This article was written by Eoin O’Faolain.
Continuing in our look back on the last decade, Screenhead examines the major movie events of the year 2003.
“As a director, Clint Eastwood was always uneven. When he made a critically acclaimed movie like Bird, they wouldn’t make money. When he made a money-maker, it was usually somewhere between dull and awful (Space Cowboys). And up until 2003 he had mostly made mediocre thrillers like True Crime and Blood Work. But all that ended with the release of Mystic River, an adaptation of the Dennis Lehane novel in which the lives of three boys in Boston are disrupted by a child molester, and how that incident complicates a murder when the three become grown men.
The film, although somewhat over-rated, was a nice balance between murder mystery and exploration of a typical working-class neighbourhood, elevated by the two excellent lead performances of Sean Penn (as the gangster Jimmy whose daughter is murdered) and Tim Robbins (the molested boy who never quite recovered, and becomes Suspect #1). The film was praised, was a box-office success, and also earned Oscars for both Penn and Roberts (who is now the tallest actor to win an Oscar!).”
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