DAVID O. RUSSELL, Golden Globe nominee as best Director for “The Fighter” said to HFPA journalists: “That’s what the story was to me, a bleach-blonde mother with seven bleach-blonde sisters training two boxing brothers, Micky and Dicky; they’re like this Greek chorus. And here comes a tough bitch bartender girlfriend who says to Micky that he’s not getting served, and now the family reacts like a gang. That’s the movie.”