Heartbreaking tale

Rating: 10/10 (15 April 2004)

Clint Eastwood serves up my favorite film of 2003. Heartbreaking and full of stunning performances.
Sean Penn and Tim Robbins are particularly amazing. Hollywood has given up on making classic human "dramas" and this film draws me back to a time when more films like this one were made.
Eastwood's use of classic themes mixed into a story of the damage caused by the abuse of a child is massive and at once groundbreaking and an ode to the types of important films I wished American audiences could be treated to more often. Real stories about real people rather than the cartoon characters that film our screens weekly.