Million Dollar Baby

Not the most pleasant experience I've had but that's not the film's fault, it's its success.
The two male leads (Eastwood & Freeman) were superb - completely believable as two old stagers: been around, seen & done most but just not quite made it. The regrets, mistakes & lost chances might be piled on top but they were still fighting - excellent. Made me sad to think of their passing (the characters & the actors), so accurate were their portrayals - I'm already missing them both.
Some of the fight scenes looked a bit too quick to be true but I felt them even so.

Hillary Swank deserved the award but I was less taken with the feisty no-hoper from Trailer-Park Land - probably an age thing.
To some extent the plot was standard (underdog makes good until . . . but then comes back*) but it was the little details (Dunn's visits with the priest, the interplay between Dunn & Scap-Iron), that made the whole piece complete.

Excellent film but hard to watch

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0405159/