If you’re a fan of sports films (or even if you’re not), you have come to the right place. Because, for this weekend, we are back again with an awesome binge watch recommendation for our readers.
Today, we give you a critically acclaimed boxing drama which will undoubtedly tug your heartstrings. We’re talking about Clint Eastwood’s movie ‘Million Dollar Baby’, which has recently started streaming in India on the Amazon Prime Video OTT platform. And we highly recommend you watch it in case you still haven’t for any reason.
Directed by living legend Clint Eastwood and with a screenplay by Paul Haggis (Crash, Casino Royale), the movie features Hilary Swank in the role of an aspiring professional boxer named Maggie. She badly wants to be trained by the veteran but reclusive boxing trainer Frankie (Clint Eastwood), whose only friend is his associate Eddie (Morgan Freeman). Eventually, the reluctant Frankie decides to take Maggie under his wings, but the goings-on take a dramatic turn after a heart-breaking incident happens.
Academy Award winner Clint Eastwood has directed several fine films in the past like ‘Sully’, ‘Mystic River’, and ‘Unforgiven’, but ‘Million Dollar Baby’ is different and special in its own way.
The movie had bagged four well deserved major Oscar Awards for the ‘Best Picture’, ‘Best Actress’, ‘Best Direction’, and ‘Best Supporting Actor’ categories.
‘Million Dollar Baby’ holds a 90% critics’ score and is ‘Certified Fresh’ on reviews aggregation portal Rotten Tomatoes. Moreover, the film has received an IMDb user rating of 8.1/10. In case you somehow missed watching the movie earlier, then you can stream it on Amazon Prime Video. You can watch the film’s trailer below.
Million Dollar Baby Trailer –