Million Dollar Baby Thesis

Million Dollar Baby is an inspirational film. Directed and filmed by Clint Eastwood in 2004, Million Dollar Baby is a movie featuring a young woman, Maggie Fitzgerald, who is from a dysfunctional, poor family. Maggie has a passion to one day become a boxer. She frequently visits a gym owned by a man named Frankie Dunn. Frankie is an older man and has owned the gym for a long time with his only friend Eddie Dupris. Eddie goes by the nickname Scrap. Eddie Dupris use to be a boxer however, he is now the janitor of the gym. Frankie Dunn has trained and worked with several boxers that have been successful in their fighting career. Million Dollar Baby is a great motivational movie which follows Maggie's passion for boxing and her efforts to be a boxer. Her passion and perseverance are one of the reasons I enjoyed this movie so much. At the beginning of the film Maggie comes to Frankie's gym hoping that Frankie will train her. Frankie is reluctant about training a woman especially one from the lower class that has no experience with boxing. That does not stop Maggie and she visits Frankie's gym constantly to use the punching bag. Scrap gives Maggie pointers on how to improve her boxing skills. Maggie's

Maggie is still waitressing at thirty-one. Her father died when she was young. Frankie Dunn struggles with trusting people, except Eddie Dupris, after a painful estrangement with his daughter. The movie does not tell us what happened between Frankie and his daughter but we know that he sends her letters which are always come back marked "return to sender". Trying to cope with this problem causes Frankie to head off to church every Sunday. Frankie's trust issues slowly change when he meets Maggie. As the relationship between Frankie and Maggie develops they begin to fill the void in their lives. Frankie becomes the father figure Maggie never had and Maggie becomes the daughter Frankie never