Mainstream corruption

Rating: 6/10 (18 January 2009)

It takes place in LA during 1928. A boy strangely disappears. After a couple of months, the police force finds him. But the mother is oppositional. It's not her son.
Then starts the struggle against police and asylum corruption and the mother is helped by two good guys, a reverend and a lawyer.
Director Clint Eastwood surely knows what is expected of him and does a little more than that. He lets a scene take its time, without loss of tempo. But Eastwood doesn't take any risks either and the same goes for John Malkovich and Angelina Jolie, who both can do better than this. Rather entertaining, but not something you think much about after leaving the cinema.