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* MemeticMutation: ''Series/XPlay'' made a running gag out of "the Stool of [[spoiler:Paraplegia]]" (though they got a detail wrong, as it should be the "Stool of [[spoiler:Quadraplegia]]").
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* DarknessInducedAudienceApathy: The tone starts out dark and only gets bleaker as the movie goes on. Nearly everyone in this movie is horrible. Maggie’s mother is an [[EntitledBastard Entitled]] LazyBum who refuses to show an ounce of gratitude when Maggie buys her a ''house.'' The rest of her family is just as bad and shows no sympathy to her [[spoiler:being a quadriplegic]]. The boxing gym is filled with Jerkasses who find amusement in beating up a ''mentally disabled kid''. Maggie’s final opponent is a remorseless cheater who illegally punches Maggie after the round ends purely out of spite, [[spoiler:causing Maggie's paralysis (admittedly unintentionally). The paralysis itself is absolutely heartbreaking, with Maggie being unable to move anything below her neck, having to have a leg amputated due to bedsores, and kept under constant sedation after attempting suicide.]] It’s no wonder Andrew Sarris of the New York Observer said that “...no movie in my memory has depressed me more than Million Dollar Baby.”



* TrueArtIsAngsty: As mentioned on the main page, the movie won 4 oscars including Best Picture.

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* TooBleakStoppedCaring: The tone starts out dark and only gets bleaker as the movie goes on. Nearly everyone in this movie is horrible. Maggie’s mother is an [[EntitledBastard Entitled]] LazyBum who refuses to show an ounce of gratitude when Maggie buys her a ''house.'' The rest of her family is just as bad and shows no sympathy to her [[spoiler:being a quadriplegic]]. The boxing gym is filled with Jerkasses who find amusement in beating up a ''mentally disabled kid''. Maggie’s final opponent is a remorseless cheater who illegally punches Maggie after the round ends purely out of spite, [[spoiler:causing Maggie's paralysis (admittedly unintentionally). The paralysis itself is absolutely heartbreaking, with Maggie being unable to move anything below her neck, having to have a leg amputated due to bedsores, and kept under constant sedation after attempting suicide.]] It’s no wonder Andrew Sarris of the ''New York Observer'' said that “...no movie in my memory has depressed me more than Million Dollar Baby.”
* TrueArtIsAngsty: As mentioned on the main page, the movie won 4 oscars Oscars including Best Picture.
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* TrueArtIsAngsty: As mentioned on the main page, the movie won 4 oscars including Best Picture.
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* DarknessInducedAudienceApathy: The tone starts out dark and only gets bleaker as the movie goes on. Nearly everyone in this movie is horrible. Maggie’s mother is [[EntitledBastard Entitled]] LazyBum who refuses to show an ounce of gratitude when Maggie buys her a ''house.'' The rest of her family is just as bad and shows no sympathy to her [[spoiler:being a quadriplegic]]. The boxing gym is filled with Jerkasses who find amusement in beating up a ''mentally disabled kid''. Maggie’s final opponent is a remorseless cheater who illegally punches Maggie after the round ends purely out of spite, [[spoiler:causing Maggie's paralysis (admittedly unintentionally). The paralysis itself is absolutely heartbreaking, with Maggie being unable to move anything below her neck, having to have a leg amputated due to bedsores, and kept under constant sedation after attempting suicide.]] It’s no wonder Andrew Sarris of the New York Observer said that “...no movie in my memory has depressed me more than Million Dollar Baby.”

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* DarknessInducedAudienceApathy: The tone starts out dark and only gets bleaker as the movie goes on. Nearly everyone in this movie is horrible. Maggie’s mother is an [[EntitledBastard Entitled]] LazyBum who refuses to show an ounce of gratitude when Maggie buys her a ''house.'' The rest of her family is just as bad and shows no sympathy to her [[spoiler:being a quadriplegic]]. The boxing gym is filled with Jerkasses who find amusement in beating up a ''mentally disabled kid''. Maggie’s final opponent is a remorseless cheater who illegally punches Maggie after the round ends purely out of spite, [[spoiler:causing Maggie's paralysis (admittedly unintentionally). The paralysis itself is absolutely heartbreaking, with Maggie being unable to move anything below her neck, having to have a leg amputated due to bedsores, and kept under constant sedation after attempting suicide.]] It’s no wonder Andrew Sarris of the New York Observer said that “...no movie in my memory has depressed me more than Million Dollar Baby.”

