Behind the Scenes
Director
Clint EastwoodFine wines. Your favorite jeans. The stinkiest of stinky cheeses. Some things just get better with age. Clint Eastwood was 74 years old when he directed Million Dollar Baby, his 25th...
Screenwriter
Paul HaggisBoxing Rings, Bull Fights, and Bookshelves… Oh My!F.X. Toole is one seriously patient dude.It took the former boxing manager, bartender, and bullfighter forty years to get his...
Production Studio
Warner BrothersWarner Brothers knows how to roll with the punches—it's the not-so-secret secret to their success. When talkies were invented in the 1920s, Warner Brothers was one of the first stu...
Production Design
Million Dollar Baby begs to be watched with the curtains drawn and the lights down low. It isn't afraid to go dark—figuratively and literally. The movie has the look and feel of a gritty, '40s fi...
Music (Score)
Clint EastwoodActor. Director. Composer. Clint Eastwood's a triple threat."Graceful," probably isn't the first word that comes to mind when you hear Eastwood's name (we think "serape", personally),...
Fandoms
Let's cut to the chase: Million Dollar Baby is a moving, powerful, thoroughly dramatic movie. It has boxing, it has lemon pie, and it has assisted suicide. It does not, however, have a huge fandom....