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Starring:
Sean Penn, Tim Robbins, Kevin Bacon, Laurence Fishburne, Marcia Gay Harden, Laura Linney, Adam Nelson, Emmy Rossum, Lance Norris, Kevin Chapman, Cameron Bowen, Cameron Bowen
Directed By:
Clint Eastwood
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Mystic River (2003)
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Movie Review by Justin 
May 24th, 2006
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Clint Eastwood shapes a Greek tragedy in modern day Boston. His story involves three friends whose lives are inexplicably interwoven by tragedy, first as children, then again as adults, when one of them loses a daughter in a brutal slaying. Penn, Robbins, and Bacon each give bravura performances -- and Eastwood gives them room to show off. Eastwood and scribe Brian Helgeland adorn the story with immense psychological weight, turning a police procedural into an elegy of the soul. It's ripe with deep human feeling -- and emotionally devastating. As director, Clint's approach is trusting -- he doesn't strangle the emotional resonance with Art. And the movie is physically beautiful too; the setting somehow creates a vast pool of forbidding brood. The movie is in the traditional Hollywood style, and it's just the right mode for this quiet and deliberate picture. The film's epilogue is subtly brilliant, more observant then we might have guessed, touching on the deeper, more frigid extremities of the themes. Laura Linney and Marcia Gay Harden turn in strongly suggestive performances too, as two wives whose instincts sharply contrast, and whose actions bring ironic finality to the moral crisis. Eastwood also composed the score, which could swell with sentimentality but merely works to support the fine acting. This one's a real American classic.
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