Million Dollar Baby [HD DVD] | ![Million Dollar Baby [HD DVD]](http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51iM6MKreZL._SL500_.jpg) | Director: Clint Eastwood
Actors: Clint Eastwood, Hilary Swank, Morgan Freeman
Studio: Warner Home Video
Category: DVD
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Rating:  515 reviews
Sales Rank: 41461
Format: Anamorphic, Color, Dolby, Subtitled, Widescreen
Languages: English (Original Language), French (Original Language), English (Subtitled), Spanish (Subtitled), French (Subtitled)
Rating: PG-13 (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Media: HD DVD
Region: 0
Aspect Ratio: 2.40:1
Number Of Discs: 1
Running Time: 132 Minutes
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1
Dimensions (in): 7.1 x 5.4 x 0.6
MPN: MILLIONDOL
UPC: 012569809376
EAN: 0012569809376
ASIN: B000E5KJCU
Theatrical Release Date: January 28, 2005
Release Date: April 18, 2006
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| • | Actors: Clint Eastwood, Hilary Swank, Morgan Freeman | | • | Run Time: 132 Minutes | | • | Format: AC-3, Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, Dubbed | | • | Directors: Clint Eastwood |
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Actors: Clint Eastwood, Hilary Swank, Morgan Freeman, Jay Baruchel, Mike Colter, See more Directors: Clint Eastwood Format: AC-3, Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, Dubbed, Subtitled, Widescreen, NTSC Region: Region 1 (U.S. and Canada only. Read more about DVD formats.) Aspect Ratio: 2.35:1 Number of discs: 2 Rating Studio: Warner Home Video DVD Release Date: July 12, 2005 Run Time: 132 minutes DVD Features: Available Subtitles: English, Spanish, French Available Audio Tracks: English (Dolby Digital 5.1), French (Dolby Digital 5.1) James Lipton Takes on Three: 25-minute 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
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Clint Eastwood's 25th film as a director, Million Dollar Baby stands proudly with Unforgiven and Mystic River as the masterwork of a great American filmmaker. In an age of bloated spectacle and computer-generated effects extravaganzas, Eastwood turns an elegant screenplay by Paul Haggis (adapted from the book Rope Burns: Stories From the Corner by F.X. Toole, a pseudonym for veteran boxing manager Jerry Boyd) into a simple, humanitarian example of classical filmmaking, as deeply felt in its heart-wrenching emotions as it is streamlined in its character-driven storytelling. In the course of developing powerful bonds between "white-trash" Missouri waitress and aspiring boxer Maggie Fitzgerald (Hilary Swank), her grizzled, reluctant trainer Frankie Dunn (Eastwood), and Frankie's best friend and training-gym partner Eddie "Scrap-Iron" Dupris (Morgan Freeman), 74-year-old Eastwood mines gold from each and every character, resulting in stellar work from his well-chosen cast. Containing deep reserves of love, loss, and the universal desire for something better in hard-scrabble lives, Million Dollar Baby emerged, quietly and gracefully, as one of the most acclaimed films of 2004, released just in time to earn an abundance of year-end accolades, all of them well-deserved. --Jeff Shannon
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 Million Dollar Baby (Full Screen Edition) February 10, 2010
Arnita D. Brown (USA)
Frankie Dunn has trained and managed some incredible fighters during a lifetime spent in the ring. The most important lesson he teaches his boxers is the one that rules life: above all, always protect yourself. In the wake of a painful estrangement from his daughter, Frankie has been unwilling to let himself get close to anyone for a very long time. His only friend, Scrap, an ex-boxer who looks after Frankie's gym, knows that beneath his gruff exterior is a man who has been seeking, for the past 25 years, the forgiveness that somehow continues to elude him. Then Maggie Fitzgerald walks into his gym. "Million Dollar Baby" has great characters, but it doesn't glorify them. It has a wonderful story, but it never tries to impress you. The photography, score and direction is superb, but never distracting. What this movie has is passion. Passion for film-making, passion for storytelling, passion for its characters, passion for its actors, and passion for its story and the means at which it will go to tell it. Amazing.
Finally a great movie - I guess now the planet can go back to spinning again December 25, 2009
Voice in the Wilderness (Northern California, USA)
As 2009 comes to a close I feel that I should share the few gems that I feel blessed enough to have seen during the last decade, and what better review to do that on than the one that gets my vote for #1 movie of the decade? Joe Dirt, Hearts in Atlantis, Vanilla Sky, Naqoyqatsi, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, the Passion of the Christ, the Motorcycle Diaries, Million Dollar Baby, Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room, Into the Wild, Terrorstorm, the Painted Veil, Endgame, the Money Masters, Gran Torino, and Rothschild's Choice. I probably forgot a few. So, and not counting the excellent documentaries made during the last decade, Million Dollar Baby gets my vote for movie of the decade. I feel that it is a powerful testament about the pain that is often found in this life, and also of the power that will be found within the human spirit of endurance, as it has always responded in the face of adversity. Congratulations Clint Eastwood, you've proven yourself a competent director while remaining the excellent actor that you have always been.
Kept me wondering December 12, 2009
The Haze (USA)
Geeze this was a good movie, but I wish they would have let us know what happened to the evil German prostitute/boxer. Kind of left me feeling empty on that one big point.
Clint at his best! December 2, 2009
Matthew C. Hoger (Iowa)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
The first thing I do when I read user reviews for a film is go to the opposite of my opinion. So in the case of Million Dollar Baby, I directly went to the area where people rated this film only 1 star and read their reviews. Interesting to say the least. I feel some people just miss the boat on this film and what type of story its trying to tell. It's a story of stubbornness and the will to do whatever it takes to be the best, and how all of that can be taken from you in a single moment. To cherish the opportunities we have in life and to leave everything we've got on the table. Yes, it's not a happy story, it's not sold as a feel good film! I'm not sure why people are confused by this. But the film ultimately is inspiring because Hilary Swank's character is selfless and does everything she can to achieve her dreams.
Okay, another thing. This is NOT a pro-euthanasia movie. I hope that I haven't spoiled anything for someone reading this, but I had to say something regarding so many people writing this in the 1-star section. I'm sure if you loved someone you wouldn't want them suffering, especially in the sense that the character is in the movie.
In the end, this is an obvious Best Picture winner. Expertly crafted like Clint always does, superbly acted, and has an excellent pace, this is a definite must-see, if not own. I highly recommend it, let alone just about anything Eastwood has directed because he just knows how to get it done.
A Contemporary classic gets even better. December 2, 2009
D. Alves (New Jersey)
Million Dollar Baby was a film that actually desrved the honor of winning the Best Picture Oscar. It is gripping, real, and the acting is superior. Clint Eastwood, Hilary Swank, and Morgan Freeman blend together so well in this movie, and make it flow so perfectly.
This is the second copy of the movie I purchased, I very rarely ever do that, but I wanted to see it on Blu-ray. The extra expense paid off, it's even better than it was on the 2 disc special edition I already owned.
If you love this movie as much as I do, add the Blu-ray edition to your library.
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