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Cinderella Man

January 01, 1970

For other uses, see Cinderella Man (disambiguation).

Cinderella Man is a 2005 American biographical sports drama film directed by Ron Howard. The film stars Russell Crowe, Renée Zellweger and Paul Giamatti. It tells the true story of heavyweight boxing champion James J. Braddock, who was dubbed "The Cinderella Man" by journalist Damon Runyon. This is the second collaboration for Howard and Crowe, the first being A Beautiful Mind (2001).

Cinderella Man
Theatrical release poster
Directed byRon Howard
Screenplay by
Story byCliff Hollingsworth
Produced by
Starring
CinematographySalvatore Totino
Edited by
Music byThomas Newman
Production
companies
Distributed by
Release date
  • June 3, 2005 (2005-06-03)
Running time
144 minutes[2]
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish
Budget$88 million[3]
Box office$108.5 million[3]

Cinderella Man was released in the United States by Universal Pictures on June 3, 2005. The film received generally positive reviews but underperformed at the box office, grossing $108 million against a budget of $88 million. It received three Academy Award nominations, including Best Supporting Actor for Giamatti.

Plot edit

James J. Braddock is an Irish-American boxer from New Jersey, formerly a light heavyweight contender, who is forced to give up boxing after breaking his hand in the ring. This is both a relief and a burden to his wife, Mae. She cannot bring herself to watch the violence of his chosen profession, yet she knows they will not have enough income without his boxing.

As the United States enters the Great Depression, Braddock does manual labor as a longshoreman to support his family, even with his injured hand. Unfortunately, he cannot get work every day. Thanks to a last-minute cancellation by another boxer, Braddock's longtime manager and friend, Joe Gould, offers him a chance to fill in for just one night and earn cash. The fight is against the number-two contender in the world, Corn Griffin.

Braddock stuns the boxing experts and fans with a third-round knockout of his formidable opponent. He believes that while his right hand was broken, he became more proficient with his left hand, improving his in-ring ability. Despite Mae's objections, Braddock takes up Gould's offer to return to the ring. Mae resents this attempt by Gould to profit from her husband's dangerous livelihood, until she discovers that Gould and his wife also have been devastated by hard times.

With a shot at the heavyweight championship held by Max Baer a possibility, Braddock continues to win. Out of a sense of pride, he uses a portion of his prize money to pay back money to the government given to him while unemployed. When his rags to riches story gets out, the sportswriter Damon Runyon dubs him "The Cinderella Man", and before long Braddock comes to represent the hopes and aspirations of the American public struggling with the Depression.

After wins against John Henry Lewis and Art Lasky, a title fight against Baer comes his way. Braddock is a 10-to-1 underdog. Baer is so destructive that the fight's promoter, James Johnston, forces both Braddock and Gould to watch a film of Baer in action, just so he can maintain later that he warned them what Braddock was up against, as Baer had reportedly killed 2 men in the ring.

Braddock demonstrates no fear. The arrogant Baer attempts to intimidate him, even taunting Mae in public that her man might not survive. When he says this, she becomes so angry that she throws a drink at him. She is unable to attend the fight at the Madison Square Garden Bowl or even to listen to it on the radio.

On June 13, 1935, in one of the greatest upsets in boxing history, Braddock defeats the seemingly invincible Baer to become the heavyweight champion of the world.

An epilogue reveals that Braddock would lose his title to Joe Louis (who would later call Braddock "the most courageous man I ever fought") and later worked on the building of the Verrazzano Bridge, owning and operating heavy machinery on the docks where he worked during the Depression, and that he and Mae used his boxing income to buy a house, where they spent the rest of their lives.

