Million Dollar Baby Resources
Websites
Click "Like" if you know how Scrap gets that ice in those water bottles.
This is the closest you're going to get to an official movie site. The URL milliondollarbaby.com whisks you away to fancy baby furniture.
No, really.
Book or TV Adaptations
Here it is: F.X. Toole's original collection of short stories from which the movie's Oscar-nominated script was adapted.
Articles and Interviews
He liked it! He really liked it!
Surprise! Scott dug it, too.
Susan Wioszczyna examines the controversy surrounding the movie, the offense taken by conservative pundits, and the ethical questions posed by spoilers. This flick got a lot of people worked up.
More Ebert. This time the Chicago critic weighs in on the "To Spoil or Not To Spoil?" debate.
"I must say that the first time I ever heard about women boxing I thought, 'This is an odd sport for a woman to do.'"
Frank Rich has a different take on what it is about Million Dollar Baby that got people all riled up.
Eastwood addresses the hullabaloo around his boxing movie with FOX News' favorite son.
The New York Times' Wes Davis examines the movie's use, and misuse, of the Irish language.
Film critic Jeff Shannon, himself a C5-6 quadriplegic, offers his unique take on the media firestorm that engulfed Eastwood's Oscar winner.
Video
In which Warner Brothers whets your appetite for boxing…and emotion!
This guy sure has a lot of rules.
For once, she doesn't knock her opponent out in, like, four seconds.
There are fights, and then there are fights.
Scrap: "Um, no you didn't."
By her own count, she says "real" a million times.
In this clip, Eastwood talks about Hilary Swank's training. Girlfriend put on close to twenty pounds of muscle.
And presenter Barbra Streisand really hams it up.
At age 74, Eastwood became the oldest person to win Best Director. He brought his 96 year-old mother, Ruth, as one of his dates.
Knocking out Annette Bening, Catalina Sandino Moreno, Imelda Staunton, and Kate Winslet.
In a lovely tribute to Scrap, he was just hanging around backstage in the dark, waiting to overhear his name.
The Guy Without Glasses gives Frankie and Maggie's story the TL;DR treatment.
Audio
This is the Clint Eastwood-penned main theme from Million Dollar Baby. Variations of it appear all throughout the movie.
This track accompanies Frankie's big decision, hence the clever title.
Images
Million Dollar Baby is the 25th film he directed.
Just before the crew asked the Oscar winning actress to please stop punching the expensive cameras.
Scrap chillin' in the shadows, as always.
Go on, Swank. Show that back off. You earned it.
Promotional lobby cards used to be all the rage back in the day. Today? Not so much—at least not in the U.S.
Check out Clint's swanky, "Mo Cuishle" green bowtie!