Once Jim Braddock won enough prize money, he returned to the welfare office and returned the money he had received. This anecdote, the antithesis of today's welfare culture, sank the film.
I enjoyed the fights in Cinderella Man but hated Renee Zellweger's scenes in the film. It was a great story and Craig Bierko as Max Baer was suberb...but then that long-suffering wife crap killed it for me.