbra Streisand really hams it up.
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At age 74, Eastwood became the oldest person to win Best Director. He brought his 96 year-old mother, Ruth, as one of his dates.
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Knocking out Annette Bening, Catalina Sandino Moreno, Imelda Staunton, and Kate Winslet.
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In a lovely tribute to Scrap, he was just hanging around backstage in the dark, waiting to overhear his name.
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The Guy Without Glasses gives Frankie and Maggie's story the TL;DR treatment.
Audio
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This is the Clint Eastwood-penned main theme from Million Dollar Baby. Variations of it appear all throughout the movie.
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This track accompanies Frankie's big decision, hence the clever title.
Images
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Million Dollar Baby is the 25th film he directed.
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Just before the crew asked the Oscar winning actress to please stop punching the expensive cameras.
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Scrap chillin' in the shadows, as always.
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Go on, Swank. Show that back off. You earned it.
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Promotional lobby cards used to be all the rage back in the day. Today? Not so much—at least not in the U.S.
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Check out Clint's swanky, "Mo Cuishle" green bowtie!