Plot
Maggie (Hilary Swank), the immature female amateur world health organization aspires to prove her worth by becoming a successful boxer, is taken around by Frank Dunn (Clint Eastwood), who helps her inside realizing her goal when getting the stronger-than-blood attach. At the start, Dunn is cold-eyed toward Maggie because she occurs as 32-season-old female. Maggie, but, perseveres within her tries to benefit Dunn's favor by step by step instruction daily within his gymnasium, potentially after others come discouraging. Frank's friend & employee, ex-boxer Eddie Dupris (Morgan Freeman), sympathizes with Maggie's efforts & convinces Dunn to coach her short-short-run. (Dupris is besides a storyteller of a film, world health organization reveals the extent to which Maggie & Dunn's relationship transforms two their spends.)

Getting had there are no intimate relationship by using his have girl, Dunn forms the stronger attach by owning Maggie, whose personal doesn't care for her easily-welfare, & decidingly coaches & manages her broker career. By using his expertness, Maggie fights her way as much as a women's welterweight boxing division, one of these days placing the match within Las Vegas against the WBA women's welterweight champion who is known for her distasteful play. Maggie is severely paralyzed by the treacherous work of her bemire opponent, & Dunn consequently blames himself for her downfall with trained her against his better judgement. In the medical recovery facility, Maggie confides to Dunn that she has "seen it all" & asks to exist as freed of suffering. She tries suicide by biting her tongue multiple days within an attempt to bleed to dying. Her attempt fails since her efforts come subdued, however Dunn in the end commits euthanasia. When storyteller, Dupris states that Dunn so disappears. A film's story is revealed to exist as the narration by Dupris for Dunn's have girl, world health organization has forsaken him all the when, to inform her elusive father's confessedly character.

Awards
Million Dollar Binky users received a title of the Best Picture of 2004 at the 77th Academy Awards. Eastwood was awarded his 2nd Directing Oscar for the film and as well received the Best Actor nomination. Smartness & Freewoman received Best Actress and Best Supporting Actor Oscars. A film was besides nominated for the Film Editing and Writing Adapted Screenplay awards.

the film was too nominated for & won a total of Golden Globes, SAG Awards, & Directors's Guild Awards.

Criticism
Disability rights activists
Inside January & February 2005, a film became controversial after occasionally disability rights activists protested the ending of the film, where Frank carries out Maggie's wish to die when she becomes quadriplegic as a result of a spinal cord injury suffered during her previous fight. Large among these critics was John Hockenberry, long-time NPR & NBC correspondent & paraplegic.[http://www.milliondollarbigot.org/loser.html] [http://www.lifenews.com/bio674.html] [http://www.chicagoreader.com/hottype/2005/050128_1.html] The Weekly Standard also criticized the picture show for its ending & for lost chance. [http://www.weeklystandard.com/Content/Public/Articles/000/000/005/307qsmui.asp]

Christian Right and social conservatives
In a area of a equivalent instance, it was criticized by militant from either the Christian Right and social conservatives, including Rush Limbaugh and Michael Medved, on the same issue. Medved stated that: "My main objection to Million Dollar Baby always centered on its misleading marketing, and effort by Warner Brothers to sell it as a movie about a female Rocky, with barely a hint of the pitch-dark substance that led Andrew Sarris of the New York Observer (hardly a right-winger) to declare that 'no movie in my memory has depressed me more than Million Dollar Baby.'" [http://www.opinionjournal.com/la/?id=110006305]

Sportswriters
In the further topical level, Million Dollar Binky users has been criticized by a few sportswriters as being greatly erroneous & confusing from either the boxing perspective. [http://sports.espn.go.com/espn/page2/story?page=bayless/050225] A bit of Irish speakers have besides criticized a fact that a sentence Mo Chuisle wwhen misspelled in the film as Mo Cuishle. the sentence wwhen as well mistranslated in the film; all the same it was cited as one of virtually all influential phrases from either a Hollywood film that season. [http://www.languagemonitor.com/default.php] A moving-picture show has besides been praised for awakening interest in the Irish language. [http://www.nytimes.com/2005/02/26/opinion/26davis.html?ex=1267160400&en=63b9bdbd40e19929&ei=5090&partner=rssuserland]

Responses to criticism
Eastwood responded to a criticism by pointing out a picture was all about the U.s. dream. [http://www.nytimes.com/2005/02/13/arts/13rich.html?ex=1265778000&en=20285b456ee22b66&ei=5090&partnrer=rssuserland] Inside an locate by having a Los Angeles Times, Eastwood distanced himself from a actions of characters around his films, noting, "I've gone around in movies blowing people away with a .44 magnum. But that doesn't mean I think that's a proper thing to do" [http://www.newsday.com/custom/envelope/oscars/cl-wk-mdb27jan27,0,6604453.story?coll=cl-oscst]. Roger Ebert of the Chicago Sun Times, who known as the film his special of 2004, believes "a movie is not good or bad because of its content, but because of how it handles its content. Million Dollar Baby is classical in the clean, clear, strong lines of its story and characters, and had an enormous emotional impact." [http://rogerebert.suntimes.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20050129/ESSAYS/501290301/1008]