impressively made with many profound themes

Rating: Null/10 (2 May 2020)

Jolie gives an impassioned and intensely vulnerable performance as a single mother in late 1920s Los Angeles who becomes grief-stricken when her nine-year-old son vanishes. It's not until several months pass when the publicity-seeking LAPD "reunites" her with a missing child fitting the description. Publicly proclaiming the child not to be hers, she gets caught up in an intense melee with the less than ideal police who are willing to go to extreme measures to silence her. A riveting real-life story that encompasses corruption, abuse of power, mental coercion, criminal culpability, but most of all hope. A rare instance where you almost yearn for a conventional finale, but the biographical source material leaves a few subplots open-ended, and although some obvious anachronisms are thrown in for enjoyment of the viewer, it's still a praiseworthy showing--directed, produced, and scored by Clint Eastwood. ***