Cinderella Man
starring Russell Crowe and Renee Zellweger
The story of James J Braddock, an Irishman from New Jersey who was in the last throes of a promising but stunted career. It speaks volumes about Russell Crowe's acting abilities that he can take a standard story "down on luck man overcomes odds to beat villain" and make it scintillating. I'd heard the boxing scenes were a bit stunted, but they seemed pretty good to me. Definitely better fight scenes than Raging Bull, though Raging Bull may have had more of a interesting and involving cinematic story. 8/10