Cast edit

Production edit

During filming in Toronto, several areas were redressed to resemble 1930s New York. The Richmond Street side of The Bay's Queen Street store was redressed as Madison Square Garden, complete with fake store fronts and period stop lights. A stretch of Queen Street East between Broadview and Carlaw was also made up to appear to be from the 1930s and dozens of period cars were parked along the road. Maple Leaf Gardens was used for all the fight scenes, and many scenes were filmed in the Distillery District. Filming also took place in Hamilton, Ontario at the harbour for the dock workers' scene.[4] The main apartment was shot north of St. Clair Avenue on Lauder Avenue on the west side. An awning was put up for a dress shop, later turned into a real coffee shop.

The Toronto Transit Commission's historic Peter Witt streetcar and two more cars from the nearby Halton County Radial Railway were used for the filming, travelling on Toronto's existing streetcar tracks.

Release edit

In a campaign to boost ticket sales after the film's low opening, AMC Theatres advertised on June 24, 2005, that in 30 markets (about 150 theaters nationwide), it would offer a refund to any ticket-buyer dissatisfied with the film.[5] The advertisement, published in The New York Times and other papers and on internet film sites, read, "AMC believes Cinderella Man is one of the finest motion pictures of the year! We believe so strongly that you'll enjoy Cinderella Man we're offering a Money Back Guarantee." The promotion moderately increased box office revenue for a short period, while at least 50 patrons demanded refunds. Following suit, Cinemark Theatres also offered a money-back guarantee in 25 markets that did not compete with AMC Theatres. AMC had last employed such a strategy (in limited markets) for the 1988 release of Mystic Pizza,[6] while 20th Century Fox had unsuccessfully tried a similar ploy for its 1994 remake of Miracle on 34th Street.

Reception edit

Critical response edit

Rotten Tomatoes reported an approval rating of 80% based on 215 reviews, with an average rating of 7.4/10. The website's critics consensus reads: "With grittiness and an evocative sense of time and place, Cinderella Man is a powerful underdog story. And Ron Howard and Russell Crowe prove to be a solid combination."[7] Metacritic assigned the film a weighted average score of 69 out of 100, based on 40 critics, indicating "generally favorable reviews".[8] Audiences polled by CinemaScore gave the film a rare average grade of "A+".[9]

Roger Ebert of The Chicago Sun-Times gave the film three-and-a-half out of four stars. He wrote that while Cinderella Man was effecting as a boxing movie, its true genius was in Giamatti's "home run" portrayal of Gould and Crowe's against type performance as a "level-headed, sweet-tempered" family man: "You'd have to go back to actors like James Stewart and Spencer Tracy to find such goodness and gentleness".[10]

The film earned $61 million at the US box office and $108 million worldwide.[3]

