Million Dollar Baby / Mystic River (DVD) Region 4.
Million Dollar Baby: Clint Eastwood plays boxing trainer, Frankie Dunn, a man who has become emotionally locked up and unable to allow himself to get close to anyone since a painful estrangement from his daughter. Frankie runs an LA gym with ex-boxer, Eddie Scrap-Iron (Morgan Freeman) who narrates the story. Into Frankies life walks Maggie Fitzgerald (Hilary Swank), a young woman whose life has been a constant struggle but who is determined to be a boxer with Frankie as her trainer. Frankie tells her she is too old and that he does not train girls but by sheer force of will, she wins him over and he takes her on. Their relationship is both confrontational and inspiring for both as they head towards a championship match at which point tragedy strikes and the two discover that in each other they have been able to overcome the losses of their pasts.Mystic River: When they were kids growing up together in a rough section of Boston, Jimmy Markum, Dave Boyle and Sean Devine spent their days playing stick ball on the street, the way most boys did in their blue collar neighbourhood of East Buckingham. Nothing much out of the ordinary ever happened, until a moment's decision drastically altered the course of each of their lives forever. Twenty five years later, the three find themselves thrust back together by another tragic event the murder of Jimmy's 19 year old daughter.
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