Mystic River [2003]
Director: Clint Eastwood
Actor: Sean Bean, Tim Robbins, Kevin Bacon, Laurence Fishburne, Marcia Gay Harden, Laura Linney
This film is a brilliantly acted out drama recieving solid acting from all actors involved. Special mention goes out to Sean Penn and to a limited degree Tim Robbins, who both are phenomenal in the film. We see Kevin Bacon is a good guy role, as well as a heavier Lawrence Fishburne in a role which is not Morpheus aspired at all. It’s good to see how didn’t get type-cast right after the Matrix Trilogy.
Three neighbourhood friends grow apart to become entirely different men the day that one of them is taken by people impersonating police officers and is raped for several days before managing to escape.
Sean Penn, a former hijacker and strong-man who now runs a local family supermarket finds his oldest daughter dead by an unknown assailant. Kevin Bacon, now a federal agent, and his partner Lawrence Fishburne are charged with the investigation, while it seems to point in the direction of Tim Robbins, who plays Dave, a not-so-intelligent guy, and the one who was taken when they were younger, leaving him deeply confused.
I recommend this to everyone, since it has a very broad appeal, I think.
