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But winning for a role like this or godfather is kinda cool because 100 years from now if someone looks up to see who won that year and goes on to watch the movie without any preconceived notions about sean penn or anyone who made the movie is, just from story point of view his role is badass and mo...

Davey (Robbins) deals with childhood abuse, Jimmy (Penn) deals with his daughters murder, and Sean (Bacon) deals with his wife leaving him.

Each of the three main casting choices, Bacon, Sean Penn, and Tim Robbins, put their all into the roles, and watching them dodge bullets as they try to solve the mystery is a real treat, even if it's an unpleasant series of events.

But in this movie, it's Penn's performance that really anchors this movie for me.

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...

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".

Sean Penn finally won a Best Actor Oscar for his powerhouse performance and Tim Robbins' Dave earned a Supporting Actor statue.

While a lot of movies offer some form of this formula, Mystic does well with taking everyone on the same journey, unsure of the outcome until the very end.

The script makes you think, make connections, but by the end it comes full circle. It's marvelous.

The three old friends are Jimmy (Sean Penn) who's the father , Dave (Tim Robbins) who was kidnapped and sexually abused when he was young , and Sean (Kevin Bacon) who is the detective working on the homicide case.