A heavyweight champion of the 77th Academy Awards, picking up the awards for the best picture, best director and best lead actress, Clint Eastwood directed “Million Dollar Baby” is a sports drama about a veteran boxing coach and a promising female boxer. Frankie Dunn (Clint Eastwood) is an underappreciated boxing coach with his own agenda. When a young woman called Maggie Fitzgerald comes to his gym and asks him to train her, Frankie refuses at first, but after seeing his star boxer abandon him for a different manager, he reluctantly agrees. Maggie turns out to be an extremely gifted boxer, winning one match after the next. When Maggie is offered a chance to fight for the championship belt, Frankie is reluctant to arrange it. Eventually he gives in and sets up a match between Maggie and the ruling champion, a German former prostitute with a reputation for fighting dirty. Maggie controls the fight, but the German fighter lands a sucker punch after the bell that sends her flying into a corner chair, breaks her neck and leaves her quadriplegic. Maggie’s state gradually worsens and she begs Frankie to allow her to die with some dignity and while she can still remember her glory moments. Frankie consults with a priest who warns him against euthanasia. Meanwhile, Maggie makes desperate attempts to commit suicide, and ultimately, Frankie honors her final wish by giving her a lethal adrenaline injection.
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