High on Crack Street: Lost Lives in Lowell.
An HBO documentary.
Dicky Eklund.
Christian Bale made this life semi-romantic and heroic.
Watch it and internalize what Hollywood can do to a character’s narrative. Powerful and sad and scary.
Tag Archives: “The Fighter”
Christian Bale
The Fighter – The Film
We went to see “The Fighter” this afternoon.
I was reluctant to go and see it. I grew up in Lowell. I attended the Dicky Eklund vs. Sugar Ray Leonard fight in Boston as a young adult. I watched the documentary about Lowell and crack addiction on HBO and we distribute that film on SnagFilms.com. Click here.
I kinda lived it. I trained with an uncle in one of the boxing gyms in Lowell for Silver Mittens. I have been to the Cosmos Club!
We all knew Dicky Eklund. We are basically the same age.
I must say that I thought the film was beautiful and moving and well acted and directed.
It brought back a lot of good and not so good memories for me. This film deserves all of its acclaim and Academy Award nominations. The actors were superb although the accents weren’t even close to being real. No one even asked for a “tonic.”
I did have to laugh as we left the theater because all I could think of was that my parents took me out of Brooklyn, NY to move to Lowell, Mass. because they thought I needed an upgrade in the neighborhood and the the company I kept. Can you imagine what Brooklyn was like that Lowell was an upgrade?! 
USA Today
TBD on “The Fighter”
A good one to read and a great one to watch. Click here. Thank you.
The Fighter
Here is the real life fighter from Lowell, Mass.
A riveting real life film. Go see The Fighter in theaters soon. Quite the film! But here is the real story. A story about a real family, a boxing family. The real “Dicki.” The real Micky.
Wicked real and wicked awesome. What a film on SnagFilms.com. Watch this before you go see The Fighter starring Mark Wahlberg.