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Watch: Cinderella Man 2005 123movies, Full Movie Online – 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 1930s, 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..
Plot: The true story of boxer Jim Braddock who, in the 1920s following his retirement, makes a surprise comeback in order to get him and his family out of a socially poor state.
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Ratings:

	8.0/10 Votes: 188,504
	80% | RottenTomatoes
	69/100 | MetaCritic
	N/A Votes: 1852 Popularity: 14.171 | TMDB

Reviews:

The stereotypical sports movie about a character which goes from glory to hell and back to the glory again.

The story is OK, but nothing new. Crowe performs well, but it is not one of his best movies. Giamatti is great, as always but Zellwegger is too cheesy in her role.

Just an entertaining movie without any more intentions.

This is a fine boxing movie, one that relies more on the fighter’s personal story than endless scenes of boxing brutality. James Braddock’s final rise to the championship was an inspirational example during the lull in between the headline-grabbing reigns of Jack Dempsey and Joe Louis, when the heavyweight title changed hands several times.

My only complaint with Ron Howard’s film was its portrayal of Max Baer, the champion Braddock defeated to win the title. For dramatic purposes, they changed his personality and made him into a bullying, vicious person, to the point of making a crude comment about Braddock’s wife. They needed a bad guy so they made one.

I became interested in Max Baer when I was a teen and read a lot about him over the decades. He was fierce when he meant business in the ring, but mostly he was happy go liucky and didn’t love the fight game. As a side note, Max Baer’s son was also upset at seeing this man he didn’t recognize as his father (this was Max Baer Jr., Jethro Bodean from the Beverly Hillbillies). But what can you do — making changes is standard procedure for movies based on real events. They are often still worth watching. Just don’t use them for research for a school project, right?

Excellent fiction treatment of historical boxer “Humbling Bull”
Just saw a preview of this film (opens June 3) and as shamelessly emotional as it is, I liked it very much. It provides a more visceral view of the Great Depression era than did another fine film, Seabiscuit. Call it Seabiscuit with even more heart!

Ron Howard teams with Russell Crowe (James J. Braddock) again and shows they can repeat with a winner. Like him as a person or not, Crowe puts forth another finely tuned, very convincing performance. Unlike in real life, he can be quite humble and sympathetic while beating the heck out of people. Really, his character is affecting, especially in his scenes with Braddock’s children, and may be fairly reflective of the actual person of Braddock. (The fight game at that time, or any time, was not for saints but, whatever.) Renee Zellweger, who is not my favorite except for a brilliant portrayal in Cold Mountain, plays the wife effectively and mirrors the emotions for the females in the audience. (If my observations at the showing are typical, women fans will spend time alternately heading their eyes and virtually cheering out loud for Braddock/Crowe.)

There are a number of good supporting actors but Paul Giamatti strikes again! He plays the manager who supports Braddock through thick and thin and his character recalls the era better than anyone in the film. I don’t know what kind of research he did for this role but his Joe Gould is the archetypal boxing manager of the time or, at least, our cinema image of one. Here’s hoping he pulled some big bucks for a role for once.

(You will certainly recognize Bruce McGill, as the seemingly hard-hearted fight promoter who could care less about Braddock but really doesn’t want to see him get killed in the ring, from many movie and TV appearances where he is always reliable and who may be remembered from an early exposure as “D-Day” in Animal House.)

I guess every Hollywood movie has to have a villain…
… and this film based on the life of boxer Jim Braddock made Max Baer into one. Baer was actually a genuinely nice guy. He accidentally killed one man in the ring. He was ripped up emotionally by that and gave lots of money to his family. He was not a constantly partying womanizing guy who didn’t want to fight Jim Braddock because he thought he was beneath him. He actually chose him because he thought he could beat him. However, Baer did embrace the identity of clown and did not like to train. And he starred in one of the oddest films ever made over at MGM – “The Prizefighter and the Lady” (1933). But I digress.

What I say in the last paragraph is actually the reason I give the film 8 stars instead of 9 or 10, because the reputation and memory of a real person was so unjustly sullied. Now for what is right with the movie. It realistically portrays the violence of poverty, especially during the Great Depression when there was no real safety net for the poor. Kids went hungry, families were split up because parents couldn’t afford to feed them, fighting for the right to unionize could get you killed. Great work went into the art design and cinematography of this film.

Russell Crowe and Renee Zellweger give very poignant and authentic portrayals of Jim and Mae Braddock, trying to keep their familiy together during the time when Jim cannot fight and can’t get reliable work on the docks either. It’s a great comeback story, and I think it might have done better at the box office and been better remembered if it had been released at Christmas of 2005 rather than during the summer, as it was. It is the real “Rocky” story, and I highly recommend it.

Other Information:

Original Language en
Runtime 2 hr 24 min (144 min)
Budget 88000000
Revenue 108539911
Status Released
Rated PG-13
Genre Biography, Drama, Romance
Director Ron Howard
Writer Cliff Hollingsworth, Akiva Goldsman
Actors Russell Crowe, Renée Zellweger, Craig Bierko
Country United States
Awards Nominated for 3 Oscars. 16 wins & 45 nominations total
Production Company N/A
Website N/A

Technical Information:

Sound Mix DTS, Dolby Digital, SDDS
Aspect Ratio 2.39 : 1
Camera Arricam LT, Cooke S4 and Angenieux Optimo Lenses, Arricam ST, Cooke S4 and Angenieux Optimo Lenses, Arriflex 35-IIC, Cooke S4 Lenses, Arriflex 435, Cooke S4 and Century Lenses, Bell & Howell Eyemo, Nikon Nikkor Lenses, Canon Scoopic
Laboratory DeLuxe, Toronto, Canada (processing), EFILM Digital Laboratories, Hollywood (CA), USA (digital intermediate), Technicolor, Hollywood (CA), USA
Film Length N/A
Negative Format 16 mm (Kodak Ektachrome 160D 7239), 35 mm (Eastman Double-X 5222, Kodak Vision2 Expression 500T 5229, EXR 100T 5248, EXR 200T 5293)
Cinematographic Process Digital Intermediate (2K) (master format), Spherical (16 mm segments) (source format), Super 35 (source format)
Printed Film Format 35 mm (anamorphic) (partial blow-up) (Kodak Vision 2383)