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Mystic River

Cast

Sean Penn, Tim Robbins, Kevin Bacon, Laurence Fishburne View All


Crew

Clint Eastwood (Director), Brian Helgeland (Screenplay) View All

Release: Oct. 7th, 2003
Runtime: 2 hours, 18 minutes
The lives of three men who were childhood friends are shattered when one of them has a family tragedy.
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3 The machometer in mystic river
Is it just me or was the movie trying to make a statement about weak people vs strong people in society and how certain traumatic situations bring out their natural strength or lack thereof rather tha...

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dadgumblah
But in this movie, it's Penn's performance that really anchors this movie for me.
Iroquois
Despite his own Oscar win, I find Sean Penn to be the weak link in the lead trio - as the murder victim's father, he does get a fair bit to work with but his acting comes across as fairly unimpressive for most of the time, especially his reaction to the sight of his daughter's corpse that leads to a....
Jack1
During the scene where Sean Penn's character steps into the morgue where his daughter Katie (Emmy Rossum) is lying on the slate dead, and when he is emotionally promising revenge, Rossum burst into tears, saying that "the scene was so powerful and moving and Sean Penn was so amazing".
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