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* DarknessInducedAudienceApathy: Whooooo boy. Make no mistake: this movie is wonderfully directed, the boxing matches in particular deserve tons of praise, the writing is amazing, and each of the actors gives their all with their performances. But the tone starts out dark and only gets bleaker as the movie goes on. Nearly everyone in this movie is horrible. Maggie’s mother is a sociopathic idiot who refuses to show an ounce of gratitude when Maggie buys her a ''house.'' She—not to mention the rest of the family—only gets worse once Maggie is crippled. The boxing gym is filled with Jerkasses who find amusement in beating up a ''mentally disabled kid''. Maggie’s final opponent is a remorseless cheater who illegally punches Maggie after the round ends purely out of spite, causing Maggie's paralysis (admittedly unintentionally). The paralysis itself is absolutely heartbreaking, with Maggie being unable to move anything below her neck, having to have a leg amputated due to bedsores, and kept under constant sedation after attempting suicide. It really says something when the "sweet" of the BitterSweetEnding is her wish for death finally being fulfilled. It’s no wonder Andrew Sarris of the New York Observer said that “...no movie in my memory has depressed me more than Million Dollar Baby.”
* EndingFatigue: The time duration from Maggie’s paralysis to the end credits is 40 minutes. Some critics complain that roughly half of the time could be removed and the film would have gone under the 2 hour mark (it's 2 hours and 12 minutes long).

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* DarknessInducedAudienceApathy: Whooooo boy. Make no mistake: this movie is wonderfully directed, the boxing matches in particular deserve tons of praise, the writing is amazing, and each of the actors gives their all with their performances. But the The tone starts out dark and only gets bleaker as the movie goes on. Nearly everyone in this movie is horrible. Maggie’s mother is a sociopathic idiot [[EntitledBastard Entitled]] LazyBum who refuses to show an ounce of gratitude when Maggie buys her a ''house.'' She—not to mention the The rest of the family—only gets worse once Maggie her family is crippled.just as bad and shows no sympathy to her [[spoiler:being a quadriplegic]]. The boxing gym is filled with Jerkasses who find amusement in beating up a ''mentally disabled kid''. Maggie’s final opponent is a remorseless cheater who illegally punches Maggie after the round ends purely out of spite, causing [[spoiler:causing Maggie's paralysis (admittedly unintentionally). The paralysis itself is absolutely heartbreaking, with Maggie being unable to move anything below her neck, having to have a leg amputated due to bedsores, and kept under constant sedation after attempting suicide. It really says something when the "sweet" of the BitterSweetEnding is her wish for death finally being fulfilled. ]] It’s no wonder Andrew Sarris of the New York Observer said that “...no movie in my memory has depressed me more than Million Dollar Baby.”
* EndingFatigue: The time duration from Maggie’s paralysis [[spoiler:Maggie’s paralysis]] to the end credits is 40 minutes. Some critics complain that roughly half of the time could be removed and the film would have gone under the 2 hour mark (it's 2 hours and 12 minutes long).
* ItWasHisSled: [[spoiler:Maggie is rendered a quadriplegic from a boxing match and has Frankie kill her by request.]]
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* DarknessInducedAudienceApathy: Whooooo boy. Make no mistake, this movie is wonderfully directed, the boxing matches in particular deserve tons of praise, its writing is amazing and everyone gives their all with their performances, there is not a single bad actor in the movie and it deserves respect for those aspects but the tone starts out dark and only gets bleaker as the movie goes on and nearly ''everyone'' in this movie is horrible. Maggie’s mother is a terrible, sociopathic idiot who refuses to show an ounce of gratitude when Maggie buys her a fucking ''house'' and only gets worse when Maggie is crippled and the rest of the family isn’t any better, the boxing gym is filled with Jerkasses who find amusement in beating up a ''mentally disabled kid'', Maggie’s final opponent is a remorseless cheater who (admittedly unintentionally) cripples Maggie after the round ends purely out of spite and Maggie’s paralysis is absolutely heartbreaking, with her being unable to move anything below her neck, having to have a leg amputated due to bedsores and is kept under constant sedation after attempting suicide. It really says something when the sweet of the BitterSweetEnding is her wish for death finally being fulfilled. It’s no wonder Andrew Sarris of the New York Observer said that “...no movie in my memory has depressed me more than Million Dollar Baby.”

