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Adapted for the screen by Emmy-winning
screenwriter Paul Haggis, Million Dollar Baby is based on a
short story from the collection Rope Burns, by F.X. Toole.
Toole spent years working as a “cut man” – the
member of a boxer’s team whose job it is to patch up his
injuries so he can continue fighting – and his stories vividly
capture the essence of life in the ring. Legendary producer/director/actor Clint Eastwood chose Million Dollar Baby as the follow-up to his highly acclaimed, Academy Award-winning 2003 drama Mystic River upon reading Haggis’ script. “What interested me about Million Dollar Baby is the fact that it isn’t really a boxing story,” Eastwood says. |
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