Million Dollar Baby

Million Dollar Baby
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Directed byClint Eastwood
Screenplay byPaul Haggis
Based onStories from Rope Burns
by F.X. Toole
Produced by
Starring
CinematographyTom Stern
Edited byJoel Cox
Music byClint Eastwood
Production
companies
Distributed byWarner Bros. Pictures (North America)
Lakeshore International (International)
Release dates
  • December 5, 2004 (2004-12-05) (New York City)
  • January 21, 2005 (2005-01-21) (United States)
Running time
132 minutes[1]
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish
Budget$30 million[2][3]
Box office$216.8 million[4]

Million Dollar Baby is a 2004 American sports drama movie directed, co-produced, and scored by Clint Eastwood from a screenplay written by Paul Haggis. It is based on short stories by F.X. Toole.[5]

It stars Eastwood, Hilary Swank, and Morgan Freeman.

Million Dollar Baby was theatrically released on December 15, 2004, by Warner Bros. Pictures. It received critical acclaim and grossed $216.8 million. The movie won four Academy Awards for Best Picture, Best Director, Best Actress (for Swank), and Best Supporting Actor (for Freeman). The movie is 132 minutes long. It is rated PG-13.

References

  1. ↑ Ebert, Roger (7 January 2005). "Million Dollar Baby". Chicago Sun-Times. Archived from the original on July 25, 2020. Retrieved November 26, 2007 – via RogerEbert.com.
  2. ↑ Eliot 2009, p. 309.
  3. ↑ Hughes 2009, p. 156.
  4. ↑ "Million Dollar Baby (2004)". Box Office Mojo. Retrieved 1 January 2021.
  5. ↑ Another possible real-life Maggie Fitzgerald

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