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* DarknessInducedAudienceApathy: Whooooo boy. Make no mistake, mistake: this movie is wonderfully directed, the boxing matches in particular deserve tons of praise, its the writing is amazing amazing, and everyone each of the actors gives their all with their performances, there is not a single bad actor in the movie and it deserves respect for those aspects but performances. But the tone starts out dark and only gets bleaker as the movie goes on and nearly ''everyone'' on. Nearly everyone in this movie is horrible. Maggie’s mother is a terrible, sociopathic idiot who refuses to show an ounce of gratitude when Maggie buys her a fucking ''house'' and only gets worse when Maggie is crippled and ''house.'' She—not to mention the rest of the family isn’t any better, the family—only gets worse once Maggie is crippled. The boxing gym is filled with Jerkasses who find amusement in beating up a ''mentally disabled kid'', kid''. Maggie’s final opponent is a remorseless cheater who (admittedly unintentionally) cripples illegally punches Maggie after the round ends purely out of spite and Maggie’s spite, causing Maggie's paralysis (admittedly unintentionally). The paralysis itself is absolutely heartbreaking, with her Maggie being unable to move anything below her neck, having to have a leg amputated due to bedsores bedsores, and is kept under constant sedation after attempting suicide. It really says something when the sweet "sweet" of the BitterSweetEnding is her wish for death finally being fulfilled. It’s no wonder Andrew Sarris of the New York Observer said that “...no movie in my memory has depressed me more than Million Dollar Baby.”
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* EndingFatigue: The time duration from Maggie’s paralysis to the end credits is 40 minutes. Some credits complain that roughly have of the time could be removed and the film would have gone under the 2 hour mark (its 2 hours and 12 minutes long).

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* EndingFatigue: The time duration from Maggie’s paralysis to the end credits is 40 minutes. Some credits critics complain that roughly have half of the time could be removed and the film would have gone under the 2 hour mark (its (it's 2 hours and 12 minutes long).
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* DarknessInducedAudienceApathy: Whooooo boy. Make no mistake, this movie is wonderfully directed, the boxing matches in particular deserve tons of praise, its writing is amazing and everyone gives their all with their performances, there is not a single bad actor in the movie and it deserves respect for those aspects but the tone starts out dark and only gets bleaker as the movie goes on and nearly ''everyone'' in this movie is horrible. Maggie’s mother is a terrible, sociopathic idiot who refuses to show an ounce of gratitude when Maggie buys her a fucking ''house'' and only gets worse when Maggie is crippled and the rest of the family isn’t any better, the boxing gym is filled with Jerkasses who find amusement in beating up a ''mentally disabled kid'', Maggie’s final opponent is a remorseless cheater who (admittedly unintentionally) cripples Maggie after the round ends purely out of spite and Maggie’s paralysis is absolutely heartbreaking, with her being unable to move anything below her neck, having to have a leg amputated due to bedsores and is kept under constant sedation after attempting suicide. It really says something when the sweet of the BitterSweetEnding is her wish for death finally being fulfilled.

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* DarknessInducedAudienceApathy: Whooooo boy. Make no mistake, this movie is wonderfully directed, the boxing matches in particular deserve tons of praise, its writing is amazing and everyone gives their all with their performances, there is not a single bad actor in the movie and it deserves respect for those aspects but the tone starts out dark and only gets bleaker as the movie goes on and nearly ''everyone'' in this movie is horrible. Maggie’s mother is a terrible, sociopathic idiot who refuses to show an ounce of gratitude when Maggie buys her a fucking ''house'' and only gets worse when Maggie is crippled and the rest of the family isn’t any better, the boxing gym is filled with Jerkasses who find amusement in beating up a ''mentally disabled kid'', Maggie’s final opponent is a remorseless cheater who (admittedly unintentionally) cripples Maggie after the round ends purely out of spite and Maggie’s paralysis is absolutely heartbreaking, with her being unable to move anything below her neck, having to have a leg amputated due to bedsores and is kept under constant sedation after attempting suicide. It really says something when the sweet of the BitterSweetEnding is her wish for death finally being fulfilled. It’s no wonder Andrew Sarris of the New York Observer said that “...no movie in my memory has depressed me more than Million Dollar Baby.”
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* DarknessInducedAudienceApathy: Whooooo boy. Make no mistake, this movie is wonderfully directed, the boxing matches in particular deserve tons of praise, it’s writing is amazing and everyone gives their all with their performances, there is not a single bad actor in the movie and it deserves respect for those aspects but the tone starts out dark and only gets bleaker as the movie goes on and nearly ''everyone'' in this movie is horrible. Maggie’s mother is a terrible, sociopathic idiot who refuses to show an ounce of gratitude when Maggie buys her a fucking ''house'' and only gets worse when Maggie is crippled and the rest of the family isn’t any better, the boxing gym is filled with Jerkasses who find amusement in beating up a ''mentally disabled kid'', Maggie’s final opponent is a remorseless cheater who (admittedly unintentionally) cripples Maggie after the round ends purely out of spite and Maggie’s paralysis is absolutely heartbreaking, with her being unable to move anything below her neck, having to have a leg amputated due to bedsores and is kept under constant sedation after attempting suicide. It really says something when the sweet of the BitterSweetEnding is her wish for death finally being fulfilled.