Accolades edit

Award Date of ceremony Category Recipient(s) Result Ref.
Academy Awards March 5, 2006 Best Supporting Actor Paul Giamatti Nominated [11][12]
Best Film Editing Mike Hill and Daniel P. Hanley Nominated
Best Makeup David LeRoy Anderson and Lance Anderson Nominated
Australian Film Institute Awards November 26, 2005 AFI International Award for Best Actor Russell Crowe Won [13][14]
Boston Society of Film Critics December 11, 2005 Best Supporting Actor Paul Giamatti Won [15]
British Academy Film Awards February 19, 2006 Best Original Screenplay Akiva Goldsman and Cliff Hollingsworth Nominated [16][17]
Chicago Film Critics Association January 9, 2006 Best Supporting Actor Paul Giamatti Nominated [18]
Critics' Choice Awards January 9, 2006 Best Picture Cinderella Man Nominated [19][20][21]
Best Director Ron Howard Nominated
Best Actor Russell Crowe Nominated
Best Supporting Actor Paul Giamatti Won
Dallas–Fort Worth Film Critics Association December 19, 2005 Top 10 Films Cinderella Man 5th place [22][23]
Best Actor Russell Crowe 5th place
Best Supporting Actor Paul Giamatti Runner-up
Empire Awards March 13, 2006 Best Director Ron Howard Nominated [24]
Best Actress Renée Zellweger Nominated
ESPY Awards July 13, 2005 Best Sports Movie Cinderella Man Nominated [25]
Florida Film Critics Circle December 24, 2005 Best Supporting Actor Paul Giamatti Won [26][27]
Golden Globe Awards January 16, 2006 Best Actor in a Motion Picture – Drama Russell Crowe Nominated [28][29]
Best Supporting Actor in a Motion Picture Paul Giamatti Nominated
Golden Trailer Awards May 26, 2005 Summer 2005 Blockbuster Cinderella Man Nominated [30]
Hochi Film Awards December 19, 2005 Best International Picture Cinderella Man Won [31][32]
Hollywood Film Awards October 24, 2005 Hollywood Screenwriter Award Akiva Goldsman and Cliff Hollingsworth Won [33][34][35]
Japan Academy Film Prize March 3, 2006 Outstanding Foreign Language Film Cinderella Man Nominated [36]
London Film Critics' Circle February 8, 2006 British Supporting Actor of the Year Paddy Considine Nominated [37]
Motion Picture Sound Editors Golden Reel Awards March 4, 2006 Best Sound Editing in Feature Film – Dialogue & ADR Anthony J. Ciccolini, Deborah Wallach, Stan Bochner, Dan Korintus, and Kenna Doeringer Nominated [38][39][40]
Nastro d'Argento February 7, 2006 Best Director of a Foreign Film Ron Howard Nominated [41][42]
Online Film Critics Society January 16, 2006 Best Supporting Actor Paul Giamatti Nominated [43][44]
Sant Jordi Awards April 25, 2006 Best Foreign Actor Paul Giamatti Won [45]
Satellite Awards December 17, 2005 Best Motion Picture, Drama Cinderella Man Nominated [46]
Best Overall DVD Cinderella Man Nominated
Screen Actors Guild Awards January 29, 2006 Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Leading Role Russell Crowe Nominated [47][48][49]
Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Supporting Role Paul Giamatti Won
St. Louis Film Critics Association Best Picture Cinderella Man Nominated
Best Actor Russell Crowe Nominated
Best Supporting Actor Paul Giamatti Nominated
Best Supporting Actress Renée Zellweger Nominated
Toronto Film Critics Association December 21, 2005 Best Supporting Actor Paul Giamatti Won [50]
Vancouver Film Critics Circle February 7, 2006 Best Supporting Actor Paul Giamatti Nominated
Washington D.C. Area Film Critics Association December 13, 2005 Best Director Ron Howard Nominated
Best Supporting Actor Paul Giamatti Won [51][52]
Women Film Critics Circle December 28, 2005 Best Title, In Recognition of the Hopefully Inner Female in Every Macho Guy Cinderella Man Won [53]
Writers Guild of America Awards February 4, 2006 Best Original Screenplay Akiva Goldsman and Cliff Hollingsworth Nominated [54]
Young Artist Awards March 25, 2006 Best Family Feature Film – Drama Cinderella Man Nominated [55]

Legacy edit

Main article: Russell Crowe's jockstrap

In April 2018, Crowe auctioned off as part of his "divorce auction" a number of props he owned which were used by him in his various films, including a jockstrap, pair of shorts and robe which were worn by Crowe in Cinderella Man. The items from the film as well as the other items on auction were bought by the HBO television show Last Week Tonight with John Oliver, with the jockstrap having sold for $7,000. The items purchased were then donated to the last operating Blockbuster Video store in Alaska.[56] The jockstrap was reported missing; however, in the final episode of season 5 of Last Week Tonight, John Oliver revealed that it had been taken back and showed a short heist parody filmed with it.

