NSCIA Blasts Eastwood for Million Dollar Baby
BETHESDA, MD, Jan. 19, 2005 -- The National Spinal Cord Injury Association calls Clint Eastwood's latest Oscar contender, Million Dollar Baby, "a brilliantly executed attack on life after spinal cord injury." In the film, "Frankie (Eastwood), an aging manager, agrees to train Maggie (Swank), a talented boxer. Maggie takes a fall and sustains SCI. Frankie then kills Maggie in a nursing home at her request."