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232 MILLION DOLLAR BABYWarner Bros., 2004PRINCIPAL CAST Clint Eastwood, Hilary Swank, Morgan FreemanDIRECTORClint EastwoodPRODUCERSClint Eastwood, Paul Haggis, Tom Rosenberg, Albert S. RuddySCREENWRITER Paul HaggisA trio of lonely and isolated people meet on uncommon ground when young workingclass waitress Swank decides to become a boxer. “It’s the magic of risking everythingfor a dream that nobody sees but you.” Eastwood’s taut and unusual love storyreveals how far friends will go for the people they love.233 THE MIRACLE OF MORGAN’S CREEKParamount, 1944PRINCIPAL CAST Eddie Bracken, Betty HuttonDIRECTORPreston SturgesPRODUCERB.G. DeSylvaSCREENWRITER Preston SturgesThe miraculous birth of sextuplets climaxes this satire about a woman who marriesduring a night of revelry, but the next morning cannot remember her husband’s name.234 MIRACLE ON 34TH STREETTwentieth Century-Fox, 1947PRINCIPAL CAST Maureen O’Hara, Edmund Gwenn, John Payne, Natalie WoodDIRECTORGeorge SeatonPRODUCERWilliam PerlbergSCREENWRITERS George Seaton, Valentine DaviesGwenn is Kris Kringle in this yuletide classic of a Macy’s Santa Claus who insists heis the real McCoy. A young Natalie Wood is the skeptical little girl who learns tobelieve in her dreams.235 MODERN TIMESUnited Artists, 1936PRINCIPAL CASTDIRECTORPRODUCERSCREENWRITERCharles Chaplin, Paulette GoddardCharles ChaplinCharles ChaplinCharles ChaplinChaplin speaks! And ends the silent era with this film about a little man workingon an assembly line, who is literally caught in the hub of an industrialized society,and after several trips to the hospital and jail, ultimately finds happiness with akindred soul.American Film Institute 77