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* DarknessInducedAudienceApathy: Whooooo boy. Make no mistake, this movie is wonderfully directed, the boxing matches in particular deserve tons of praise, it’s its writing is amazing and everyone gives their all with their performances, there is not a single bad actor in the movie and it deserves respect for those aspects but the tone starts out dark and only gets bleaker as the movie goes on and nearly ''everyone'' in this movie is horrible. Maggie’s mother is a terrible, sociopathic idiot who refuses to show an ounce of gratitude when Maggie buys her a fucking ''house'' and only gets worse when Maggie is crippled and the rest of the family isn’t any better, the boxing gym is filled with Jerkasses who find amusement in beating up a ''mentally disabled kid'', Maggie’s final opponent is a remorseless cheater who (admittedly unintentionally) cripples Maggie after the round ends purely out of spite and Maggie’s paralysis is absolutely heartbreaking, with her being unable to move anything below her neck, having to have a leg amputated due to bedsores and is kept under constant sedation after attempting suicide. It really says something when the sweet of the BitterSweetEnding is her wish for death finally being fulfilled.
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* DarknessInducedAudienceApathy: Whooooo boy. Make no mistake, this movie is wonderfully directed, the boxing matches in particular deserve tons of praise, it’s writing is amazing and everyone gives their all with their performances, there is not a single bad actor in the movie and it deserves respect for those aspects but the tone starts out dark and only gets bleaker as the movie goes on and nearly ''everyone'' in this movie is horrible. Maggie’s mother is a terrible, sociopathic idiot who refuses to show an ounce of gratitude when Maggie buys her a fucking ''house'' and only gets worse when Maggie is crippled and the rest of the family isn’t any better, the boxing gym is filled with Jerkasses who find amusement in beating up a ''mentally disabled kid'', Maggie’s final opponent is a remorseless cheater who (admittedly unintentionally) cripples Maggie after the round ends purely out of spite and Maggie’s paralysis is absolutely heartbreaking, with her being unable to move anything below her neck, having to have a leg amputated due to bedsores and is kept under constant sedation after attempting suicide. It really says something when the sweet of the BitterSweetEnding is her wish for death finally being fulfilled.
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* RetroactiveRecognition: Apart from Jay Baruchel as Danger Barch, there's also Creator/AnthonyMackie (ComicBook/{{Falcon}} in the Franchise/MarvelCinematicUniverse) as Shawrelle Berry.

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* RetroactiveRecognition: Apart from Jay Baruchel as Danger Barch, there's also Creator/AnthonyMackie (ComicBook/{{Falcon}} (ComicBook/TheFalcon in the Franchise/MarvelCinematicUniverse) as Shawrelle Berry.
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* RetroactiveRecognition: Apart from Jay Baruchel as Danger Barch, there's also Creator/AnthonyMackie as Shawrelle Berry.

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* RetroactiveRecognition: Apart from Jay Baruchel as Danger Barch, there's also Creator/AnthonyMackie (ComicBook/{{Falcon}} in the Franchise/MarvelCinematicUniverse) as Shawrelle Berry.
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* RetroactiveRecognition: Apart from Jay Baruchel as Danger Barch, there's also Creator/AnthonyMackie as Shawrelle Berry

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* EndingFatigue: The time duration from Maggie’s paralysis to the end credits is 40 minutes. Some credits complain that roughly have of the time could be removed and the film would have gone under the 2 hour mark (its 2 hours and 12 minutes long).
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* EndingFatigue: A [[{{Tearjerker}} sad]] example. Maggie's misfortunes are so heart-wrenching that you wish for the movie to end faster. It doesn't.
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** And the icing on the tearjerking cake is [[https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=9nmW-WL-Zrg is this piece of music that plays during the end credits.]]
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** Maggie's family crosses it [[spoiler: when coming to visit her in the nursing home... after spending a week at Universal Studios and Disneyland, with the ulterior motive of wanting her to sign her money over to them. Maggie earns a SugarWiki/MomentOfAwesome by rejecting them and forcing them to leave without a cent.]]

