Clint Eastwood's mastery as a director, published in the last decade and a half with Unforgiven, Million Dollar Baby, Letters from Iwo Jima, and others continue to work with Changeling, from 2008, based on a shocking, but all too true story about child abduction and corruption of police in Los Angeles the 1920th Single mother Christine Collins (Angelina Jolie, excellent in a role with some limited parameters) you will find 9-year-old son, Walter, missing when she returned home from work one day. Files a report with the Los Angeles Police Department, an outfit that is wildly unpopular at the time (in his regular radio show, a crusading priest played by John Malkovich Decries the force as "violent and corrupt," and added that "our brutalizers are our protector "). When a child is about Walter matching description in Illinois five months later, the LAPD, his intention to salvage tattered reputation, is only too happy to say that he Collins' child is missing. Small things, that he is three centimeters shorter circumcised (Walter was not), and not to patterns with Walter Dentist, teachers and others, the police, especially the despicable Captain JJ Jones (Jeffrey Donovan), insist that the error Christine is not her. What follows is almost too nightmarish to think - unless it really happened. Unnerved by Collins' further claim that "Walter" is a fraud, they trot a doctor to the bogus ID, explain it unsuitable as a parent, and finally they have to a local psychopathic Ward. Through it all, Collins, assisted by the pastor and thousands of outraged Angelenos, refuses to sign a document which exempts the police for their serious mistakes. What Walter, it is only when the LAPD's apparently only honest Detective (Michael Kelly) the matters into his own hands, that the secret of the cruel fate of a child begins to dissolve. That would be a good place for the film to close on. Unfortunately, it is more than half an hour, with many false endings to add that nothing in the story and could just as well have been combined with a few sentences before the final credits. These errors aside (and it is important), Changeling is a powerful film, with a realistic period feel, a wonderful atmosphere and subdued color palette and a result of the understatement Eastwood. - Sam Graham
- Actors: Angelina Jolie, Colm Feore, Amy Ryan, Gattlin Griffith, Michelle Martin
- Directors: Clint Eastwood
- Writers: J. Michael Straczynski
- Producers: Clint Eastwood, Brian Grazer, Geyer Kosinski, James Whitaker, Robert Lorenz
- Format: AC-3, Color, Dolby, Dubbed, DVD-Video, Subtitled, Widescreen, NTSC
- Language: English
- Subtitles: English, French, Spanish
- Number of discs: 1
- Rating:
- Studio: Universal Studios
- DVD Release Date: February 17, 2009
- Run Time: 141 minutes
Clint Eastwood's mastery as a director, published in the last decade and a half with Unforgiven, Million Dollar Baby, Letters from Iwo Jima, and others continue to work with Changeling, from 2008, based on a shocking, but all too true story about child abduction and corruption of police in Los Angeles the 1920th Single mother Christine Collins (Angelina Jolie, excellent in a role with some limited parameters) you will find 9-year-old son, Walter, missing when she returned home from work one day. Files a report with the Los Angeles Police Department, an outfit that is wildly unpopular at the time (in his regular radio show, a crusading priest played by John Malkovich Decries the force as "violent and corrupt," and added that "our brutalizers are our protector "). When a child is about Walter matching description in Illinois five months later, the LAPD, his intention to salvage tattered reputation, is only too happy to say that he Collins' child is missing. Small things, that he is three centimeters shorter circumcised (Walter was not), and not to patterns with Walter Dentist, teachers and others, the police, especially the despicable Captain JJ Jones (Jeffrey Donovan), insist that the error Christine is not her. What follows is almost too nightmarish to think - unless it really happened. Unnerved by Collins' further claim that "Walter" is a fraud, they trot a doctor to the bogus ID, explain it unsuitable as a parent, and finally they have to a local psychopathic Ward. Through it all, Collins, assisted by the pastor and thousands of outraged Angelenos, refuses to sign a document which exempts the police for their serious mistakes. What Walter, it is only when the LAPD's apparently only honest Detective (Michael Kelly) the matters into his own hands, that the secret of the cruel fate of a child begins to dissolve. That would be a good place for the film to close on. Unfortunately, it is more than half an hour, with many false endings to add that nothing in the story and could just as well have been combined with a few sentences before the final credits. These errors aside (and it is important), Changeling is a powerful film, with a realistic period feel, a wonderful atmosphere and subdued color palette and a result of the understatement Eastwood. - Sam Graham
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