The Fighter is a true sports story based on the lives of half-brothers Dicky Eklund and Micky Ward, two real-life boxers from Lowell, Massachusetts. Their story is one of contrasts — Dicky is ...

By Rita Savard rsavard@lowellsun.com. She’s fire and grit. A chain-smoking bleached blonde with big hair and an even bigger attitude. Some might get stuck on one picture of Alice Ward in The … ...

The Fighter is based on the true story of Lowell, Massachusetts, light welterweight champ "Irish" Micky Ward, but, starring Boston working-class hero Mark Wahlberg, it plays as a Rocky-fied fairy ...

BOSTON (CBS) - Former boxer Micky Ward of Lowell may be 45 years old now, but he's still swinging away. His hard-knocks story is chronicled in the new movie, "The Fighter" starring Dorchester ...

The film, "The Fighter," is now available on video. Mark Wahlberg plays boxer Micky Ward, Christian Bale (Best Supporting Actor) is his goofy crackhead half-brother, Melissa Leo (Best Supporting ...

The Fighter is based on the true story of light-welterweight champ "Irish" Micky Ward from Lowell, Massachusetts. But starring Boston working-class hero Mark Wahlberg, it plays as a Rocky-fied fairy ...

In the ring he is "Irish" Micky Ward. At home, in Massachusetts he is "The Pride of Lowell." And to Hollywood, he is "The Fighter." It took more than a few punches for the blue collar boxer to ...

JOJO WHILDEN Mark Wahlberg, right, as Micky Ward in "The Fighter," with Christian Bale. Long before he ever put on a pair of boxing gloves, Micky Ward was standing up and taking blows. Those ...

Half-brothers Dicky Eklund (left), 53, and Micky Ward, 45. The Fighter director David O. Russell asked acclaimed photographer Danielle Levitt to document the people of gritty Lowell, Mass. A ...

The Fighter — a film starring Mark Wahlberg and Christian Bale — chronicles the lives of former professional boxers “Irish” Micky Ward and his older brother Dickie Eklund, is scheduled to ...