The driver flashes a police badge and grills Jimmy and Sean about where they live before turning his attentions to the softer, shyer Dave. Playing in their neighbourhood, they stop to carve their names in wet cement, with Dave only getting his name half-finished before a car arrives. It's never going to be easy forgetting that line of letdowns, but Eastwood has made amends here, turning in a film with Oscar nominations (wins maybe) stamped all over it and delivering one of Sean Penn's best performances.īased on Dennis Lehane's bestseller, 'Mystic River' begins by showing how the childhoods of Boston friends Jimmy (Penn), Sean (Bacon) and Dave (Robbins) are destroyed in varying degrees at age 11. 'Absolute Power', 'Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil' and 'True Crime' all came and went before he hit rock bottom with last year's 'Blood Work', a whodunit so awful it worked better as a comedy. One adaptation of a doorstop thriller has followed another with less to admire in each - and all so dreary that you could forgive yourself a cry every time 'Unforgiven' came on TV. It hasn't been easy for Clint Eastwood fans the last few years. Directed by Clint Eastwood, starring Sean Penn, Kevin Bacon, Tim Robbins, Marcia Gay Harden, Laurence Fishburne and Laura Linney.
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