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Lesse Holstrom is the original director of the film.
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Some professional fighters acted as Braddock's opponents. Before shooting, they were told to punch as close to Russell Crowe as possible. Unfortunately, they sometimes couldn't control it in time and often injured Crowe by mistake.
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During the filming of the film, Crowe suffered multiple concussions and his teeth broke.
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The photographer once put the camera in the tire and let the fighter hit the tire to create a first-person perspective.
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Penny Marshall had hoped to direct the film.
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Rosemary DeWitt, who plays Sara in the film, is Braddock's granddaughter.
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Although the film won rave reviews in 2005, the box office was bleak, and the box office remained at $50 million four weeks after its release. In order to keep the film, the AMC cinema chain even offered a money-back guarantee. If the audience doesn't like the film, the theater will refund it in full.
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Matt Damon, Ben Affleck, Billy Bob Thornton, Cliff Owen and Mark Wahlberg have all been candidates to play Braddock.
Cinderella Man behind the scenes gags
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Extended Reading
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Joe Gould: [Between rounds] You gotta stop some of those lefts!
Jim Braddock: You see any gettin' past my head?
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Mike Wilson: Screw FDR, Hoover, they're all the same, I come home one day I'm standing in my living room, and between the mortgage and the market and the God damn lawyer that was supposed to be working for me, it stopped being mine, it all stopped being mine, FDR isn't give me my house back yet