"Million Dollar Baby" film

FIGHTING FOR A DREAM

Director:Clint Eastwood

Stars:Hilary Swank, Clint Eastwood and Morgan Freeman 

Year: 2004
Runtime: 132 minutes 
Cast:
Clint Eastwood- Frankie
Hilary Swank- Maggie
Morgan Freeman- Scrap
Original Music: Clint Eastwood,Kyle Eastwood (songs "Boxing Baby" and "Blue Diner".

Plot

Frankie, a respectful professional boxing trainer and cut man, runs The Hit Pit, an old-school boxing gym in downtown Los Angeles. He is a religious man who goes to mass every day.Unable to forgive himself for becoming estranged from his daughter long ago, for reasons which are never divulged to the audience, he sends her a letter every week, and the next week the letter always comes back, unopened and marked "Return to Sender". His janitor (a doorkeeper of a buiding) and righthand man, Scrap, is a former boxer who lost an eye in a fight, for which Frankie still blames himsel. Scrap narrates the movie

What interested Eastwood about MILLION DOLLAR BABY was the fact that it was not really about boxing but " a love story about a person who is distressed (cause someone anxiety, sorrow, or pain) about his non-existent relationship with his daughter, and who then finds a sort of surrogate ( a substitute) daughter in this young girl who is dying to make her mark on the world as a boxer". Frankie is searching for redemption.
There is a turning point in the story, when it becomes a father/daughter love story.

Winners

are simply

willing to do

what losers

won´t

I want you to watch this film ,with English subtitles, in class. Everything has been prepared for you.The exercises are from " Speak Up" magazine.