Several studios rejected the project even when Eastwood signed on as actor and director. The film was stuck in development hell for years before it was shot.
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Bruce MacVittie as Mickey Mack, a rival of Dunn.Īfter being fired from the television series Family Law, Haggis wrote the script on spec, and it took four years to sell it.Trained Hilary Swank off screen for her Academy Award-winning role. Michael Peña as Omar, a boxer and Shawrelle's best friend.Riki Lindhome as Mardell Fitzgerald, Maggie's welfare-cheating sister.Fitzgerald, Maggie's incarcerated, just released brother. Margo Martindale as Earline Fitzgerald, Maggie's selfish mother.Anthony Mackie as Shawrelle Berry, an overzealous boxer and frequent tenant of Dunn's gym.O'Byrne as Father Horvak, the priest of the church which Dunn attends, who cannot stand Dunn. Lucia Rijker as Billie "The Blue Bear" Osterman, a former prostitute and vicious boxer.Mike Colter as "Big" Willie Little, a boxer whom Dunn has trained for years.Jay Baruchel as Dangerous Dillard Fighting Flippo Bam-Bam Barch or "Danger", a simpleton would-be boxer.Morgan Freeman as Eddie "Scrap-Iron" Dupris, Dunn's gym assistant an elderly former boxer, he was blinded in one eye in his 109th, and last, fight.Hilary Swank as Mary Margaret "Maggie" Fitzgerald, a determined, aspiring boxer trained up by Frankie Dunn.Clint Eastwood as Frankie Dunn, a gruff but well-meaning elderly boxing trainer.Scrap's narration is revealed to be a letter to Frankie's daughter, informing her of her father's true character. Just before administering a fatal injection of adrenaline, he tells Maggie the meaning of "mo cuishle", "my darling, and my blood". Knowing the fatherly affection Frankie has developed for Maggie, Frankie's priest warns him that he would never find himself again if he were to go through with Maggie's request.įrankie then sneaks into the hospital one night, unaware that Scrap is watching from the shadows. Frankie refuses, and Maggie later bites her tongue repeatedly in an attempt to drown in her own blood. She then asks a favor of Frankie: to help her die, declaring that she got everything she wanted out of life. Maggie soon develops bedsores and undergoes an amputation for an infected leg. Disgusted, she orders them to leave and threatens to report their welfare fraud if they try to contact her again. They arrive only after first touring Disneyland and Universal Studios Hollywood, and accompanied by an attorney their sole concern is to get Maggie's assets transferred to them. While in the hospital, Maggie looks forward to a visit from her family. Maggie lands hard on her corner stool, breaking her neck and leaving her a ventilator-dependent quadriplegic. Maggie begins to dominate the fight, but Billie knocks her out with an illegal sucker punch from behind after the bell rings to end the round.
He secures Maggie a $1 million match in Las Vegas against the WBA women's welterweight champion, Billie "The Blue Bear" Osterman, a German ex-prostitute who has a reputation as an unpunished dirty fighter. The two travel to Europe as she continues to win Maggie eventually saves up enough of her winnings to buy her mother a house, but her mother berates Maggie for endangering her government aid, claiming that everyone back home is laughing at her.įrankie is finally willing to arrange a title fight. Frankie bestows Maggie a Gaelic nickname, embroidered on her boxing robe, Mo Chuisle (misspelled in the film as "mo cuishle"), but doesn't tell her its meaning. Scrap, concerned when Frankie rejects several offers for big fights, arranges a meeting for Maggie with Mickey Mack but, out of loyalty to Frankie, she declines. Since she has earned a reputation for quick KOs, Frankie must resort to bribery to get other managers to put their trainee fighters up against her. Maggie fights her way up in the women's amateur boxing division with Frankie's coaching. Frankie then reluctantly agrees to train Maggie. Eddie "Scrap-Iron" Dupris ( Morgan Freeman), Frankie's friend and employee - and the film's narrator - encourages and helps Maggie.įrankie's prize prospect, "Big Willie" Little, signs with successful manager Mickey Mack after becoming impatient with Frankie rejecting offers for a championship bout.
Maggie asks Frankie to train her, but he refuses as he doesn't train women and she's too old to begin a boxing career. Dunn is a cantankerous Irish-American trainer, revealed to be estranged from his daughter.
Margaret "Maggie" Fitzgerald ( Hilary Swank), a waitress from the Ozarks, shows up at the Hit Pit, a rundown Los Angeles gym owned and operated by Frankie Dunn ( Clint Eastwood).
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