Watch options. Storyline Edit. During the Great Depression, common-man hero James J. Braddock Russell Crowe , aka the Cinderella Man, was to become one of the most surprising sports legends in history. By the early s, the impoverished ex-prizefighter was seemingly as broken-down, beaten-up, and out-of-luck as much of the rest of the American populace who had hit rock bottom. His career appeared to be finished, he was unable to pay the bills, his family--the only thing that mattered to him--was in danger, and he was even forced to go on Public Relief.
But deep inside, James J. Braddock never relinquished his determination. Driven by love, honor, and an incredible dose of grit, he willed an impossible dream to come true. In a last-chance bid to help his family, Braddock returned to the ring.
No one thought he had a shot. However Braddock, fueled by something beyond mere competition, kept winning. Suddenly, the ordinary working man became the mythic athlete.
Carrying the hopes and dreams of the disenfranchised on his shoulders, Braddock rocketed through the ranks until this underdog chose to do the unthinkable: take on the heavyweight champ of the world, the unstoppable Max Baer Craig Bierko , renowned for having killed two men in the ring. One man's extraordinary fight to save the family he loved. Biography Drama History Romance Sport. Rated PG for intense boxing violence and some language.
Did you know Edit. She is the daughter of his daughter Rosemarie, who was portrayed by Ariel Waller in this movie. Few contributed more to the intellectual life of Melbourne than Sir Redmond Barry. Please update your payment details to keep enjoying your Irish Times subscription. Jessica Traynor. James Braddock training in Florida, Braddock went on to win the title after 15 rounds.
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Only letters, numbers, periods and hyphens are allowed in screen names. Excellent as always, Crowe plays Braddock with simple dignity, as a man without guile, in contrast to another man of essential decency, his manager, Joe Gould, played by the admirable Paul Giamatti as both sly and kind, inspirational and manipulative. After Pearl Harbor, the pair volunteered together for army service.
A true believer in the American Dream, Braddock thought all would come well in the end for the nation, especially after the election of Roosevelt. Mike is a Wall Street broker wiped out and reduced to working on the docks alongside the boxer. He simultaneously takes to drink in despair and turns to radical politics in hope of revolutionary change.
He ends up dead, killed by police in a demonstration, but does inspire Braddock to make a defiant speech against capitalism to the exploitative figures behind the fight game.
The fights are excellently managed by Howard and his director of photography, Salvatore Totino, who lights them in the style of the great, earlyth-century boxing painter George Bellows, and uses different lenses to make the ring look alternately like a vast arena and a claustrophobic box from which there is no escape. These fights are as tough, varied and physically exhausting to the spectator as any I've seen.
He is so destructive that the fight's promoter, James Johnston, forces both Braddock and Gould to watch a film of Baer in action, just so he can maintain later that he warned them what Braddock was up against. Braddock demonstrates no fear. The arrogant Baer attempts to intimidate him, even taunting Mae in public that her man might not survive. When he says this, she becomes so angry that she throws a drink at him. She is unable to attend the fight at the Madison Square Garden Bowl or even to listen to it on the radio.
On June 13, , in one of the greatest upsets in boxing history, Braddock defeats the seemingly invincible Baer to become the heavyweight champion of the world. An epilogue reveals that Braddock would later lose his title to Joe Louis and later worked on the building of the Verrazano Bridge, owning and operating heavy machinery on the docks where he worked during the Depression, and that he and Mae used his boxing income to buy a house, where they spent the rest of their lives.
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