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Mystic River
(2003)
We bury our sins, we wash them clean.
Director: Clint Eastwood, rated R for language,
violence
  Starring:
Sean Penn, Tim Robbins, Kevin Bacon, Laurence Fishburne, Marcia
Gay Harden, Laura Linney, Emmy Rossum
DML Rating:
★★★★★★★★☆☆
- great
"Sometimes I think, I think
all three of us got in that car..." -
Sean Devine
Why watch this? This
is perhaps Clint Eastwood's finest directorial effort.
Plot Summary:
This film's catalyst is a single event in 1975 Boston. Three
boys are playing street hockey when two men kidnap one of them,
David... and abuse him over four days. Twenty-five years later,
the three still live in the same neighborhood, and David just
seems to be a bit odd, understandably. When Jimmy's daughter is
murdered, a haunting spiral begins that ends in brutal revenge
and mistaken judgment.
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Dad's Preview:
This intense crime drama explores the theme that
sometimes victims of horrible crimes
cannot, or are not permitted to, find an escape from the dirt it covers them
with. Right or wrong, it follows you. Clint Eastwood, again, directs
a deep, gut-wrenching movie that makes the audience contemplate
the outcome. This film is heavy, as are the superb
performances by Penn and Robbins, who both won Oscars, and Kevin
Bacon. |
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Village Roadshow
Pictures, Malpaso Prod.,
NPV Ent.;
Warner Bros. Pictures
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