See also edit

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For other uses see Cinderella Man disambiguation Cinderella Man is a 2005 American biographical sports drama film directed by Ron Howard The film stars Russell Crowe Renee Zellweger and Paul Giamatti It tells the true story of heavyweight boxing champion James J Braddock who was dubbed The Cinderella Man by journalist Damon Runyon This is the second collaboration for Howard and Crowe the first being A Beautiful Mind 2001 Cinderella ManTheatrical release posterDirected byRon HowardScreenplay byCliff Hollingsworth Akiva GoldsmanStory byCliff HollingsworthProduced byRon Howard Penny Marshall Brian GrazerStarringRussell Crowe Renee Zellweger Paul Giamatti Craig Bierko Bruce McGill Paddy ConsidineCinematographySalvatore TotinoEdited byDaniel P Hanley Mike HillMusic byThomas NewmanProductioncompaniesTouchstone Pictures 1 Miramax Films Imagine Entertainment Parkway ProductionsDistributed byUniversal Pictures 1 United States Miramax International International through Buena Vista International Release dateJune 3 2005 2005 06 03 Running time144 minutes 2 CountryUnited StatesLanguageEnglishBudget 88 million 3 Box office 108 5 million 3 Cinderella Man was released in the United States by Universal Pictures on June 3 2005 The film received generally positive reviews but underperformed at the box office grossing 108 million against a budget of 88 million It received three Academy Award nominations including Best Supporting Actor for Giamatti Contents 1 Plot 2 Cast 3 Production 4 Release 5 Reception 5 1 Critical response 5 2 Accolades 6 Legacy 7 See also 8 References 9 External linksPlot editJames J Braddock is an Irish American boxer from New Jersey formerly a light heavyweight contender who is forced to give up boxing after breaking his hand in the ring This is both a relief and a burden to his wife Mae She cannot bring herself to watch the violence of his chosen profession yet she knows they will not have enough income without his boxing As the United States enters the Great Depression Braddock does manual labor as a longshoreman to support his family even with his injured hand Unfortunately he cannot get work every day Thanks to a last minute cancellation by another boxer Braddock s longtime manager and friend Joe Gould offers him a chance to fill in for just one night and earn cash The fight is against the number two contender in the world Corn Griffin Braddock stuns the boxing experts and fans with a third round knockout of his formidable opponent He believes that while his right hand was broken he became more proficient with his left hand improving his in ring ability Despite Mae s objections Braddock takes up Gould s offer to return to the ring Mae resents this attempt by Gould to profit from her husband s dangerous livelihood until she discovers that Gould and his wife also have been devastated by hard times With a shot at the heavyweight championship held by Max Baer a possibility Braddock continues to win Out of a sense of pride he uses a portion of his prize money to pay back money to the government given to him while unemployed When his rags to riches story gets out the sportswriter Damon Runyon dubs him The Cinderella Man and before long Braddock comes to represent the hopes and aspirations of the American public struggling with the Depression After wins against John Henry Lewis and Art Lasky a title fight against Baer comes his way Braddock is a 10 to 1 underdog Baer is so destructive that the fight s promoter James Johnston forces both Braddock and Gould to watch a film of Baer in action just so he can maintain later that he warned them what Braddock was up against as Baer had reportedly killed 2 men in the ring Braddock demonstrates no fear The arrogant Baer attempts to intimidate him even taunting Mae in public that her man might not survive When he says this she becomes so angry that she throws a drink at him She is unable to attend the fight at the Madison Square Garden Bowl or even to listen to it on the radio On June 13 1935 in one of the greatest upsets in boxing history Braddock defeats the seemingly invincible Baer to become the heavyweight champion of the world An epilogue reveals that Braddock would lose his title to Joe Louis who would later call Braddock the most courageous man I ever fought and later worked on