The Fighter

“Every dream deserves a fighting chance.”

In Lowell, Massachusetts, the Ward and Eklund family lives crowded together, loud and close. Micky Ward (Mark Wahlberg) is a boxer with a real shot at a title, and his older half-brother Dicky Eklund (Christian Bale), a former fighter hooked on drugs, is his trainer. David O. Russell follows Micky as his mother Alice (Melissa Leo) and a new girlfriend, Charlene (Amy Adams), pull him in different directions.