Mystic River
Short description
Three men who grew up together in a Boston neighborhood are pulled back into each other's lives by a murder. Jimmy Markum, Dave Boyle and Sean Devine shared a childhood that ended when Dave was taken away by strangers; the three drifted apart after that day. Years later, Jimmy's teenage daughter is found dead, and Sean, now a police detective, is assigned to the investigation while Jimmy, in his grief, pursues his own form of justice. Dave, still marked by what happened to him as a boy, becomes a focus of the inquiry.
Clint Eastwood directed the film, the twenty-fourth of the forty features he has directed in chronological order, following Blood Work and preceding Million Dollar Baby. Brian Helgeland wrote the screenplay, and Eastwood produced with Judie Hoyt and Robert Lorenz. Sean Penn plays Jimmy, Tim Robbins plays Dave, and Kevin Bacon plays Sean, with Laurence Fishburne, Marcia Gay Harden and Laura Linney in supporting roles. The credited cast numbers fifty-nine.
Made for about 25 million dollars, the film took in roughly 157 million dollars worldwide. It holds a critics' rating of 8.1 out of 10 from 203 reviews, higher than its audience scores of 7.9 on IMDb from 520,000 votes and 7.7 on TMDB from 7,697 votes.
What's left behind the scenes
- Dennis Lehane, the author of "Mystic River," received a cameo role in the film. He appears in the parade scene, waving from a convertible.
- The film Dave is watching on television is called "Vampires" (1998), starring James Woods and Sheryl Lee.
- Clint Eastwood provides the voice-over for the film's promotional trailer.
- Filming took 39 days.
- The film is based on Dennis Lehane's novel "Mystic River" (2001).
- Eli Wallach also received a cameo role in the film, playing the owner of a liquor store. Eli had not appeared in an Eastwood film since "The Good, the Bad and the Ugly" (1966).
- The surname of Jimmy and his family was changed from Marcus (the original source) to Marcum.
- In the beginning of the film, in the episode where young Dave is thrown into the back seat of a car, the person in the front turns around and flashes his ring – a priest's ring. The book contains no mention of this character being a priest. This moment was intentionally added to the film after the circumstances of the scandal involving the Archbishop of Boston became known. Its head, Bernard Law, was implicated in a case related to concealing cases of sexual harassment by priests.
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