content: Kept hearing how this was not a boxing movie so I rented it to see for myself. It is a boxing movie and a good story woven into it. I felt a kinship with the character Swank plays (both from poor, trashy, southern backgrounds and trying to overcome that and reach a dream). It is difficult to review this movie without giving away the ending. So if you do not want to know more stop reading, it will not give much away but a small bit.........................the portrayal given by both Swank and Eastwood in making the choices that are made in the last few minutes of the movie are top notch and worthy of all praise to them as actors. I pray never to be on either end....Watch this movie!!!!