Now, he and his wife, Mae, are struggling to put food on the table for their three young children. Like many other people, Braddock lost all his money in the Great Depression. His friend and manager, Joe Gould, tries to get him other fights, but the Boxing Commission doesn’t like Jim’s last two lackluster performances, so it pulls his license. Jim’s boxing career is in decline, a decline that has been increased by injuries to one of his hands.
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The movie opens near the eve of that fight in 1929.
This time, they get help from the considerable talents of Renee Zellweger and Paul Giamatti.īased on a true story, CINDERELLA MAN is about the family and boxing career of James Braddock, an Irishman from New Jersey who gained notoriety as a light heavyweight in the late 1920s, until he lost a fight in 1929. As they did with A BEAUTIFUL MIND, director Ron Howard and actor Russell Crowe have delivered one of the most positive, most uplifting movies of the year. It also may be one of the best sports movies ever made, as well as one of the best Christian sports movies ever made. More Detail:ĬINDERELLA MAN may be one of the best boxing movies ever made.
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(CCC, BBB, Pa, LLL, VV, N, AA, D, M) Very strong Christian worldview, including overt positive references to prayers, especially at the climax of the movie, with a very strong moral portrayal of a family, a father, and a husband and wife who stick together through thick and thin, despite great adversity, as well as pagan elements where hero’s friend curses a lot and one character is shown to be a playboy 38 obscenities (no “f” words), 27 strong profanities and three light profanities many strong, intense boxing fight scenes including the usual fisticuffs, such as blows to the head, people knocked unconscious and some blood, plus scuffle with drunken man, night scenes where man walks through the about aftermath of a riot with viewers seeing people being treated and one corpse taken away, and film shown of man getting knocked out and dying in boxing ring viewed in a long shot no sex scenes but kissing between husband and wife and one fighter appears to be a playboy who is surrounded by girls and has two girls in his apartment upper male nudity in a sports setting and female cleavage shown briefly alcohol use and minor character shows up drunk smoking and, minor character has a troubled marriage and Catholic hero struggling to provide for his family in the midst of the Great Depression tells wife that “I’m all prayed out” when she wants to pray together about their situation, but prayer is also shown as a positive thing that supports people and can get results. In addition to much boxing violence, there is plenty of foul language, mostly coming from the hero’s gregarious boxing manager, so media-wise caution is advised. The inspiring story they tell has a very strong Christian worldview that extols family, faith, prayer, determination, and integrity. Director Ron Howard and actor Russell Crowe do some of their best work, as do Renee Zellweger and Paul Giamatti. After that, Jim defeats two other contenders, and wins the right to fight Heavyweight Champion Max Baer.ĬINDERELLA MAN is one of the year’s most positive, most uplifting movies. To everyone’s surprise, Jim knocks him out in three rounds. Then, in the spring of 1934, his friend and former manager, Joe Gould, brings Jim a chance to fight a heavyweight contender (whose scheduled opponent can’t fight). Things look extremely bleak for Jim, his loving wife Mae and their three young children. After brief success in the late 1920s, some hand injuries stop Braddock’s career, and the Great Depression leaves his family destitute. CINDERELLA MAN, based on a true story, is about the family and boxing career of James Braddock, who made one of the greatest comebacks ever in 19.
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