[Rummyfan]

Baby is a boxing picture, only the fighter is a girl. With "Maggie McNamara," Hilary Swank paints the most intense portrait of a fighter since Robert DeNiro's Jake LaMotta in Raging Bull (1980).

A minor point but the character's name is Maggie Fitzgerald.

You will cry all right (I sure did) but I had problems with the ending. Too many irrationalities..... first and foremost why would such a character as Maggie, so full of life and fight, ask her manager and surrogate father to 'put her down'?

[Hildy]

Here's the problem with your argument...you're putting your view of life and its meaning onto somebody else. All Maggie had was her strength and her identity as a boxer. Maybe that was the thing that was covering up all her other emotional problems. We don't know, nor she we have to. If somebody, of sane mind, declares they do not want to go on living without the use of their limbs, who are we to say they are wrong? Who are we to force them to live in despair? Who are we? And, may I say, how dare we?

[mrustow]

Baby is a boxing picture, only the fighter is a girl. With "Maggie McNamara," Hilary Swank paints the most intense portrait of a fighter since Robert DeNiro's Jake LaMotta in Raging Bull (1980).

A minor point but the character's name is Maggie Fitzgerald.

Good point.

You will cry all right (I sure did) but I had problems with the ending. Too many irrationalities..... first and foremost why would such a character as Maggie, so full of life and fight, ask her manager and surrogate father to 'put her down'?

I think Hildy, at #119, came up with the best explanation for that.