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IF THIS ONE STAYED WITH YOU
Keep the feeling.
SIMILAR PICKS / A PERSONAL CONNECTION
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Why this pick
Like Million Dollar Baby, it finds hard-won dignity in a physically punishing sport, with a battered outsider confronting regret, fragile connection, and the cost of pursuing one last chance.
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Why this pick
A grounded boxing drama driven less by victory than by family pressure, loyalty, and a fighter’s difficult attempt to claim an identity beyond the people who control him.
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Why this pick
It shares the intimate, bruising emotional force of Million Dollar Baby: disciplined combat scenes become a vehicle for estrangement, grief, and complicated familial devotion.
04
Why this pick
A key spiritual companion: an unsentimental boxing story about aging, aspiration, and defeat, observed with the same tenderness for people on society’s margins.
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Why this pick
Though not a sports film, it matches Million Dollar Baby’s restrained sentiment, plainspoken American setting, and deeply moving portrait of an elderly person seeking reconciliation.
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01 / THE STORY
Margaret "Maggie" Fitzgerald, a waitress from a Missouri town in the Ozarks, shows up in the Hit Pit, a run-down Los Angeles gym owned and operated by Frankie Dunn, an old, cantankerous boxing trainer. Maggie asks Frankie to train her, but he initially refuses. Maggie works out tirelessly each day in his gym, even after Frankie tells her she's "too old" to begin a boxing career at her age. Eddie "Scrap-Iron" Dupris, Frankie's friend and employee—and the film's narrator—encourages and helps her.
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02 / FACES IN THE FRAME
Maggie Fitzgerald
Frankie Dunn
Eddie Scrap-Iron Dupris
Big Willie Little
Danger Barch
Earline Fitzgerald
Father Horvak
Mardell Fitzgerald
