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Boxing movies have become impossible to make in a way that delivers fresh content. The Fighter certainly fails in this way as well. It is based on a true story, but the plot is painfully familiar. Even so, David Russell delivers a respectable drama within the confines of this static genre. ‘Irish’ Micky Ward, played by [...]  In “The Fighter,” Mark Wahlberg portrays real life scrapper “Irish” Micky Ward who was a fighter in the early 1990s in the welterweight division. Micky is the half brother of Dicky Eklund, played by Christian Bale, who had some real success boxing. In fact, Eklund is considered the “Pride of Lowell Massachusetts” because he once knocked [...] |
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