In The Fighter, Christian Bale played the role of the charismatic but slightly daft brother and trainer of junior welterweight contender Micky Ward. Recently, Eklund visited Leo High School in Chicago.
Melissa Leo is, without question, an unrecognizable wonder as Alice Ward in The Fighter - a teased and acid-washed Lowell, Mass. version of the Sparta...
If you and your family are planning to see movies this holiday season, I can't recommend "The King's Speech" and "The Fighter" highly enough.
David O. Russell is on the phone, eager to talk about The Fighter, a movie whose unexpected dash to the top is not all that dissimilar from the story it tells.
I'm not a boxing fan, but when it's part of a good story my heart races. That's how I felt encountering Rocky many years ago, and the experience was matched at a screening of The Fighter.
Lowell, Massachusetts, with its ethnic enclaves and brick mills, is the perfect breeding ground for the great American story. Jack Kerouac, the French...
The power of prayer amazes famed boxer Micky Ward. Actor Mark Wahlberg portrays him in The Fighter, a Paramount movie being filmed in Lowell.
