| Edition |
Widescreen edition. |
| Description |
1 videodisc (138 minutes) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. |
| Note |
Originally released as a motion picture in 2003. |
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Based on the novel by Dennis Lehane. |
| Credits |
Director of photography, Tom Stern ; edited by, Joel Cox ; original music, Clint Eastwood ; costume designer, Deborah Hopper ; production designer, Henry Bumstead ; visual effects supervisor, Mark Freund. |
| Cast |
Sean Penn, Tim Robbins, Kevin Bacon, Laurence Fishburne, Marcia Gay Harden, Laura Linney, Kevin Chapman, Adam Nelson, Tom Guiry. |
| Audience |
MPAA rating: R; for language and violence. |
| Summary |
Clint Eastwood's sombre masterpiece, from a novel by Dennis Lehane (Brian Helgeland did the adaptation), is about a working-class Catholic community in Boston held in thrall by an old crime. Back in the seventies, one of three eleven-year-old boys who were close friends was taken away by two men pretending to be cops and sexually assaulted for days before he finally escaped. But it turns out that Dave (Tim Robbins) never escaped at all. Twenty-five years later he is still shrouded in dreams and terror, and his two friends, Sean (Kevin Bacon), a homicide detective, and Jimmy (Sean Penn), an ex-con who runs a corner grocery, still feel the shame of not helping him. When Jimmy's nineteen-year-old daughter is murdered, the three are uneasily brought back together again. The movie's feeling for the neighborhood milieu is so convincing because there's no distinction between background and foreground-everything we see (faces, living rooms, back yards, weather, battered old cars) is dramatically relevant. Eastwood directs in a gray, end-of-day light and with a minimum of camera rhetoric; he lets the script and the actors do the work. Kevin Bacon tightens his facial muscles into a mask; Tim Robbins looks puffy and frightened; and Sean Penn does a few semi-psychotic soliloquies in which he takes off into the stratosphere, joining Marlon Brando as one of the great tragic actors of the screen. With Marcia Gay Harden and Laura Linney, both in devastating form. |
| System Details |
DVD, region 1, widescreen (2.40:1) presentation; Dolby Digital 5.1 surround. |
| Language |
English or dubbed French dialogue with optional English, French or Spanish subtitles; closed-captioned. |
| Note |
GMD: videorecording. |
| Subject |
Lehane, Dennis -- Film adaptations.
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Murder -- Investigation -- Massachusetts -- Boston -- Drama.
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Friendship -- Massachusetts -- Boston -- Drama.
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Detective and mystery plays -- Massachusetts -- Boston.
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| Genre/Form |
Video recordings for the hearing impaired.
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Feature films.
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| Added Author |
Eastwood, Clint, 1930-
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Hoyt, Judie.
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Lorenz, Robert.
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Helgeland, Brian.
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Penn, Sean, 1960-
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Robbins, Tim, 1958-
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Bacon, Kevin, 1958-
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Fishburne, Laurence, III, 1961-
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Harden, Marcia Gay.
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Linney, Laura.
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Chapman, Kevin.
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Nelson, Adam.
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Guiry, Thomas, 1981-
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Stern, Tom.
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Cox, Joel.
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Lehane, Dennis.
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Warner Home Video (Firm)
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| ISBN |
0790780372 |
| Standard No. |
085392772124 |
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085393324322 |
| Music No. |
27721 Warner Home Video |
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33243 Warner Home Video |
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