We bury our sins, we wash them clean.

Rating: 9/10 (7 May 2005)

In the 1970's one day three friends called Jimmy,Sean and Dave are in the street playing Hockey. They lose a ball down a drain and get bored. Seeeing cement drying, and decide to carve their names in it. Sean and Jimmy carve theirs but just as Dave is about to do his, a car appears with two cops. They tell them off and then ask where they live. Dave lives elsewhere, so the cops go to take him home to tell his Mom what hes been doing. Three days later Dave is found in the woods, "damaged goods". From that moment on, all three of their lives are changed. So begins one of the best movies of the 21st Century. A movie that is not afraid to deal with paedophilia and it's effects, this benefits from some brilliant acting from Sean Penn (Jimmy,an ex-con out of prison who's daughter is killed, which sparks off the events that occur 25 years after that ill-fated ride) and Tim Robbins (Dave, the poor bastard who is taken by two guys and years later still suffers from the consequences). I am not surprised of the recognition Clint is getting for this movie, along with "The Million Dollar Baby". My only question, Clint's done paedophilia and euthanasia, what's next, abortion?