You must see the movie Million Dollar Baby. It is best you see it before you talk to anyone who has, or before you have read any reviews that talk about the plot. All you need to know is it is about a woman from a deprived background who wants to be a boxer. It is one of the best movies I have seen in a long time. I can’t remember the last time I was at a movie in which the audience applauded.
The movie is based off the short stories found in the late FX Tool (pen name) book Rope Burns: Stories from the Corner. The short story Million Dollar Baby is the basis of the movie, with many of the other short stories becoming back ground stories in the movie. Much of FX Tool’s wonderful prose is used as narration provided by Scrap (Morgan Freeman).
An interview from a few years ago with FX Tool was replayed this week on NPR’s Fresh Air.

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