Blood Work

Retired FBI profiler Terry McCaleb is living on his boat in San Diego while recovering from a heart transplant. A woman named Graciella Rivers approaches him with a troubling connection: the heart he received came from her sister, whose death was treated as a robbery but which she believes was murder. Against the advice of his cardiologist, McCaleb begins looking into the case, aided by his neighbor Buddy, and finds links to a killer he once pursued while still with the Bureau. The investigation draws him back into work his health may not allow.

Clint Eastwood directed and stars as McCaleb. The film is the twenty-third he directed, following Space Cowboys and preceding Mystic River, and he produced it with Judie Hoyt from a screenplay by Brian Helgeland. The cast includes Jeff Daniels, Anjelica Huston, Wanda De Jesus, Tina Lifford and Paul Rodríguez, with 37 credited performers and 60 credited crew members. It is based on a novel by Michael Connelly.

Made for a budget of 50 million dollars, Blood Work took in about 32 million dollars worldwide. On IMDb it holds a rating of 6.4 from 51,000 votes, and on TMDB 6.2 from 925 votes. A critics' score of 5.7 from 150 reviews places it below both audience figures.