Maggie tells her coach that she has never felt good doing anything else other than boxing, and if she is too old for this, she has got nothing. But, Maggie makes herself very clear from the beginning that she wants a trainer, not charity. His priest says, “The only person who comes to church that much is the kind who can’t forgive himself for something”.įinally moved by Maggie’s determination, Frankie finally gives in. Frankie visits church so often out of guilt that even his priest is fed up of him. Meanwhile, Frankie has a strained relationship with his daughter, who sends back his letters unopened. Maggie, out of desperation, steals leftover food from the restaurant to eat, to help her survive. Despite the stereotype of an over-aged woman in boxing, she doesn’t give up. Maggie represented determination and self-respect.

She kept going and showed up at the gym every day. Frankie says, “You wouldn’t start training to be a ballerina at 31, would you”? Frankie refused to teach women and girls how to box and also discriminated on the basis of age. Following her dream, to become the best boxer in the world, she showed up at Hit Pit, a downtown gym, to be trained by the best coach Frankie Dunn (Clint Eastwood). Maggie was poor and leading an insignificant life, but she was determined to make her mark in the world of boxing.

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