Explaining Film on Instagram: "The Fighter (2010) is a raw, true-story boxing drama about “Irish” Micky Ward (Mark Wahlberg), a working-class welterweight from Lowell, Massachusetts, who’s stuck in a losing streak while being mismanaged by his domineering mother Alice (Melissa Leo) and trained by his crack-addicted half-brother Dicky Eklund (Christian Bale), a former boxer living off one lucky fight against Sugar Ray Leonard. When Micky finally teams up with tough new girlfriend Charlene (Amy Ad