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She begins working inexpertly on a punching bag, with the avowed intention of becoming a boxing champion under Frankie’s tutelage. In line with the lower-class sociology of boxing, the fighters in the gym are either black or Latino-at least until Maggie Fitzgerald (Hilary Swank) shows up. Yeats in the original Gaelic being one of his atonement rituals.
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Frankie virtually besieges Father Horvak (Brian O’Byrne), his parish priest, for advice on suitably atoning for his past sins, with studying to read W.B. Another demon: the many letters returned unopened from Frankie’s estranged daughter, to whom he nonetheless keeps writing regularly. One of the many demons in Frankie’s guilt-ridden past is Scrap’s partial blindness, incurred when Frankie managed him in a title fight that ended Scrap’s boxing career.
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The picture begins with Frankie managing a promising young heavyweight, Big Willie Little (Mike Colter), but after several impressive victories, Big Willie walks out on Frankie because the manager is reluctant to set up a title fight. The two buddies’ petty-squabbling camaraderie resembles that of an old married couple, much like their magically bonded gunfighters in Mr. Along with his buddy and onetime fighter Eddie (Scrap) Dupris, played by Morgan Freeman, Frankie runs an old-timers’ gym in downtown Los Angeles, which also doubles as the place that Scrap sleeps. Eastwood, a remarkably energetic 74, plays grizzled fight trainer Frankie Dunn. Adapted from a screenplay by Paul Haggis, Million Dollar Baby is based on a collection of stories entitled Rope Burns: Stories from the Corner, by veteran boxing cut-man F.X.