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** Maggie's family crosses it [[spoiler: when coming to visit her in the nursing home... after spending a week at Universal Studios and Disneyland, [[Ride/DisneyThemeParks Disneyland]], with the ulterior motive of wanting her to sign her money over to them. Maggie earns a SugarWiki/MomentOfAwesome by rejecting them and forcing them to leave without a cent.]]
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* EndingFatigue: Maggie's misfortunes are so heart-wrenching that you wish for the movie to end faster. It doesn't.

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* EndingFatigue: A [[{{Tearjerker}} sad]] example. Maggie's misfortunes are so heart-wrenching that you wish for the movie to end faster. It doesn't.

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* MoralEventHorizon: Maggie's family crosses it [[spoiler: when coming to visit her in the nursing home... after spending a week at Universal Studios and Disneyland, with the ulterior motive of wanting her to sign her money over to them. Maggie earns a SugarWiki/MomentOfAwesome by rejecting them and forcing them to leave without a cent.]]

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Maggie's family crosses it [[spoiler: when coming to visit her in the nursing home... after spending a week at Universal Studios and Disneyland, with the ulterior motive of wanting her to sign her money over to them. Maggie earns a SugarWiki/MomentOfAwesome by rejecting them and forcing them to leave without a cent.]]
** Billie the Blue Bear crosses it [[spoiler: by being the one who disables Maggie.
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* UnfortunateImplications: The film caught a lot of flak from advocacy groups for the disabled, who claimed that it condones [[spoiler: euthanizing paralyzed people]], and that its ultimate message is [[spoiler: "life with a physical disability isn't worth living"]]. A few reviewers [[http://www.weeklystandard.com/Content/Public/Articles/000/000/005/307qsmui.asp claimed that it would have been a better movie if it had ended with]] [[spoiler: Maggie learning to cope with her disability and getting an education]].
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* UnfortunateImplications: The film caught a lot of flak from advocacy groups for the disabled, who claimed that it condones [[spoiler: euthanizing paralyzed people]], and that its ultimate message is [[spoiler: "life with a physical disability isn't worth living"]]. A few reviewers claimed that it would have been a better movie if it had ended with [[spoiler: Maggie learning to cope with her disability and getting an education]].
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* {{Narm}}: Maggie's family are such over-the-top redneck stereotypes that it can be hard to take them seriously.
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** Also goes for poor ol' [[JayBaruchel Danger Barch]]; all he wanted to do was become a prize fighter...

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** Also goes for poor ol' [[JayBaruchel [[Creator/JayBaruchel Danger Barch]]; all he wanted to do was become a prize fighter...
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**Also goes for poor ol' [[JayBaruchel Danger Barch]]; all he wanted to do was become a prize fighter...
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* MoralEventHorizon: Maggie's family crosses it [[spoiler: when coming to visit her in the nursing home... after spending a week at Universal Studios and Disneyland, with the ulterior motive of wanting her to sign her money over to them. Maggie earns a CrowningMomentOfAwesome by rejecting them and forcing them to leave without a cent.]]

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* MoralEventHorizon: Maggie's family crosses it [[spoiler: when coming to visit her in the nursing home... after spending a week at Universal Studios and Disneyland, with the ulterior motive of wanting her to sign her money over to them. Maggie earns a CrowningMomentOfAwesome SugarWiki/MomentOfAwesome by rejecting them and forcing them to leave without a cent.]]
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* TheWoobie: Maggie. Oh, dear God.

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* TheWoobie: Maggie. Oh, dear God.God.
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* TheWoobie: Maggie. Oh, dear God.

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* UnfortunateImplications: The film caught a lot of flak from advocacy groups for the disabled, who claimed that it condones [[spoiler: euthanizing paralyzed people]], and that its ultimate message is [[spoiler: "life with a physical disability isn't worth living"]]. A few reviewers claimed that it would have been a better movie if it had ended with [[spoiler: Maggie learning to cope with her disability and getting an education]].
* TheWoobie: Maggie. Oh, dear God.

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