Reviewed by Kathleen Amboy.  Viewed at the Riviera, Santa Barbara, CA.   The Fighter  is based on the real life story of two boxers, “Irish” Micky Ward (Mark Wahlberg) and his brother Dicky Eklund (Christian Bale), from Lowell, Massachusetts. Dicky, a former boxer and known as the “Pride of Lowell,”  had his fifteen minutes of fame in the one-time … Continue reading The Fighter (David O. Russell, 2010): USA