Cinderella Man

At one point - given as 1933 - 'Jimmy Braddock' (qv) reports a dream of dining at the Ritz with 'Mickey Rooney (I)' (qv).

Then only 13, Mickey Rooney was in the film business but not a name to recognize in Braddock's slum.

He starred in a series of comedy shorts at the time, but going by the name of Mickey McGuire.

Only from the late 1930s through the 1940s would Mickey Rooney become a top star and household name.

While the Braddocks were entering the fancy restaurant, the band was playing an ebullient version of Opus One.

Opus One wasn't out until 1944.

When 'Jimmy Braddock' (qv) first shows his wife the $175 his manager gave him, in order for him to train and get back in shape, he holds the money between his index finger and his middle finger.

In the next shot, he holds it between his thumb and his index finger.

When Mae visits 'Jimmy Braddock' (qv) in the locker room before the 'Max Baer (I)' (qv) fight, his left suspender is in a different position from each angle.

The credits list 'Benny Goodman (I)' (qv)'s version of "Don't Be That Way" as the song playing in the club when 'Jimmy Braddock' (qv) meets 'Max Baer (I)' (qv).

That version of the song was first performed/recorded several years later, in 1938, at Carnegie Hall.

In a shot of Joe Gould sitting in his car, you can clearly see the leaves of a palm tree reflected in the automobile's window.

This scene takes place in the New York/New Jersey area, where there are no palm trees.

At the end of the final fight scene, when 'Jimmy Braddock' (qv) is celebrating with his corner, one of his trainers, the man who Braddock kisses on top of his head, is wearing modern spectacles.

'Jimmy Braddock' (qv) goes to Central Park in March, 1935 and walks through a Hooverville in search of his friend Mike Wilson.

New York's primary Depression Hooverville in 1935 was located on 10th Avenue near the East River (as portrayed in _My Man Godfrey (1936)_ (qv)).

There was a small Hooverville in Central Park located in the drained reservoir, not on the grass as portrayed in the film.

When adequate fill could be found for it, the homeless were evicted, and the area was transformed into the park's Great Lawn.

Landscaping work was completed by April, 1933, so Central Park's Hooverville had been gone a full two years when Braddock visits it in _Cinderella Man (2005)_ (qv).

In the dock yard working scene, a modern-day crane delivers the sacks that 'Jimmy Braddock' (qv) loads.

'Max Baer (I)' (qv) is shown wearing a robe with his name on the back.

In reality, the robe that Baer wore to both of his title fits was a prop from the movie _The Prizefighter and the Lady (1933)_ (qv).

Baer played a character named "Steve Morgan", and that was the name on the back of the robe.

Opening scene is set in late November on East Coast, but despite undoubtedly chilly temperatures, characters sit outside on patio at night without coats; trees and grass are still green.

When 'Jimmy Braddock' (qv) receives the $19 in assistance, the teller gives him two 2-dollar bills of a design first used in 1976.

Madison Square Garden's marquee overhanging Eighth Avenue is noticeably smaller and not as wide as the real one was.

Also, the traffic is shown passing it from right to left, south and downtown.

Traffic on Eighth Avenue goes in the opposite direction, from left to right, north and uptown.

'Jimmy Braddock' (qv) passes a movie poster for the film _S.

Iceberg (1933)_ (qv), misspelled "Iceburg.

" The family enters the apartment after the electricity has been turned on again.

'Jimmy Braddock' (qv) is the only one with snow covering his hat and jacket.

The rest of the family has no snow on their outer clothes.

During the press conference before the 'Max Baer (I)' (qv) fight, one reporter identifies himself as being from the New York Herald.

In fact, the paper had been known as the Herald Tribune since 1924, when the Herald and the Tribune merged.

When 'Jimmy Braddock' (qv) wins his first comeback fight, two scenes are in the wrong order.

Braddock turns and looks at Gould before Gould calls out his name as he is climbing into the ring.

The receipt that 'Jimmy Braddock' (qv) gives at the welfare office is about $50 off from the actual amount that Braddock had borrowed.

'Russell Crowe' (qv) pointed this out to the director who decided to 'leave it in to prove that it's just a movie'.

When Braddock is viewing the footage of Max Baer killing Frankie Campell in the ring, at the end two people start to pick up Frankie's body.

His left arm starts to slide off his body until he raises it slightly for a moment.

This is definitely my favorite dramatic movie of all time and it totally berates me on why no Oscar love. Award shows are tainted anyway, so who cares right?

Cinderella Man is directed by Ron Howard and stars Russell Crowe as James Braddock, a rags to riches boxer that tries to make a life during the Great Depression. The story follows Braddock, and his wife (Renee Zellweger) as he rises from a very bad boxer, to a very good boxer, and the conflicts that this causes in his marriage, and the ever so hard time known as the Depression.

Defiantly it deserves more rating that it has. It has everything in it.

"In all the history of the boxing game you find no human interest story to compare with the life narrative of James J. Braddock" is how the famed writer (and boxing fan) Damon Runyon described the Boxer he dubbed "Cinderella Man".

The movie started boring, but soon really picked up. By the end I was boxing inside, trying to help Braddock...

This movie is my favorite movie of all time. It is that damn good.

The producing-directing team of A Beautiful Mind crafted this true story of an impoverished Irish-American boxer from Jersey. It's the Depression era, and James J.

It is an excellent movie. I usually be touched when a movie is based on a true story.

This is a classic story that you see someone go from nothing at all to having success and having everything he could imagine. James Braddock (Russel Crowe), a once proud and successful boxer had the glory and won every bout he ever fought.