Clint Eastwood's Million Dollar Baby is a masterful work of film -- one of those movies so perfect it's impossible to imagine it being done any other way, one that resonates and stays with you long after you've left the theatre. I give it my highest recommendation.
That said, if you're like me, you spent a fair amount of the movie trying to figure out where you'd seen some of the actors in it. This happens a lot with Clint Eastwood's films, since he tends to use lots of working actors. Anyway, Danger, the young boxer, is the guy who played Steven on Undeclared. The actor who played the priest was the IRA terrorist being temporarily held in Oz who tried to blow up the prison with Ryan O'Reilly's help.
Unfortunately, there are some self-righteous lackwits who are, apparently, too damn stupid to understand that art thrives on ambiguity and the presentation of an act is not necessarily an endorsement of that act, and so have taken it upon themselves to destroy the film -- literally spoil it -- by spreading plot details best unknown before entering the theatre. If you haven't seen it, don't click this next link; if you have, though, Roger Ebert does an excellent job of detailing just why this is such a despicable and lousy thing to do.
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