Eddie 'Scrap-Iron' Dupris ( Morgan Freeman), Frankie's friend and employee - and the film's narrator - encourages and helps Maggie.įrankie's prize prospect, 'Big Willie' Little, signs with successful manager Mickey Mack after becoming impatient with Frankie rejecting offers for a championship bout.
Maggie asks Frankie to train her, but he refuses as he doesn't train women and she's too old to begin a boxing career. Dunn is a cantankerous Irish-American trainer, revealed to be estranged from his daughter. Margaret 'Maggie' Fitzgerald ( Hilary Swank), a waitress from the Ozarks, shows up at the Hit Pit, a rundown Los Angeles gym owned and operated by Frankie Dunn ( Clint Eastwood).