the building of the Verrazzano Bridge owning and operating heavy machinery on the docks where he worked during the Depression and that he and Mae used his boxing income to buy a house where they spent the rest of their lives Cast editRussell Crowe as James J Braddock Renee Zellweger as Mae Braddock Paul Giamatti as Joe Gould Bruce McGill as James Johnston Craig Bierko as Max Baer Paddy Considine as Mike Wilson David Huband as Ford Bond Connor Price as Jay Braddock Ariel Waller as Rosemarie Rosy Braddock Patrick Louis as Howard Braddock Rosemarie DeWitt as Sara Wilson Linda Kash as Mrs Gould Nicholas Campbell as Sporty Lewis Gene Pyrz as Jake Chuck Shamata as Father Roddick Ron Canada as Joe Jeanette Alicia Johnston as Alice Troy Ross as John Henry Lewis Mark Simmons as Art Lasky Art Binkowski as Corn Griffin David Litzinger as Abe Feldman Matthew G Taylor as Primo Carnera Rance Howard as Announcer Al Fazin Robert Norman Smith as reporter Angelo Dundee as boxing trainer Clint Howard as Abe Feldman fight refereeProduction editDuring filming in Toronto several areas were redressed to resemble 1930s New York The Richmond Street side of The Bay s Queen Street store was redressed as Madison Square Garden complete with fake store fronts and period stop lights A stretch of Queen Street East between Broadview and Carlaw was also made up to appear to be from the 1930s and dozens of period cars were parked along the road Maple Leaf Gardens was used for all the fight scenes and many scenes were filmed in the Distillery District Filming also took place in Hamilton Ontario at the harbour for the dock workers scene 4 The main apartment was shot north of St Clair Avenue on Lauder Avenue on the west side An awning was put up for a dress shop later turned into a real coffee shop The Toronto Transit Commission s historic Peter Witt streetcar and two more cars from the nearby Halton County Radial Railway were used for the filming travelling on Toronto s existing streetcar tracks Release editIn a campaign to boost ticket sales after the film s low opening AMC Theatres advertised on June 24 2005 that in 30 markets about 150 theaters nationwide it would offer a refund to any ticket buyer dissatisfied with the film 5 The advertisement published in The New York Times and other papers and on internet film sites read AMC believes Cinderella Man is one of the finest motion pictures of the year We believe so strongly that you ll enjoy Cinderella Man we re offering a Money Back Guarantee The promotion moderately increased box office revenue for a short period while at least 50 patrons demanded refunds Following suit Cinemark Theatres also offered a money back guarantee in 25 markets that did not compete with AMC Theatres AMC had last employed such a strategy in limited markets for the 1988 release of Mystic Pizza 6 while 20th Century Fox had unsuccessfully tried a similar ploy for its 1994 remake of Miracle on 34th Street Reception editCritical response edit Rotten Tomatoes reported an approval rating of 80 based on 215 reviews with an average rating of 7 4 10 The website s critics consensus reads With grittiness and an evocative sense of time and place Cinderella Man is a powerful underdog story And Ron Howard and Russell Crowe prove to be a solid combination 7 Metacritic assigned the film a weighted average score of 69 out of 100 based on 40 critics indicating generally favorable reviews 8 Audiences polled by CinemaScore gave the film a rare average grade of A 9 Roger Ebert of The Chicago Sun Times gave the film three and a half out of four stars He wrote that while Cinderella Man was effecting as a boxing movie its true genius was in Giamatti s home run portrayal of Gould and Crowe s against type performance as a level headed sweet tempered family man You d have to go back to actors like James Stewart and Spencer Tracy to find such goodness and gentleness 10 The film earned 61 million at the US box office and 108 million worldwide 3 Accolades edit Award Date of ceremony Category Recipient s Result Ref Academy Awards March 5 2006 Best Supporting Actor Paul Giamatti Nominated 11 12 Best Film Editing Mike Hill and Daniel P Hanley Nominated Best Makeup David LeRoy Anderson and Lance Anderson Nominated Australian Film Institute Awards November 26 2005 AFI International Award for Best Actor Russell Crowe Won 13 14 Boston Society