Clint Eastwood, the movie maker

Rating: 9/10 (1 March 2008)

Something tragic has happened in the past.Three boys, Sean Devine, Jimmy Markum and Dave Boyle played outside when a car pulled up and took one of the kids, Dave, into the car.He got locked inside a basement where he was kept by some pedophiles.About thirty years an other tragedy occurs.Jimmy's daughter Katie is murdered and Dave, now haunted by the childhood trauma, becomes the primary suspect.Clint Eastwood, the director of Mystic River (2003), also behind the original music.He has made a really fine movie that is based on the novel by Dennis Lehane.There is the touching plot alongside the murder mystery.All the right actors can be found from this movie.Sean Penn is Jimmy Markum.Tim Robbins is Dave Boyle.Kevin Bacon is Sean Devine.Those are the three main stars.Also fine performances are in the other parts as well.There's Laurence Fishburne (Sgt. Whitey Powers).There's Marcia Gay Harden (Celeste Boyle).There's Laura Linney (Annabeth Markum).There's Emmy Rossum (Katie Markum).There's Robert Wahlberg (Kevin Savage).There's also Eli Wallach (Mr.Loonie, Liquor Store Owner), Clint Eastwood's buddy remembered from The Good, the Bad and the Ugly (1966).So it's an amazing cast in which two of them won an Oscar (Sean Penn, Tim Robbins).This is a truly brilliant film and I success you watch it if you haven't done it yet.