Gran Torino (2008)

Retired auto worker and Korean War vet Walt Kowalski (Clint Eastwood) fills emptiness in his life with beer and home repair, despising the many Asian, Latino and black families in his neighborhood. Walt becomes a reluctant hero when he stands up to the gangbangers who tried to force an Asian teen to steel Walt's treasured car. An unlikely friendship develops between Walt and the teen, as he learns he has more in common with his neighbors than he thought.

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A racist Korean War veteran living in a crime-ridden Detroit neighborhood is forced to confront his own lingering prejudice when a troubled Hmong teen from his neighborhood attempts to steal his prized Gran Torino. Decades after the Korean War has ended, ageing veteran Walt Kowalski (Clint Eastwood) is still haunted by the horrors he witnessed on the battlefield. The two objects that matter most to Kowalski in life are the classic Gran Torino that represents his happier days working in a Ford assembly plant, and the M-1 rifle that saved his life countless times during combat. When Kowalski's teenage neighbor (Bee...
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Vang) attempts to steal his Gran Torino as part of a gang initiation rite, the old man manages to catch the aspiring thief at the business end of his well-maintained semi-automatic rifle. Later, due to the pride of the Asian group, the boy is forced to return to Kowalski's house and perform an act of penance. Despite the fact that Kowalski wants nothing to do with the young troublemaker, he realizes that the quickest way out of the situation is to simply cooperate. In an effort to set the teen on the right path in life and toughen him up, the reluctant vet sets him up with an old crony who now works in construction. In the process, Kowalski discovers that the only way to lay his many painful memories to rest is to finally face his own blinding prejudice head-on.
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Walt Kowalski (Clint Eastwood), is een knorrige oorlogsveteraan en oud fabriekswerker die net zijn vrouw heeft verloren en geen goed contact heeft met zijn zoons. Ook zijn buren ziet hij amper. Ooit was het nog een goede buurt, maar nu wonen er voornamelijk Aziatische Hmong-immigranten om hem heen. En daar moet Walt helemaal niks van hebben. Door zijn ervaringen in de oorlog in Korea heeft hij een hekel aan Aziaten, maar eigenlijk aan zo'n beetje alle culturen. Hij wil het liefst met rust gelaten worden, door iedereen. Totdat op een nacht zijn prachtige auto, een Gran Torino, bijna wordt gestolen. De dader is zij...
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n buurjongetje die dit deed onder druk van een lokale bende. Dit zet een serie gebeurtenissen in gang die het leven van Walt én zijn buren voorgoed zal veranderen...
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