CHANGELING (2008)

 

Directed by: Clint Eastwood

Screenplay by: J. Michael Straczynski

Starring: Angelina Jolie, John Malkovich, Jeffrey Donovan, Michael Kelly, Colm Feore, Jason Butler Harner, Eddie Alderson, Wendy Worthington, Riki Lindhome, Hope Shapiro, Amy Ryan, Geoff Pierson, Denis O'Hare, Frank Wood, Peter Gerety, Reed Birney, Gattlin Griffith, Dale Dickey, Jim Cantafio, Devon Gearhart

142 minutes

(R - strong language, adult themes, adult situations, some violent and disturbing content)

PLOT:

In 1928, Los Angeles, single mother Christine Collins returns from work to find her nine-year-old son Walter gone and calls the L.A.P.D. to initiate a search. Five months later, a boy is found in Illinois who fits the description, and he says he's her son. To fanfare and photos, the L.A.P.D. reunite mother and son, but she insists he's not her son. The cops dismiss her as either a liar or hysterical. When she joins a minister in his public criticism of the police, they in turn use government power to intimidate and silence her. Meanwhile, an officer goes to a dilapidated ranch to find a Canadian lad who's without legal status; the youth tells a grisly tale. There's redress for murder; is there redress for abuse of power?

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