On the same night as the murder, it was Dave’s (Tim Robbins) hard luck to be the last person to see Katie alive at the local bar. The Savage Brothers are the local thugs that help Jimmy scour the neighborhood for the killer, as the locals are distrustful of the police and talk more freely to their own kind.
But old friendship or not, Jimmy warns that he better get the killer first or he will–an ode to sweet revenge. While Sean is all cop, he nevertheless has patience for his old pal even though he realizes they are operating on opposite sides of the fence. Jimmy has done a two year prison stretch 16 years ago and the guy with a large tattoo of cross going down the back of his neck now operates a convenience store in the neighborhood, though outwardly legit he remains a shady character. When Jimmy faces Sean again after not seeing him for several years, the two once again become haunted by their bitter childhood memories. Jimmy is now married to the supportive Annabeth (Laura Linney) and has two young daughters with her.
The grief-stricken Jimmy loved his oldest daughter Katie, from his saintly deceased first wife, more than anything else in the world. In the book Whitey is a white character, which should explain his first name.
Sean Devine (Kevin Bacon) is the investigating homicide detective from the Massachusetts State Police along with his black sergeant partner Whitey Powers (Laurence Fishburne). Jimmy Markum’s (Sean Penn) flighty 19-year-old daughter Katie (Rossum) is found brutally murdered in the nearby state park. They are suddenly reunited by a murder some 25 years later when they are all approaching their forties. The three boys can’t face each other after that traumatic incident and though remaining in the neighborhood lose touch. The boys were carving their names in fresh sidewalk cement after playing street hockey, before the men took Dave away in their car. It tells the tale about three adolescents in the summer of 1975, Dave Boyle, Jimmy Markum and Sean Devine, who all become scarred for life when Dave is abducted and molested for four days before escaping from two men posing as cops. Mystic River is set in the close-knit Irish-Catholic working-class section of South Boston’s triple-decker wood-frame houses (the film was shot at that location and that added greatly to the realistic mood). It’s a complex story that is an unraveling of a mystery that goes back several generations where all the characters are intertwined through family or neighborhood or criminal activities. Confidential’s Oscar winning screenwriter Brian Helgeland. “A lot more effective than most similar cop thrillers that go only for the conventional bang-bang scenarios.”Ĭlint Eastwood’s latest is a deliberate leisurely paced psychological crime thriller based on the best-selling novel by Dennis Lehane. (director: Clint Eastwood screenwriters: from the novel by Dennis Lehane/Brian Helgeland cinematographer: Tom Stern editor: Joel Cox music: Clint Eastwood cast: Sean Penn (Jimmy), Tim Robbins (Dave), Kevin Bacon (Sean), Laurence Fishburne (Whitey), Marcia Gay Harden (Celeste Boyle), Kevin Chapman (Val Savage), Laura Linney (Annabeth Markum), Adam Nelson (Nick Savage), Tom Guiry (Brendan Harris), Emmy Rossum (Katie), Spencer Treat Clark (Silent Ray) Runtime: 137 MPAA Rating: R producers: Robert Lorenz/Judie Hoyt/Bruce Berman Warner Bros.
0 kommentar(er)
