<Tr> <Th> Box office </Th> <Td> $216.8 million </Td> </Tr> <P> Million Dollar Baby is a 2004 American sports drama film directed, co-produced, and scored by Clint Eastwood, and starring Eastwood, Hilary Swank, and Morgan Freeman . This film is about an underappreciated boxing trainer, the mistakes that haunt him from his past, and his quest for atonement by helping an underdog amateur boxer achieve her dream of becoming a professional . </P> <P> Million Dollar Baby opened to wide acclaim from critics, and won four Academy Awards, including Best Picture . Its screenplay was written by Paul Haggis, based on short stories by F.X. Toole, the pen name of fight manager and cutman Jerry Boyd . Originally published under the title Rope Burns, the stories have since been republished under the film's title . </P> <P> Margaret "Maggie" Fitzgerald (Hillary Swank), a waitress from a Missouri town in the Ozarks, shows up in the Hit Pit, a run - down Los Angeles gym owned and operated by Frankie Dunn (Clint Eastwood), an old, cantankerous boxing trainer . Maggie asks Frankie to train her, but he initially refuses . Maggie works out tirelessly each day in his gym, even after Frankie tells her she's "too old" to begin a boxing career at her age . Eddie "Scrap - Iron" Dupris (Morgan Freeman), Frankie's friend and employee--and the film's narrator--encourages and helps her . </P>

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