Dead Cant Rant

1928. At first it was hard to imagine. This was your grandparents’ world, or maybe your great-grandparents’. But slowly and amazingly it became your world too. Maybe you just wished it was. Two handsome young people incredibly, achingly in love and married — to each other, no less, and raising a family together! But this movie is about boxing, right? Sure, but it’s so much more. It’s a movie about a man’s fight to protect and save his family when the whole country was struggling for its life. It’s the story of a woman who fights for her man and discovers the true meaning of loving a man is to let him be who and what he really is — a man.

Russell Crowe and Renée Zellweger star as Jim and Mae Braddock. Side by side, they take on the burdens of family, work, and the Great Depression with courage and fortitude. When Jim returns to the ring in bout after bout, we feel Mae’s pride and fear also. When Jim fights and perseveres to win his way back to the top of his profession and face the opponent of a lifetime we feel their joy. This story is all our stories: the pain, the love, the fear we all experience every day.

This isn’t a mere “feel good” movie — it’s a “feel alive” movie. It reminds us all that every man is a champion to his family and friends.

Remember the last time you watched a great movie from the Golden Age of Hollywood? As the credits rolled you sighed and said longingly, “They don’t make them like that anymore.” Well, you were right.

Until now.