Title: Mystic River

Rating: R

Starring: Sean Penn, Tim Robbins, Kevin Bacon, Laurence Fishburne, Marcia Gay Harden, Laura Linney

Year of Release: 2004

Screenwriter: Brian Helgeland

Director: Clint Eastwood

Running Time: 138 minutes

Studio: Warner Brothers

Back of the Box:
    Jimmy. Dave. Sean. Friends who grew up in working-class Boston, they drift apart after a terrible tragedy. Years later, brutal events reconnect them. Jimmy's 19-year-old daughter is coldly murdered. Dave is a suspect. And Sean, now a cop, scrambles to solve the crime before volatile Jimmy takes the law into his own hands.
    Working from Brian Helgeland's adaptation of Dennis Lehane's novel, director Clint Eastood shapes a masterwork, a brooding thriller built on family, friends and innocence lost. Sean Penn, Tim Robbins and Kevin Bacon play the pivotal threesome, joining Laurence Fishburne, Marcia Gay Harden and Laura Linney in one of the most powerful casts ever. The river has many depths. Let it wash over you.

Notes: This movie was nominated for the Best Picture Academy Award in 2003. Sean Penn (Best Actor) and Tim Robbins (Best Supporting Actor) took home the Oscar for this movie in the same year.
 
 

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