![]() However, managers stop pitting their fighters against her as a result, and Frankie, out of necessity, moves Maggie up to the next weight class. Maggie becomes an extraordinarily successful fighter, always knocking out her opponent in the first round. After months of training, Maggie is given a manager, but during her first fight, Frankie decides to take over as her manager, and she then knocks out her opponent. Frankie then reluctantly agrees to train Maggie but states that he will not manage her. ![]() Big Willie drops Frankie as his manager and signs with the more aggressive Mickey Mack (Bruce MacVittie). ![]() Scrap gives Maggie some tips and lets her borrow a speed bag. Maggie, a waitress from the Ozarks region of Missouri, starts working out at the gym. Frankie runs the Hit Pit boxing gym, and Scrap is his best friend and the maintenance man for the gym. Frankie is also reluctant to let Big Willie fight in a title match. Maggie Fitzgerald (Swank) watches the match and later asks Frankie to train her, but he refuses. The movie is narrated by Eddie “Scrap-Iron” Dupris (played by Morgan Freeman) and opens on a boxing match in Los Angeles in which “cut man” and trainer Frankie Dunn (Eastwood) is in the corner of “Big” Willie Little (Mike Colter). It garnered rapturous reviews and four Academy Awards, including that for best picture. Million Dollar Baby, American dramatic film, released in 2004, that was directed by Clint Eastwood and starred Eastwood and Hilary Swank.
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