Cinderella Man - (Ron Howard;2005;USA)
The story of boxer Jim Braddock's fall during the Great Depression and his rise to fight the champion Max Baer.
A film that is watchable for it's actors and music rather then the direction, which is for Howard, once again corny and melodramatic. It fails to be as thought-provoking as Million Dollar Baby or character studyeasque as Raging Bull though some of it's boxing scenes have some good elements. Instead it turns out to be a routine production. I give it a decent rating because it's cast carries it well, making you forget that it's too long. Giamatti's charisma is wonderful in particular. Otherwise this is far from the masterpiece people have been inflating this to be.