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Genres:
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Drama /
History /
Mystery /
Thriller
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Release:
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Director:
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Clint Eastwood
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Actors:
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Frank Wood,
Gattlin Griffith,
J.P. Bumstead,
Michelle Gunn,
Kerri Randles,
Ric Sarabia,
Jan Devereaux,
Erica Grant,
Antonia Bennett,
Morgan Eastwood,
Madison Hodges,
Devon Conti,
Angelina Jolie,
John Malkovich,
Colm Feore
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Duration:
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142 min.
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Rating:
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(8.1/10)93.5
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Plot Summary:
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Los Angeles, 1928. A unmarried mother returns from work to find her nine-year-old son gone. She calls the LAPD to initiate a search. Five months later, a boy is found in Illinois who fits the description; he says he's her son. To fuss and photos, the LAPD reunite and son, but she insists he's not her boy. The cops have her as either a liar or frantic. When she joins a minister resident in his public censure of the policemen, they in up-end use rule power to silence and intimidate her. Meanwhile, a cop goes to a decrepit ranch to light upon a Canadian youngster who's without legal status; the... demoiselle tells a grisly naval scuttlebutt. There's redress to murder; is there redress for abuse of power?
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Changeling
Claudia PuigPlaying the anguished mother of a missing child, Angelina Jolie is incarcerated in a mental hospital in a key dramatic sequence of Changeling. This stately-looking film, directed by Clint Eastwood and based on actual events, could also have been called Mom, Interrupted. It is, above all, a story about the unflagging determination of an ordinary woman, Christine Collins, played by Jolie, and her quest to find her 9-year-old son. But while her tenacity in the face of overwhelming odds is undeniably admirable, the way it plays out is not always compelling. The methodical storytelling leads to flat and even tedious stretches. Parts of the story, mirrored by Jolie's performance, are so calm they seem almost monotonous. The real-life story lends itself...
Jolie brilliant but subject matter too harrowing
This is apparently a true story but the crimes are so heinous I don't think the subject matter is suitable for the big screen. I certainly found this film quite disturbing. Is Clint Eastwood really so arrogant (or shallow?) that he thought he could recreate the tragedy of this story? The whole approach is so American too - the trial scenes at the end where the LAPD are brought to justice (small reward for the mother given the circumstances). Was this ending supposed to make us feel better?
Admittedly Jolie was brilliant but I wouldn't recommend this to anyone wanting to relax with a film. If you want to be upset why not just turn on the radio and listen to the news?
YES, ANG CAN ACT... SHE HAS AN OSCAR, DON'T YOU KNOW...
La Jolie is brilliant at kicking butt, no doubt about it. Yet it is easy to forget that behind the action stylings of Lara Croft, Wanted's Fox or loooong time ago (but unfortunately not forgotten) Gone In 40 Seconds hides a seriously talented actress. After all, Angelina did win an Academy Award for a brilliant performance in Girl, Interrupted.
There are shadows of just that film to be found in Changeling, of course. But the leading lady's powerful performance during an enforced stint in a Psychiatric Hospital is by no means the only strong point of this Clint Eastwood directed, true story gut wrencher.
Eastwood is a seasoned director, established and respected for the likes of Million Dollar Baby or the early Unforgiven. This then, is another big credit to him. The f...
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