Two films were viewed for this project. The first is Annie, a film made in the early 1980s about a girl in an orphanage. She is then taken to live in a mansion for a week with one of the richest men in this world. He doesn't like it at first, but he learns to love the little girl and adopts her. The second film, Cinderella Man, is about a boxer who loses his job after breaking his hand during a match. He is then left to look after his family. He slowly begins to get back on his feet as a boxer and fight again, much to his wife's disgust. For this project, I will discuss the similarities and differences between the films, as well as the time period, setting, and characters. Annie is the first film. Annie is set in the midst of depression in New. The film begins with Russell Crowe's James Braddock (a very different role from the one in L.A. Confidential), an Irish-American boxer who rises from a poor home life to the heights of stardom by becoming the heavyweight champion of the world. At the beginning of the film, Braddock is seen receiving non-shomer support from his wife Mae, in the presence of their young children at the dinner table. When one of the children asks for more food, Mae responds by saying, “Sorry, we need to save some for the kids.” This simple yet melancholy response reveals the complex dynamic of a man who has acquired all the manpower he will ever need and at the same time is literally struggling to keep his family's heads above water during the greatest financial decadence in American history . This is the story of an individual who beat the odds and gained worldwide recognition for her relentless pursuit of overcoming the daily struggles of the GreatMrs. Hannigan was a heavy drinker and therefore cared less about everything. In class, we learned how many people were fired from their jobs because there wasn't enough money to pay them. Rather than help him, the boxing venue kicked James out. We learned that many people had to struggle to find work. They had to work 200 times harder, and that's exactly what James did. He pushed himself to pass