Fighter, The

An intense, captivating, well-acted, factually based film in which divorced boxer "Irish" Mickey Ward (Mark Wahlberg), who has a young daughter (Caitlin Dwyer) and dates a spirited bartender (Amy Adams), is trained to fight by his emaciated, drug-addicted half-brother Dicky Ecklund (Christian Bale), who once fought Sugar Ray Leonard, in Lowell, Ma., is managed by his hotheaded mother (Melissa Leo), and is cheered on by his devoted dad (Jack McGee) and seven sisters (Jenna Lamia, Melissa McMeekin, Dendrie Taylor, Kate B. O'Brien, Bianca Hunter, Eric McDermott, and Jill Quigg) during the 1980s.
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