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Genres:
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Crime /
Drama
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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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William Hill,
Christopher Carley,
Brian Haley,
Geraldine Hughes,
Dreama Walker,
Bee Vang,
Ahney Her,
Brooke Chia Thao,
Chee Thao,
Choua Kue,
Xia Soua Chang,
Clint Eastwood,
Brian Howe,
John Carroll Lynch,
Scott Eastwood
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Duration:
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116 min.
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Rating:
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(8.4/10)168
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Plot Summary:
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Walt Kowalski is an iron-willed veteran living in a changing incredible, who is forced during his immigrant neighbors to confront his own long-held prejudices.
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Gran Torino
An embittered racist learns to respect his Hmong neighbours and finds redemption for his past sins during the Korean War in Clint Eastwood's comic drama, his thirtieth as director
Clint Eastwood is probably the only actor working today who could pull off the feat of playing a role as a foul-mouthed bigot taking on local hoods at the age of 78 without it seeming risible. "Did you ever come across someone every once in a while you shouldn't have fucked with?" he asks three young black men who are harassing a young woman in the street. "Well, that's me".
It's an entertaining line in a very entertaining film that cheerfully plays on the audience's memory of Dirty Harry , even as it undercuts and reconfigures that film's rightwing agenda.
Here, Eastwood plays Walt Kowal...
Gran Torino
Claudia PuigThough you can see his character's redemption coming a mile away, Clint Eastwood's Gran Torino is still well worth the ride. Eastwood plays a cantankerous and bigoted Korean War veteran and retired auto worker. He is equally nasty to the parish priest as he is to the immigrant family next door. He doesn't want to be bothered with any kind of niceties - not even to his longtime barber, who seems like the closest thing he has to a friend. He doesn't have much use for his children or grandchildren. Nor do they seem to feel much affection for him. The misanthropic and thoroughly un-PC Walt Kowalski is a facet of Dirty Harry, with a permanently etched scowl. He does hold a few things dear: his faithful Labrador retriever, Daisy, the memory ...
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