Changeling R
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DVD Details
- Rated: R
- Run Time: 2 hours, 22 minutes
- Video: Color
- Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
- Released: February 17, 2009
- Originally Released: 2008
- Label: Universal Studios
Performers, Cast and Crew:
Starring | Angelina Jolie & John Malkovich | |
Performer: | Jeffrey Donovan, Colm Feore, Jason Butler Harner, Amy Ryan & Michael Kelly | |
Directed by | Clint Eastwood | |
Edited by | Joel Cox | |
Composition by | Clint Eastwood | |
Produced by | Clint Eastwood, Brian Grazer, Ron Howard & Robert Lorenz | |
Director of Photography: | Tom Stern | |
Executive Production by | Tim Moore |
Entertainment Reviews:
Rating: 3.5/5 --
There are moments when it seems as if it wants to be an inspirational story about a person who refuses to be beaten by a corrupt system -- but it doesn't, in the end, settle for the uplifting narrative.
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The Age (Australia)
4 stars out of 4 -- Clint Eastwood strikes again with another masterpiece....Jolie does some of her best work as the quiet but strong mother constantly on the brink of collapse without going over the edge...
Premiere
5 stars out of 5 -- At the centre is a brilliant performance by Angelina Jolie....Eastwood sets this intimate performance against a big, bold backdrop that might be his most ambitious yet...
Empire
Ultimately all of Eastwood's genre-blending comes up with nothing more than a hollow highbrow message movie that lacks all the blood and verve of its lowbrow inspirations.
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Esquire Magazine
Changeling fails because, despite its awful subject matter, it isn't very moving. Eastwood is too classical, too restrained a director to get inside his characters; they feel like well-costumed showroom dummies.
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Daily Telegraph (UK)
Rating: 3/5 --
What a bold, virile, operatic piece of film-making from this 78-year-old director. He is now well into a remarkable late period, and I sense we ain't seen nothing yet.
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Guardian
Rating: 1/5 --
Changeling is such a dead weight of poor, blandly prestigious Hollywood genre cinema
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Patrick Nabarro
Product Description:
At first, Clint Eastwood's CHANGELING could appear to be following too closely in the footsteps of his earlier Oscar winner, MYSTIC RIVER, since both films center on a missing child. But while his previous film was based on a Dennis Lehane novel, CHANGELING carries a particular weight because it is based on a true story, and one that isn't largely known. Angelina Jolie stars as Christine Collins, a single mother working in 1928 Los Angeles when her son goes missing. A boy is returned to her months later by the police, but she is shocked and disheartened when she realizes that the boy isn't her son. Joined by a crusading pastor (John Malkovich), Christine battles for justice against the corrupt L.A.P.D. while she continues to search for her child. Eventually her fight against the cops lands her in a mental hospital, where she is surrounded by others with a similar plight.
At times, CHANGELING is incredibly difficult to watch. Jolie gives an authentic, anguished performance, and the on-screen tragedy is quite disturbing, largely because of its basis in reality. But Eastwood has crafted another Oscar-worthy film that is certainly worth sitting through, even if a tissue or two is required. Screenwriter J. Michael Straczynski had been best known for his work in science fiction (BABYLON FIVE) and graphic novels, but he makes an adept transition to feature drama with this film. Its unusual focus--on the victim and her struggle for justice, rather than on the criminal and the crime--brings further depth to the film. As always, Amy Ryan (an Oscar nominee for GONE BABY GONE) perfectly morphs into her role (this time as a prostitute imprisoned in the mental hospital), and the film's many child actors are compelling to watch.
At times, CHANGELING is incredibly difficult to watch. Jolie gives an authentic, anguished performance, and the on-screen tragedy is quite disturbing, largely because of its basis in reality. But Eastwood has crafted another Oscar-worthy film that is certainly worth sitting through, even if a tissue or two is required. Screenwriter J. Michael Straczynski had been best known for his work in science fiction (BABYLON FIVE) and graphic novels, but he makes an adept transition to feature drama with this film. Its unusual focus--on the victim and her struggle for justice, rather than on the criminal and the crime--brings further depth to the film. As always, Amy Ryan (an Oscar nominee for GONE BABY GONE) perfectly morphs into her role (this time as a prostitute imprisoned in the mental hospital), and the film's many child actors are compelling to watch.
Keywords:
Thriller
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True Story
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Injustice
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Corruption
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Scandal
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Historical
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Theatrical Release
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Los Angeles, California
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Parents
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1920s
Product Info
- Sales Rank: 32,955
- UPC: 025195016902
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