Cinderella Man

Rating:	★★★★
Category:	Movies
Genre:	Sports

This is the true story of a former champion boxer, laid low by the depression, who makes a comeback to save his family.

Russell Crowe is the boxer (drawing from his own fighting experiences?) and Renee Zellweger as his wife. They both play their parts well, as do tghe rest of the cast. The period detail looked fine to me.

I'm not a fan of boxing and this film did not do much to change my opinion, but the fight scenes are spectactular. I find it hard to imagine why anyone would deliberately want to risk getting hit that hard.

Even without knowing the story, I still worked out what would happen.

It's a very well made film and should stand a chance of some awards. I enjoyed it.

I saw the film at a special screening in Miami. The audience were quite free in expressing their emotion through the film and even clapped at the end. I think a UK audience may have been a little more reserved.