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Million Dollar Baby (5*)
Bring the Kleenex box for this one; it's a tear jerker. Hillary Swank shines as a hillbilly waitress come to town to pursue her dream - and one hope - of becoming a prize fighter. And she succeeds with the help of gym owner and trainer Clint Eastwood and his employee Morgan Freeman. The movie could have stopped there, but after a tragedy in the ring, it goes down a different path, just as Mystic River went beyond just another kidnapping whodunnit. And Eastwood maintains a delicate balance with the Swank character (Maggie Fitzgerald.) We might suspect the gruff, cynical gym owner to eventually thaw to the cute Maggie - and he does, but not in the typical way. He maintains more of a father-daughter love than a romance that is much more interesting than a lust-based bond.
Eastwood recycles some of his personal music scoring from Mystic River for MDB, but it works just fine.
Eastwood's films have evolved and improved steadily and MDB shows that Mystic River was no fluke.
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2/18/2005, 12:29 pm
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