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Gran Torino (Widescreen Edition) by Clint Eastwood
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DVD detailsActor: Brian Haley, Christopher Carley, Clint Eastwood, Geraldine Hughes Director: Clint Eastwood Brand: Warner Brothers DVD: Region Code 1 Audio: English (Unknown), Dolby Digital 5.1; English (Subtitled); French (Subtitled); Spanish (Subtitled); English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 5.1 Format: Color, DVD, NTSC, Subtitled, Widescreen Picture Format: 2.35:1 Running Time: 116 minutes DVD Release Date: 2009-06-09 Audience Rating: R (Restricted) Studio: Warner Home Video
DVD Reviews of Gran Torino (Widescreen Edition)DVD Review: What else can you say about Clint! Summary: 5 StarsFrom "Go ahead, make my day!" to "Get off my lawn!" this movie is classic Clint Eastwood.
DVD Review: dreary and depressing Summary: 3 StarsIt's hard to fault a man with such a distinguished portfolio of work as an actor or director, but "Jesus Christ" Clint you sure do know how to make a depressing movie.
Can't say I like much about this movie, except for the dog.
As dreary as the unforgiven.
DVD Review: The Sequel to Eastwoods Heartbreak Ridge Summary: 4 StarsHaving just watched Clint Eastwoods Grand Torino, I find myself remembering the Clint Eastwood movie HEARTBREAK RIDGE. Clint Eastwoods character in Heartbreak Ridge and Grand Torino give me a literal 25 year story of an honorable American soldier.
DVD Review: excellent movie Summary: 5 Starswell, I think this is probably one of the best movies I've seen in a long time
It really is one of those movies that really gets you to think a little bit
I honestly can relate to this movie as I used to live in the inner city
this is basically a combination of a golden fleece movie - where the relationship with the Hmoung family seems to change this man, but it's also a rite of passage - but if I told you more then I'd be giving it away.
Honestly I think this is a carefully crafted movie, and for the most part I really think it
is really well done.
I'm still a little unsure about why they ended it the way they did, but that's for you to watch and find out for yourself.
DVD Review: Not the ending you would expect Summary: 5 StarsThis movie doesn't end like you would expect from a clint eastwood film, but then again what movie is expected from clint eastwood. Huim and his son do a great job in the creation of this film. It really touches on interracial barries, as well as moral lessons in honosty and integrity. This like most clint eastwood directed films has great acting, and a good story line. He does a good job creating a dark image of himself.
Description of Gran Torino (Widescreen Edition)A disgruntled Korean War vet, Walt Kowalski (Eastwood), sets out to reform his neighbor, a young Hmong teenager, who tried to steal Kowalski's prized possession: his 1972 Gran Torino. Clint Eastwood's Gran Torino, an unassuming picture shot during a post-production lull on his elaborate period piece Changeling, was quietly rolled out at Christmastime 2008, whereupon it proceeded to blow away all the Oscar-bait behemoths at the box office and win its 78-year-old star the best reviews of his acting career. Both film and performance are consummately sly--coming on with deceptive simplicity, only to evolve into something complex, powerful, and surprisingly tender. Just as Unforgiven was a tragic reflection on Eastwood's legacy in the Western genre, Gran Torino caps and eloquently critiques the urban heritage of Dirty Harry and his violent brethren. And on top of that, the movie becomes a savvy meditation on America in a particular historical moment, racially, economically, spiritually. Call it a "state of the union" message. But call it that with a wry grin. The latest Dirty Harry is actually a grumpy Walt: Walt Kowalski (Eastwood playing his own age), widower, Korean War veteran, retired auto worker, and the last white resident of his Detroit side street. It's hard to say who irks him more--his blood kin (a pretty lame bunch) or the Hmong families who are his new neighbors. Kowalski's a racist, because it has never occurred to him he shouldn't be. Besides, that's the flipside of the mutual ethnic baiting that serves as coin of affection for him and his working-class buddies. Circumstances--and two young people next door, the feisty Sue (Ahney Her) and her conflicted brother Thao (Bee Vang)--contrive to involve Walt with a new community, and anoint him as its hero after he turns his big guns on some ruffians. The trajectory of this may surprise you--several times over. Eastwood opted to film in economically blighted Detroit--a shrewd decision, but it's his mapping of Walt's world in that classical style of his that really counts. Every incidental corner of lawn, porch, and basement comes to matter--and by all means the workshop/garage that houses the mint-condition Gran Torino which Walt helped build in a more prosperous era. This is a remarkable movie. --Richard T. Jameson
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