Frankie Dunn has trained and managed some incredible fighters during a lifetime spent in the ring. The most important lesson he teaches his boxers is the one that rules life: above all, always protect yourself. In the wake of a painful estrangement from his daughter, Frankie has been unwilling to let himself get close to anyone for a very long time. His only friend, Scrap, an ex-boxer who looks after Frankie's gym, knows that beneath his gruff exterior is a man who has been seeking, for the past 25 years, the forgiveness that somehow continues to elude him. Then Maggie Fitzgerald walks into his gym...
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This is the 25th film Clint Eastwood has directed, the 57th film in which he has acted, and the 21st he has produced.
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Goofs
Errors in geography:
When Maggie is taking her mother to the new home she just bought her, there are palm trees around the other houses in the neighborhood. This scene is supposed to be in a small town in Missouri, where palm trees do not grow.
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Quotes
[first lines]
Eddie Scrap-Iron Dupris:
[Narrating]
Only ever met one man I wouldn't wanna fight. When I met him he was already the best cut man in the business. Started training and managing in the sixties, but never lost his gift. See more »
Crazy Credits
The Warner Brothers logo is the classic shield version, shown in a color
palette (mainly black and white, with a dark green tint) matching the
"feel" of the movie, and is static instead of the modern 3D animated
sequence.
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