Clint Eastwood returns to the big screen in a multifaceted way. Not only does he star in his movie, Million Dollar Baby, but he also directed the film and wrote the score. Eastwood sure seems to be getting better with age. Last year his film Mystic River was nominated in several categories for the Academy Awards...and this film will more then likely be the same way.

Hilary Swank plays a thirty something stubborn Maggie Fitzgerald that is determined to be a great boxer. She follows Frankie (Eastwood) around trying to get him to train her and he is finally convinced. He is a hardnosed ex-boxer turned trainer that really seems to lack heart. He helps train her even though he constantly reminds her that he does not train girls. Their relationship grows and so do her skills. Morgan Freeman plays ex-boxer Eddie Dupris who runs Frankie's gym for him and is the closest thing that he has to a friend.

This film follows the dark style that Eastwood has grown popular for and really down plays the idea of special effects to focus more on relationships between people and the emotional bonds they form. This trio of actors does a great job with the film and Swank will definetly get nominated for another Oscar for this role...and she might even win her second one considering she already won the Golden Globe.

This movie is an emotional roller coaster that starts off a little slow, but please stay in your seats and watch it till the end...you will then understand why I said that you need to.