Million Dollar Baby (2004)
2004 film by Clint Eastwood
- Released
- 2004
- Country
- United States
- Language
- English, Irish
- Genre
- Boxing film
- Director
- Clint Eastwood
- Screenplay
- Paul Haggis, F.X. Toole
- Producer
- Clint Eastwood, Albert S. Ruddy, Paul Haggis, Tom Rosenberg
- Music
- Clint Eastwood
- Cinematography
- Tom Stern
- Editing
- Joel Cox
- Starring
- Hilary Swank, Clint Eastwood, Morgan Freeman, Jay Baruchel, Mike Colter, Lucia Rijker, Brían F. O'Byrne, Anthony Mackie
- Running time
- 132 minutes
- Production company
- Lakeshore Entertainment, Malpaso Productions, Warner Bros. Entertainment
- Distributor
- Warner Bros. Entertainment, Netflix
- Box office
- $216.8 million
- Budget
- $30 million
- Set in
- Los Angeles
Million Dollar Baby is a 2004 American sports drama film directed, co-produced, scored by and starring Clint Eastwood from a screenplay by Paul Haggis. It is based on stories from the 2000 collection Rope Burns: Stories from the Corner by F.X. Toole, the pen name of fight manager and cutman Jerry Boyd, and also stars Hilary Swank and Morgan Freeman. The film follows Margaret "Maggie" Fitzgerald (Swank), an underdog amateur boxer who is helped by an underappreciated boxing trainer (Eastwood) to achieve her dream of becoming a professional.
Cast
- Hilary Swank
- Clint Eastwood
- Morgan Freeman
- Jay Baruchel
- Mike Colter
- Lucia Rijker
- Brían F. O'Byrne
- Anthony Mackie
- Margo Martindale
- Riki Lindhome
- Jude Ciccolella
- Benito Martinez
- Bruce MacVittie
- Dave Powledge
- Joe D'Angerio
- Marcus Chait
- Tom McCleister
- Morgan Eastwood
- Jamison Yang
- Ned Eisenberg
- Brian T. Finney
- Spice Williams-Crosby
- Kim Strauss
- Susan Krebs
Nominations
- Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor
- Academy Award for Best Actor
- Academy Award for Best Actress
- Academy Award for Best Director
- Academy Award for Best Film Editing
- Academy Award for Best Writing, Adapted Screenplay
- Academy Award for Best Picture
External links
Facts from Wikidata Q184255 (CC0); quoted introduction from English Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0). Data retrieved 2026-10-22.
Data: Wikidata (CC0 1.0); Wikipedia (English) (CC BY-SA 4.0). Retrieved 2026-10-22.