A great friend of mine once complained to me about how I was always complaining about political messages in movies–often messages that he didn’t see or didn’t think were an important part of the movie. What difference did it make if moviemakers were trying to promote liberal viewpoints? Later, we watched some Grisham movie and he said to me that if corporations really behaved the way they did in the movie, it was a powerful case for regulation. I think I managed to refrain from issuing a new complaint. Anyway, James Bowman has an excellent column on the liberal denial that Million Dollar Baby has any political content.