Release Date:
Tuesday, December 6, 2005
OK, Ron Howard, we get it: The Great Depression was greatly depressing. We didn't need to watch more than an hour of special features to know that. (The movie was enough.) And if we wanted to learn about history, we'd finish our GED. Other than a couple minutes of footage of the actual Jim BraddockMax Baer fight in 1935 that inspired Cinderella Man, the nearly 90 minutes of DVD extras are long, dull, and pointlessunless you're dying to find out about the color palette in the film. The gift set DVD provides an extra 110 minutes of features, but they're just as bad as the regular DVDwithout even a discussion of the proper way to beat a hotel clerk with a phone. If you were one of the seven people who saw this five-star masterpiece in the theater, skip the DVD. If you didn't see it in the theater, save yourself some cash and rent the DVD.
Learn to beat up a defenseless bag.