Morgan Freeman as Eddie "Scrap-Iron" Dupris, Dunn's gym assistant and former boxer. Hilary Swank as Mary Margaret "Maggie" Fitzgerald, a determined, aspiring boxer trained up by Frankie Dunn. Clint Eastwood as Frankie Dunn, a gruff but well-meaning elderly boxing trainer. Scrap's narration is revealed to be a letter to Frankie's daughter, informing her of her father's actual true character. Just before administering a fatal injection of adrenaline, he tells Maggie the meaning of "mo chuisle": "my darling, and my blood." He never returns to the gym. Frankie then sneaks into the hospital one night, unaware that Scrap is watching from the shadows. Knowing the fatherly affection Frankie has developed for Maggie, Frankie's priest warns him that he would never find himself again if he were to go through with Maggie's request. Frankie refuses, so Maggie later bites off her own tongue in an attempt to bleed to death. She then asks Frankie to help her die, declaring that she got everything she wanted out of life. Maggie soon develops bedsores and undergoes an amputation for an infected leg. Disgusted, she orders them to leave and threatens to report their welfare fraud if they try to contact her again. Accompanied by an attorney, their sole concern is to get Maggie's assets transferred to them. They arrive only after first touring Disneyland and Universal Studios Hollywood. While in the hospital, Maggie looks forward to a visit from her family. Maggie lands hard on her corner stool, breaking her neck and leaving her a ventilator-dependent quadriplegic. Maggie begins to dominate the fight, but Billie knocks her out with an illegal sucker punch from behind after the bell rings to end the round. He secures Maggie a $1 million match in Las Vegas against the WBA women's welterweight champion, Billie "The Blue Bear" Osterman, a German ex-prostitute who has a reputation as an unpunished dirty fighter. The two travel to Europe as she continues to win Maggie eventually saves up enough of her winnings to buy her mother a house, but her mother berates Maggie for endangering her government aid, claiming that everyone back home is laughing at her.įrankie is finally willing to arrange a title fight. Frankie bestows Maggie a Gaelic nickname, embroidered on her boxing robe, Mo Chuisle (misspelled in the film as "mo cuishle"), but does not tell her its meaning. Scrap, concerned when Frankie rejects several offers for big fights, arranges a meeting for Maggie with Mickey Mack but, out of loyalty to Frankie, she declines. Since she has earned a reputation for quick KOs, Frankie must resort to bribery to get other managers to put their trainee fighters up against her. Maggie fights her way up in the women's amateur boxing division with Frankie's coaching. Frankie then reluctantly agrees to train Maggie. Eddie "Scrap-Iron" Dupris, Frankie's friend and employee-the film's narrator-encourages and helps Maggie.įrankie's prize prospect, "Big Willie" Little, signs with successful manager Mickey Mack after becoming impatient with Frankie rejecting offers for a championship bout. 
Maggie asks Frankie to train her, but he refuses as he does not train women and she is too old to begin a boxing career. Dunn is a cantankerous Irish-American trainer, revealed to be estranged from his own daughter. Margaret "Maggie" Fitzgerald, a waitress from the Ozarks, shows up at the Hit Pit, a rundown Los Angeles gym owned and operated by Frankie Dunn.
The film garnered seven nominations at the 77th Academy Awards and won four: Best Picture, Best Director, Best Actress (for Swank), and Best Supporting Actor (for Freeman). It received critical acclaim and grossed $216.8 million worldwide. Million Dollar Baby was theatrically released on December 15, 2004, by Warner Bros.
The film follows Margaret "Maggie" Fitzgerald (Swank), an underdog amateur boxer who is helped by an underappreciated boxing trainer (Eastwood) to achieve her dream of becoming a professional. It also stars Hilary Swank, and Morgan Freeman. Toole, the pen name of fight manager and cutman Jerry Boyd. Million Dollar Baby is a 2004 American sports drama film directed, co-produced, scored by and starring Clint Eastwood from a screenplay written by Paul Haggis, based on stories from the 2000 collection Rope Burns: Stories from the Corner by F.X.
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