Million Dollar Baby (2004)

frankie dunn has been the coach and manager of many boxers for years and spent a lifetime in the ring. a lonely man with a tough character, frankie has a single friend, scrap, also a former boxer, with whom he runs a boxing gym in los angeles. frankie's life takes a turn when maggie arrives in the gym, a girl determined to fight in the ring, who at first tries to discourage but then, given the girl's obstinacy, decides to help and takes her protection.