MYSTIC RIVER
Year: 2003
USA & UK: Warner Bros
Cast: Sean Penn, Tim Robbins, Kevin Bacon, Laurence Fishburne, Marcia Gay Harden, Laura Linney, Kevin Chapman, Adam Nelson, Emmy Rossum, Spencer Treat Clark, Cameron Bowen, Matty Blake, Andrew Blesser, Douglass Bowen Flynn, Cayden Boyd, Nat Boyle, Charley Broderick, Ken Cheeseman, John Doman, Brad R Douglas, Celine du Tertre, Shawn Fitzgibbon, Ari Graynor, Tom Guiry, Jason Kelly, Tom Kemp, Lance Norris, Ed O'Keefe, Connor Paolo, John Pungitore, Zabeth Russell, Joe Stapleton, Martin Stephen O'Neil, Anthony Taurasi, Jonathan Togo, Brian Van Kay, Robert Wahlberg, Jillian Wheeler, Kris Williams, Susan Willis, Scott Winters
Director: Clint Eastwood
Country: USA
USA & UK: 137 mins
USA Rated: R for language and violence
UK Certificate: 15 contains violence and strong language
USA Release Date: 8 October 2003 (Limited Release)
UK Release Date: 15 October 2003
Synopsis
When they were kids growing up together in a rough section of Boston, Jimmy Markum (Sean Penn) , Dave Boyle (Tim Robbins) and Sean Devine (Kevin Bacon) spent their days playing stickball on the street, the way most boys did in their blue-collar neighborhood of East Buckingham. Nothing much ever happened in their neighborhood. That is, until Dave was forced to take a ride that would change all of their lives forever.
Twenty-five years later the three find themselves thrust back together by another life-altering event - the murder of Jimmy's 19 year-old daughter. Now a cop, Sean is assigned to the case and he and his partner, Whitey (Laurence Fishburne), are charged with unraveling the seemingly senseless crime. They must also stay one step ahead of Jimmy, a man driven by an all consuming rage to find his daughter's killer.
Connected to the crime by a series of circumstances, Dave is forced to confront the demons of his own past. Demons that threaten to destroy his marriage and any hope he may have for a future. As the investigation tightens around these three friends, an ominous story unfolds that revolves around friendship, family and innocence lost too soon.