Million Dollar Baby

When Maggie is taking her mother to the new home she just bought her, there are palm trees around the other houses in the neighborhood.

This scene is supposed to be in a small town in Missouri, where palm trees do not grow.

The "Everlast" patch on the speed bag moves repeatedly between shots after Frankie begins to train Maggie (the last half of the speed bag scene).

When Frankie introduces Maggie to one of the managers at the gym, movie lights can be seen reflected in the sunglasses hanging on his shirt.

When Maggie is training with Frankie in the ring, you can see the power pack on her back.

When Eddie is reading a magazine, while on his bed, Frankie enters the Gym with a hamburger.

Eddie throws the magazine on the bed to see who has entered.

The magazine is seen on the pillow, wide open.

The magazine is next seen closed and almost out of sight.

When Maggie is sparring at the gym before her first fight, Frankie calls her over to talk.

Her ponytail changes position from down her back to over her shoulder between front and back shots.

When Frankie removes Maggie's ventilator to administer a lethal dose of adrenaline, she is clearly breathing on her own.

Earlier in the movie, Eddie's voice-over noted that Maggie will never be able to breathe on her own again.

Eddie Dupris claims that a knockout is caused when the neck turns a certain degree after which the human body takes over and shuts itself down for safety reasons.

While generally unknown, it is widely believed that a knockout is actually caused by the rattling of the brain against the skull causing severe trauma resulting in a concussion.

When Frankie & Maggie leave Maggie's hometown of Theodosia, MO, they pass a road sign with "160" inside a Missouri outline, the correct sign for Missouri State Highway 160.

However, the main highway through real-life Theodosia (in far southern Missouri, just north of the Arkansas border and east of Branson) is U.

Highway 160.

During Maggie's first fight, the manager takes her mouthpiece and rinses it but never gives it back to her.

- PLOTWhen Frankie is training Willy in the ring, Maggie walks in to begin training.

She is carrying a new, expensive Ogio gym bag even though she's supposed to be so poor she has to scrape change together to buy a speed bag.

The back of Maggie's robe has the phrase "Mo Cuishle".

However the correct spelling in Irish Gaeilge is "Mo Chuisle".

The Blue Bear was the East German Champion sometime before German unification in 1990.

Since the movie takes place in 2004 (we see _"The Apprentice" (2004)_ (qv) advertised on a bus), she is now from the united Germany.

The first scene with Father Horvak is an overhead shot of him leaving the church talking with a parishioner.

The parishioner has a bag in her right hand.

The next shot switches to a head-on shot of them a second later but the parishioner has the bag in her left hand, too fast for her to have switched hands between the two shots.

When Maggie regains consciousness, she speaks to Frankie.

She has a tracheotomy tube attached to a ventilator, which makes speaking by mouth impossible.

When Frankie comes into the room to euthanize Maggie, he sits on the bed beside her.

Behind him you can see both her legs under the covers, even though her left leg was amputated.

When Maggie is being ventilated her right eye is swollen, but in the next clip it is her left eye that is bloated.

The shot is a reflection in the door-mirror, so left and right are reversed.