So does director Eastwood, and he makes the wrong ones, going for the manipulative and the maudlin, everyone lining up as either saintly or unredeemably awful. And when tragedy strikes, Frankie and Maggie have to make some tough choices. Too bad Million Dollar Baby takes those great performances and throws some cliched sports metaphors their way. Toole's superb book and beautifully read by Freeman, is so vivid we can smell sweat and adrenaline. For the first half of the film, the narration, based on F.X.

Eastwood is also marvelous with Swank in a performance that's fuller, fonder, and funnier than we've seen from him since the Any Which Way But Loose days. Frankie and Eddie have the bickering banter of a longtime married couple, and pros Eastwood and Freeman riff off each other like jazz players who've been jamming for a lifetime. The details of the boxing world and Frankie's relationships with Maggie and with his long-time friend Eddie (Morgan Freeman, who also narrates) are warm and richly observed.

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