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Boxer steps into ring to win his dignity

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A new movie starring Academy Award-winner Daniel Day-Lewis and Academy Award-nominee Emily Watson is now screening in Hong Kong.

After 14 years in prison, Danny (Day-Lewis) returns to the neighbourhood where Maggie (Watson) has managed to survive by marrying, and then raising a son by his best friend.

Suffering from loneliness, the boxing ring offers Danny a way to communicate with dignity and rebuild his life.

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The Boxer opens today at UA Queensway, Gateway, GV Hollywood, GV Mongkok.

Tom (Christian Slater) is an armoured car courier with his Uncle Charlie (Ed Asner), a veteran of the security business.

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Come hell or high water, he is determined to deliver safely the three million dollars entrusted to him. But his armoured car is caught in the rising waters of an immense Midwestern river flood.

Jim (Morgan Freeman), who is a career thief, is equally determined to get the money.

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