If you go to see "Million $ Baby" with Morgan Freeman, Clint Eastwood and Hilary Swank, take a few boxes of kleenex.
Makeup -- even waterproof - has no prayer with this one.
I love movies and stories where not everything is said...that there are some mysteries to what happens...this story leaves you to fill in blanks about relationships. The imagination is always better than the real thing, and this movie allows you to imagine and create powerful ideas about the intricacies of plot.
It is a first-rate movie for all three actors...Hilary Swank gets my vote just for playing roles that aren't always "pretty". The only distraction in the movie is from a sub-actor (Danger) who goes a little too far in his rendition of an Arkansas hillbilly.
The scene where Hilary (Maggie) gives her welfare mother a house is so realistic, so true to what I have personally experienced that it resonated inherently with me. Dead on.
All characters in the movie have their issues, their challenges. Life has beaten them all down and all are fighting for something...and as you watch it, you realize that you, too, are fighting..that we all are fighting ...for a chance, for a blessing, for anything that tells us "we had our shot".
Great movie-making and a great movie-going experience.
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