Emotional drama about a mother's love.

Rating: 8/10 (25 February 2009)

Another Clint Eastwood effort snubbed. This time directing the ever beautiful Angelina Jolie in a role where her acting abilities step to the forefront. It is 1928, and Los Angeles single mother Christine Collins(Jolie)leaves to go to work and returns home to find that her son Walter(Gattlin Griffin)has vanished without a trace. Her efforts are relentless, while the Los Angeles Police Department appears to be lacking in eagerness to continue their search for the boy. After five months, a little boy is returned to her...but it is not her son. She seems to be going up against the whole police department, but actually it is just Capt. J.J. Jones(Jeffrey Donovan)trying to make Miss Collins look delusional. Public opinion and the press get involved ending in exposing the world of corruption in which the LAPD let itself wallow in.
The time period is depicted well. The story is touching and memorable. Photography and editing seems flawless. Also in the cast: John Malkovich, Jan Devereaux, Frank Wood and Colm Feore.