Gran Torino (Widescreen Edition)
by Clint Eastwood

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DVD Reviews of Gran Torino (Widescreen Edition)

DVD Review: What else can you say about Clint!
Summary: 5 Stars

DVD Review: dreary and depressing
Summary: 3 Stars

DVD Review: The Sequel to Eastwoods Heartbreak Ridge
Summary: 4 Stars

DVD Review: excellent movie
Summary: 5 Stars

DVD Review: Not the ending you would expect
Summary: 5 Stars

Description of Gran Torino (Widescreen Edition)

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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• Crime
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