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Mystic River
File:Mystic-River-Poster.jpg
IMDB 8.0/10 (40,324 votes)
Directed byClint Eastwood
Written byDennis Lehane (novel)
Brian Helgeland
Produced byRobert Lorenz
Judie G. Hoyt
Clint Eastwood
StarringSean Penn
Tim Robbins
Kevin Bacon
Laurence Fishburne
Marcia Gay Harden
Laura Linney
CinematographyTom Stern
Edited byJoel Cox
Music byClint Eastwood
Distributed byWarner Brothers
Release dates
October 8, 2003
Running time
137 min.
LanguageEnglish

Mystic River is an American Academy Award winning film released in 2003, starring Sean Penn, Tim Robbins,Kevin Bacon, Laurence Fishburne, Marcia Gay Harden, Laura Linney and Emmy Rossum. The film was written by Brian Helgeland (based on the novel Mystic River by Dennis Lehane) and directed by Clint Eastwood.

The film opened to widespread critical acclaim. It was nominated for 6 Academy Awards: Best Picture, Best Director, Best Actor, Best Adapted Screenplay, Best Supporting Actor, and Best Supporting Actress. Sean Penn won Best Actor and Tim Robbins won Best Supporting Actor.

Plot

Template:Spoiler The plot of the film revolves around three kids named Jimmy, Dave, and Sean who were best friends and grew up together in one of Boston's working-class Irish districts. When they were all ten years old, and playing together in the street, one of them (Dave, played as an adult by Robbins) is kidnapped by pedophiles and kept for four days. Decades later, all three are adults, still living in Boston, and have drifted apart. Jimmy's (Sean Penn) 19 year old daughter is murdered, while suspicious circumstances swirl around Dave. The crime is investigated by Sean (Kevin Bacon), who has become a police detective.

The climax of the film comes when Jimmy and his friends get Dave drunk. When Dave leaves the bar to go throw up the men follow him out. Jimmy tells Dave that he will let him live if he confesses to killing his daughter; if he does not he will kill him right there and then. When Dave, who we find out was not in fact the killer, admits to the crime in an attempt to escape with his life, Jimmy stabs him in the stomach and shoots him in the face anyway.

We cut to the next morning with Jimmy drowning his sorrows in a bottle of whiskey, when Sean pulls his car up beside him and sits next to him. Sean asks Jimmy if he's seen Dave, because he's wanted for questioning in a murder. It turns out that this murder involved Dave discovering a pedophile abusing a kid in a car and killed him. Later at a parade Dave's wife Celeste franitcally trying to get the attention of her son Michael (played by Cayden Boyd). Michael is sad because his father is missing (he doesnt know that he's dead). Sean see's Jimmy points his finger, and pretends to have a gun and pulls the trigger. Does this mean that Sean will come after Jimmy for the murder of Dave. The movie ends with the close up of the three boy's name in the cement.

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Awards and nominations

Awards

Nominations

DVD release date

DVD was released on June 8, 2004 and 3 editions have been released:

  • Full Screen Edition
  • Widescreen Edition
  • 3-Disc Deluxe Edition

See also

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