# Shadowboxer (2005)

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**Runtime**: 93 min
**Genres**: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
**Directed by**: Lee Daniels
**Written by**: Will Rokos
**Starring**: Cuba Gooding Jr., Helen Mirren, Vanessa Ferlito, Macy Gray, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Stephen Dorff

> *Feeling Protected Is Very Seductive*

## Synopsis (in-house rewrite)

Harlem rooftops. Winter dusk. A silenced pistol cough.

Rose can't finish a hit, delivering the mob boss's baby instead of killing it. She and Mikey then guard mother and child, even as Rose succumbs to illness.

Lee Daniels goes full Sirk-by-way-of-Woo in this one.

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