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Cast

• Russell Crowe - Jim Braddock
• Rance Howard
• Paddy Considine - Mike Wilson
• Paddy Considine - Hank
• Craig Bierko - Max Baer
• Nicholas Campbell - Sporty Lewis
• Ron Canada - Joe Jeanette
• Ron Canada
• Rosemarie DeWitt - Sara
• Paul Giamatti - Joe Gould
• Paul Giamatti
• Bruce McGill - Jimmy Johnston
• Bruce McGill
• Linda Kash - Lucille Gould
• Angelo Dundee
• David Huband - Ford Bond
• Renée Zellweger - Mrs. Braddock
• Renée Zellweger - Mae Braddock
• Gene Pyrz - Jake
• Alicia Johnston
• Troy Amos-Ross
• Art Binkowski
• David Litziinger
• Ariel Waller - Rosemarie Braddock
• Patrick Louis - Howard Braddock
• Connor Price - Jay Braddock
• Mark Simmons
• Nick Campbell - Sporty Lewis

Crew

• Co-Executive Producer: James Whitaker
• Editor: Mike Hill
• Executive Producer: Todd Hallowell
• Second Unit Director: Todd Hallowell
• Costume Designer: Daniel Orlandi
• Cinematographer: Salvatore Totino
• Associate Producer: Kathleen McGill
• Screenwriter: Akiva Goldsman
• Producer: Penny Marshall
• Screenwriter: Charlie Mitchell
• Production Designer: Wynn P. Thomas
• Sound/Sound Designer: John J. Thomson
• Choreography: Nick Powell
• Consultant/advisor: Steve Lucescu
• Makeup: Ann Brodie
• Director: Ron Howard
• Producer: Brian Grazer
• Composer (Music Score): Thomas Newman
• Second Unit Camera: Glen Keenan
• Set Decorator: Gordon Sim
• Consultant/advisor: Angelo Dundee
• Art Director: Dan Yarhi
• Set Designer: Gordon White
• Casting: Jane Jenkins ,Janet Hirshenson
• Associate Producer: Louisa Velis
• Consultant/advisor: Peter Heller
• Art Director: Peter Grundy
• Set Designer: Michael Madden
• Consultant/advisor: Jack Newfield
• First Assistant Director: William M. Connor
• Supervising Sound Editor: Chic Ciccolini III
• Makeup Special Effects: David Leroy Anderson
• Set Designer: David Hirschfield
• Consultant/advisor: Mike DeLisa
• Special Effects Coordinator: Laird McMurray
• Art Director: Russell Moore
• Set Designer: Russell Moore
• Visual Effects Supervisor: Mark O. Forker
• Consultant/advisor: Suzanne Wasserman
• Editor: Dan Hanley
• Screenwriter: Cliff Hollingsworth
• Short Story Author: Cliff Hollingsworth
• Makeup: Lance Anderson
• Screen Story: Cliff Hollingsworth
• Director: Ronny Howard
• Producer: Ron Howard

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Cinderella Man: AMG Review
Perry Seibert , AMG

Cinderella Man probably isn't Ron Howard's best film, but it might be his most quintessential one. A man whose talents have always rested on getting audiences to like and root for characters, Howard uses every weapon -- acting, casting, lighting, editing, art direction, music -- at a filmmaker's disposal to win viewers over. He won more than half the battle to make Braddock likable as soon as he cast Russell Crowe. Braddock offers the kind of role he does better than anybody -- a man with a maelstrom of emotions swelling under the surface who, when given the opportunity, is able to exorcise those feelings in physical activity. He allows Braddock to lose much of his dignity without making him pathetic. Howard's ability to get good performances, his judicious lack of a saccharine score, and the detailed but never showy period details add up to a very Howardesque quality that might be called melodramatic realism. There are almost always interesting supporting performances in Howard's films, and Cinderella Man is no exception. Paul Giamatti, an actor simply unable to do anything out of character no matter who the character is, serves up yet another award-caliber performance. Set in a world that would not seem to reward intelligence, Giamatti's character thrives on that very attribute. He knows how to manipulate those around him, but never does so in a harmful way. His scenes with ace character actor Bruce McGill are textbook examples of great no-frills acting. The film has moments where it overreaches for the melodrama, and the drive of the film stalls slightly during the extended third act, where the audience is left waiting for too long for the final fight to start, but Cinderella Man is at its heart old-fashioned, crowd-pleasing entertainment made and performed without cynicism. ~ Perry Seibert, All Movie Guide