It is in many ways Eastwood's tightest movie for some time, and certainly his darkest since Unforgiven; indeed, the ending offers as corrosive an assessment of the limits of American justice as anything in his career.
Mystic River
We bury our sins, we wash them clean.
2003 · 2h 18m · R
Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Directed by
Clint Eastwood
Overview
The lives of three men who were childhood friends are shattered when one of them suffers a family tragedy.
Director and cast
- Clint Eastwood Director
- Sean Penn as Jimmy Markum
- Tim Robbins as Dave Boyle
- Kevin Bacon as Sean Devine
- Laurence Fishburne as Whitey Powers
- Marcia Gay Harden as Celeste Boyle
- Laura Linney as Annabeth Markum
- Kevin Chapman as Val Savage
- Tom Guiry as Brendan Harris
- Emmy Rossum as Katie Markum
- Spencer Treat Clark as Silent Ray Harris
Critics on Rotten Tomatoes
Top critics, in their words
Sean Penn is so frighteningly good in this movie that he outdoes even the best of his earlier work.
Works as a straight-up detective story, and the acting is often breathtaking.
Too depressing to fill audiences with delight, but it does seem to validate questionable attitudes, especially an indifference to the suffering of innocent people and a willingness to shoot first and ask questions later.
Solid, rarely showy performances, meticulously recreated detective work and moments of pure unadulterated grief accent this whodunit, a movie that will have those who haven't read the book fooled for much of its length.
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