of Film Critics December 11 2005 Best Supporting Actor Paul Giamatti Won 15 British Academy Film Awards February 19 2006 Best Original Screenplay Akiva Goldsman and Cliff Hollingsworth Nominated 16 17 Chicago Film Critics Association January 9 2006 Best Supporting Actor Paul Giamatti Nominated 18 Critics Choice Awards January 9 2006 Best Picture Cinderella Man Nominated 19 20 21 Best Director Ron Howard Nominated Best Actor Russell Crowe Nominated Best Supporting Actor Paul Giamatti Won Dallas Fort Worth Film Critics Association December 19 2005 Top 10 Films Cinderella Man 5th place 22 23 Best Actor Russell Crowe 5th place Best Supporting Actor Paul Giamatti Runner up Empire Awards March 13 2006 Best Director Ron Howard Nominated 24 Best Actress Renee Zellweger Nominated ESPY Awards July 13 2005 Best Sports Movie Cinderella Man Nominated 25 Florida Film Critics Circle December 24 2005 Best Supporting Actor Paul Giamatti Won 26 27 Golden Globe Awards January 16 2006 Best Actor in a Motion Picture Drama Russell Crowe Nominated 28 29 Best Supporting Actor in a Motion Picture Paul Giamatti Nominated Golden Trailer Awards May 26 2005 Summer 2005 Blockbuster Cinderella Man Nominated 30 Hochi Film Awards December 19 2005 Best International Picture Cinderella Man Won 31 32 Hollywood Film Awards October 24 2005 Hollywood Screenwriter Award Akiva Goldsman and Cliff Hollingsworth Won 33 34 35 Japan Academy Film Prize March 3 2006 Outstanding Foreign Language Film Cinderella Man Nominated 36 London Film Critics Circle February 8 2006 British Supporting Actor of the Year Paddy Considine Nominated 37 Motion Picture Sound Editors Golden Reel Awards March 4 2006 Best Sound Editing in Feature Film Dialogue amp ADR Anthony J Ciccolini Deborah Wallach Stan Bochner Dan Korintus and Kenna Doeringer Nominated 38 39 40 Nastro d Argento February 7 2006 Best Director of a Foreign Film Ron Howard Nominated 41 42 Online Film Critics Society January 16 2006 Best Supporting Actor Paul Giamatti Nominated 43 44 Sant Jordi Awards April 25 2006 Best Foreign Actor Paul Giamatti Won 45 Satellite Awards December 17 2005 Best Motion Picture Drama Cinderella Man Nominated 46 Best Overall DVD Cinderella Man Nominated Screen Actors Guild Awards January 29 2006 Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Leading Role Russell Crowe Nominated 47 48 49 Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Supporting Role Paul Giamatti Won St Louis Film Critics Association Best Picture Cinderella Man Nominated Best Actor Russell Crowe Nominated Best Supporting Actor Paul Giamatti Nominated Best Supporting Actress Renee Zellweger Nominated Toronto Film Critics Association December 21 2005 Best Supporting Actor Paul Giamatti Won 50 Vancouver Film Critics Circle February 7 2006 Best Supporting Actor Paul Giamatti Nominated Washington D C Area Film Critics Association December 13 2005 Best Director Ron Howard Nominated Best Supporting Actor Paul Giamatti Won 51 52 Women Film Critics Circle December 28 2005 Best Title In Recognition of the Hopefully Inner Female in Every Macho Guy Cinderella Man Won 53 Writers Guild of America Awards February 4 2006 Best Original Screenplay Akiva Goldsman and Cliff Hollingsworth Nominated 54 Young Artist Awards March 25 2006 Best Family Feature Film Drama Cinderella Man Nominated 55 Legacy editMain article Russell Crowe s jockstrap In April 2018 Crowe auctioned off as part of his divorce auction a number of props he owned which were used by him in his various films including a jockstrap pair of shorts and robe which were worn by Crowe in Cinderella Man The items from the film as well as the other items on auction were bought by the HBO television show Last Week Tonight with John Oliver with the jockstrap having sold for 7 000 The items purchased were then donated to the last operating Blockbuster Video store in Alaska 56 The jockstrap was reported missing however in the final episode of season 5 of Last Week Tonight John Oliver revealed that it had been taken back and showed a short heist parody filmed with it See also editList of boxing filmsReferences edit a b Cinderella Man 35mm Australian Classification Board Retrieved July 19 2021 Cinderella Man 12A BBFC July 1 2005 Retrieved February 8 2024 a b c Cinderella Man 2005 Box Office Mojo Retrieved 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