Eighty-three percent of the nation’s movie critics gave The Cinderella Man a thumbs-up review after the movie’s June 3 opening when it took in $18.6 million, the best box office performance of that weekend’s new movies.
The story and original screenplay for the film about Depression-era boxer Jim Braddock were developed by Barnwell native Cliff Hollingsworth, who received his bachelor’s degree in journalism and his master’s degree in education from the University in 1977 and 1979.
Ebert & Roeper gave the movie a Two Thumbs Way Up review, while Gene Shalit of NBC’s The Today Show said it was “Absolutely the best movie of the year so far. By far.”
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Cliff Hollingsworth
