Release Date : Oct 8, 2003 Wide
Genre Movie :Mystery & Suspense,Drama
Actors :Sean Penn,Kevin Bacon,Tim Robbins,Laurence Fishburne,Marcia Gay Harden,Laura Linney,Kevin Chapman,Tom Guiry,Emmy Rossum,Spencer Treat Clark,Andrew Mackin,Adam Nelson,Robert Wahlberg,Jenny O'Hara,Cayden Boyd,Ken Cheeseman,Will Lyman,Michael McGovern,Bill Richards,Patrick SheaMpaa Rating : R
Plot Story : Directed by Clint Eastwood, the mysterious drama Mystic River is based on the novel by Dennis Lehane and adapted by screenwriter Brian Helgeland. Set in an Irish neighborhood in Boston, Jimmy, Sean, and Dave are three childhood friends who are reunited after a brutal murder takes place. Reformed convict Jimmy Markum (Sean Penn) and his devoted wife Annabeth (Laura Linney) find out that their teenage daughter Katie (Emmy Rossum) has been beaten and killed. Jimmy's old friend Sean Devine (Kevin Bacon) is the homicide detective assigned to the case, along with partner Whitey Powers (Laurence Fishburne). Jimmy also gets his relatives, the Savage brothers (Adam Nelson and Robert Wahlberg), to conduct an investigation of their own. Jimmy and Sean both start to suspect their old pal, Dave Boyle (Tim Robbins), who lives a quiet life with his wife Celeste (Marcia Gay Harden) but harbors some disturbing secrets. Clint Eastwood won a Golden Coach for Mystic River at the 2003 Cannes Film Festival. ~ Andrea LeVasseur, Rovi
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TagLine Mystic River We bury our sins, we wash them clean.Visitor Ranting and Critics For Mystic River
Critics Ranting For Mystic River : 7.7Critics Percentage For Mystic River : 87 %
User Ranting Movie Mystic River : 3.7
User Count Like for Mystic River : 198,964
Review For Movie Mystic River
It is in many ways Eastwood's tightest movie for some time, and certainly his darkest since Unforgiven; indeed, the ending offers as corrosive an assessment of the limits of American justice as anything in his career.Geoff Andrew-Time Out
Sean Penn is so frighteningly good in this movie that he outdoes even the best of his earlier work.
Peter Rainer-New York Magazine
Works as a straight-up detective story, and the acting is often breathtaking.
Bill Muller-Arizona Republic
Too depressing to fill audiences with delight, but it does seem to validate questionable attitudes, especially an indifference to the suffering of innocent people and a willingness to shoot first and ask questions later.
Jonathan Rosenbaum-Chicago Reader
Solid, rarely showy performances, meticulously recreated detective work and moments of pure unadulterated grief accent this whodunit, a movie that will have those who haven't read the book fooled for much of its length.
Roger Moore-Orlando Sentinel
Contains so many layers that you'll want to see it more than once. It's one for the memory books.
Philip Wuntch-Dallas Morning News
The entire cast did a phenomenal job, resisting the urge to overact too much, which is what you get for a film like this.
Kevin Carr-7M Pictures
Powerful performances in graphic story. Only 16+.
Nell Minow-Common Sense Media
American drama doesn't get any more meaty and muscular than this.
Cole Smithey-ColeSmithey.com
To say this is well-acted would be an understatement punishable by law; the acting talent during the film is just magnificent to watch as we see a great cast of great actors...
Felix Vasquez Jr.-Cinema Crazed
The performances are uniformly superb.
Rob Gonsalves-eFilmCritic.com
Good, occasionally powerful noir that's been overhyped.
Christopher Smith-Bangor Daily News (Maine)
Mystic falters occasionally, but I respect its effort and I'm happy to see Mr. Eastwood growing as a director.
Joe Lozito-Big Picture Big Sound
While not quite the equal of the novel, it's more complex, emotionally-charged and better acted than the average Hollywood thriller.
Alan Morrison-Empire Magazine
With characters that don't belong in the film and resolutions that seem mere fantasy, Mystic River never surpasses adequacy.
Wesley Lovell-Cinema Sight
A sprawling story that benefits from Eastwood's stripped-down approach. There are no jive talking Tarantino exchanges here, and no crowd-pleasing pyrotechnics.
KJ Doughton-Film Threat
This is one of the finer dramas to come down the pike in some time.
Bill Clark-FromTheBalcony
The film births wonderful performances from all three lead actors, as well as Marcia Gay Harden, who's palpable in preternatural ways, Thomas Guiry as the boy in love with Jimmy's daughter, and virtually everyone else with a strip of film time.
Jon Lap-Apollo Guide
It's a stately, handsome-looking studio drama that, for me, never really became emotionally or intellectually involving.
Ethan Alter-NYC Film Critic
... frustratingly humorless, harsh, and hollow, lacking the cohesiveness, color and convincing characterization of Eastwood's masterpiece Unforgiven.
Jeffrey Overstreet-Looking Closer
Penn and Robbins, especially, are absolutely riveting in this haunting tale of lives lost.
Steve Crum-Kansas City Kansan
This is an involving movie that held my interest for all but the last five of its 137-minute running time, despite an ending that seems to tolerate murder and vigilante justice.
Tony Medley-tonymedley.com
Methodical, riveting and emotionally charged.
Mark Sells-Oregon Herald
A fine movie but not the masterpiece you've heard.
Mark Robison-Reno Gazette-Journal
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