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Childhood friends Jimmy Markum, Sean Devine and Dave Boyle reunite following the death of Jimmy's oldest daughter, Katie. Sean's a police detective on the case, gathering difficult and disturbing evidence; he's also tasked with handling Jimmy's rage and need for retribution.
Directed by Clint Eastwood, the mysterious drama Mystic River is based on the novel by Dennis Lehane and adapted by screenwriter Brian Helgeland. Set in an Irish neighborhood in Boston, Jimmy, Sean, and Dave are three childhood friends who are reunited after a brutal murder takes place. Reformed convict Jimmy Markum (Sean Penn) and his devoted wife Annabeth (Laura Linney) find out that their teenage daughter Katie (Emmy Rossum) has been beaten and killed. Jimmy's old friend Sean Devine (Kevin Bacon) is the homicide detective assigned to the case, along with partner Whitey Powers (Laurence Fishburne). Jimmy also...
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gets his relatives, the Savage brothers (Adam Nelson and Robert Wahlberg), to conduct an investigation of their own. Jimmy and Sean both start to suspect their old pal, Dave Boyle (Tim Robbins), who lives a quiet life with his wife Celeste (Marcia Gay Harden) but harbors some disturbing secrets. Clint Eastwood won a Golden Coach for Mystic River at the 2003 Cannes Film Festival.
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Drie jeugdvrienden, Jimmy Markum (Penn), Sean Devine (Bacon) en Dave Boyle (Robbins), worden na jaren weer herenigd door de moord op Jimmy's oudste dochter. Sean is rechercheur geworden en onderzoekt de zaak. Ex-crimineel Jimmy zint ondertussen op wraak, terwijl de labiele Dave nog altijd worstelt met een trauma uit het verleden. Door deze omstandigheden wordt de onderlinge band van de drie op de proef gesteld, en oude wonden worden opengereten...
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A month or so back we told you that Sandra Bullock was in talks to play Clint Eastwood 's daughter in the baseball drama Trouble with the Curve. Apparently those talks weren't satisfactory, because now Twitch says that Bullock won't be appearing in the film after all. Eastwood stars in Trouble as an aging baseball scout whose eyesight has begun to go bad on him. He decides to take one last trip to check out a promising pitcher before his peepers become totally useless. Bullock would have played his daughter, who accompanies him on the trip. Based on a script by Randy Brown, Trouble with the Curve also marks the directorial debut of Robert Lorenz, Eastwood's business partner and Ad on previous films such as Million Dollar Baby and Mystic River . Trouble isn't targeted to hit theaters until 2013, so they've still got plenty of time to find a replacement. Twitch
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