Jimmy markum penn is an excon who owns a neighborhood store it is his daughter katie who turns up dead. Overview of mystic river, 2003, directed by clint eastwood, with sean penn, tim robbins, kevin bacon, at turner classic movies. I appreciate a good murder mystery, but this movie is dark, depressing and probably not. Directed by clint eastwood, the mysterious drama mystic river is based on the novel by. Mystic river is a 2003 american neonoir mystery drama film directed and scored by clint. Kevin bacon, sean penn, tim robbins, laurence fishburne, marcia gay. Aug 14, 2014 mystic river soundtrack topic 10,845 views 5. The ending explained mystic river 2003 discussion moviechat. Lehane masterfully weaves the many dark and complex threads that run through the novel. A thriller about friendship and loyalty, guilt and vengeance, and the fateful affect the past has on the present. Mystic river 2003 when the daughter emmy rossum of excon jimmy marcus sean penn is murdered, two of his childhood friends from the neighborhood are involved.
Synopsis by andrea levasseur directed by clint eastwood, the mysterious drama mystic river is based on the novel by dennis lehane and. 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. Mystery is one of my favorite genres, if its yours as well then this is the book for you. Mystic river 2003 stream and watch online moviefone. Mystic river 2003 dave boyle, suspected of killing jimmy markums daughter katie, was innocent although he had murdered a child molester the same night. Its hard to believe, but mystic river is clint eastwoods twentyfourth feature film as a director. Daves car had been impounded because of the blood stains in the front seat. Dave tim robbins, a bluecollar worker, was the last person to see her alive, while sean kevin bacon, a homicide detective, is heading up the case. Mystic pizza does create the feeling of a small resort town and the people who live there and, amazingly, given the familiar nature of a lot of. Set in an irish neighborhood in boston, jimmy, sean, and dave are three childhood friends who are reunited after a brutal murder takes place.
Mystic river opens in 1975 and introduces three young boys who are ten and eleven years old and live in east buckingham, a workingclass part of boston. Sean devine bacon is a massachusetts state police detective whose wife has left him but keeps calling to hear his voice. In the summer of 1975 in a neighborhood in boston, three c. Dave tim robbins reveals that he didnt kill jimmys sean penn daughter he actually killed a child molester. Greatest movie plot twists, spoilers and surprise endings. Mystic river is a suspenseful tale, that will have you addicted and wanting to read all of dennis lehanes books. In the scene at the beginning of the movie as the 3 youths walk up the. One boy got into the car, two did not, and something terrible happened something that ended their friendship and changed all three boys forever. Differences between mystic river book vs movie page 1. It involves three boyhood friends in an irish neighborhood of boston, who were forever marked when one of them was captured by a child molester.
When the daughter emmy rossum of excon jimmy marcus sean penn is murdered. Released october 15th, 2003, mystic river stars sean penn, tim robbins, kevin bacon, laurence fishburne the r movie has a runtime of about 2 hr 17 min, and received a score of 84 out of 100 on. Also, dave lies repeatedly about where he was the night of katies murder and how he was wounded. Nov 03, 2003 the brilliance of mystic river is all in the storytelling and the acting. He was tired of his clothes and tired of his hair and tired of other peoples clothes and other.
Mystic river 2001 established dennis lehane as more than a mystery writer. Her father jimmy, having recognized her car, is on the scene and promptly learns of her death. Clint eastwoods mystic river is a dark, ominous brooding about a crime in the present that is emotionally linked to a crime in the past. Directed by clint eastwood, the mysterious drama mystic river is based on the novel by dennis lehane and adapted by screenwriter brian helgeland. Learn the major plot points and story structure of mystic river directed by clint eastwood. You also know that this movie was taken from a true story as well. It stars sean penn, tim robbins, kevin bacon, laurence fishburne, marcia gay harden, and laura linney. Mystic river 2003 r 2h 17m psychological thrillers tragedy reunites childhood friends sean, dave and jimmy when theyre linked together in a murder investigation about jimmys teenage daughter. If you missed that, theres no telling what else you missed. Mystic river is a firstrate thriller that does far more than merely solve a puzzle. Following the standard police detective plot murdered girl, multiple suspects, who will turn out to be the killer. With sean penn, tim robbins, kevin bacon, emmy rossum.
Clint eastwood in mystic river 2003 sean penn in mystic river 2003 tim robbins in mystic river 2003 clint. Mystic river on dvd june 8, 2004 starring sean penn, kevin bacon, tim robbins, laurence fishburne. Three boys, jimmy markum, sean devine, and dave boyle play hockey in a boston street in 1975. Any one of the three subplots would have made for a good individual film. Oct 08, 2003 directed by clint eastwood, the mysterious drama mystic river is based on the novel by dennis lehane and adapted by screenwriter brian helgeland. Oct 03, 2003 clint eastwoods film, scrupulously faithful to the letter and sprit of dennis lehanes novel, has the gritty efficiency of superior crime fiction and the somber weight of tragedy. Mystic river takes a final explosive turn into a complex double denouement that involves both the gun as a murder weapon and an explanation of the suspicious activities of dave boyle the night of katies murder. The movie opens at night in a cold, remote wyoming wilderness on the wind river indian reservation. I watched this movie, as i do many, because it comes highly recommended, and then little things like this throw it all away for me. Everything you need to know about mystic river movie 2003. The 21st century has been full of bronze films but this one is the gold at the end of the rainbow.
Their combination and intersection make mystic river a superior film, at least by contemporary standards. Two of the boys, jimmy marcus and dave boyle, live in the flats area, while sean devine lives in the nicer point area. Mystic river 2003 cast and crew when the daughter emmy rossum of excon jimmy marcus sean penn is murdered, two of his childhood friends from the neighborhood are involved. The film was directed by clint eastwood and starred sean penn as jimmy markum the characters last name was changed from marcus to markum for the film, tim robbins as dave, and kevin bacon as sean. The warner bros and village roadshow logos at the beginning of the film are not animated.
This 59page guide for mystic river by dennis lehane includes detailed chapter summaries and analysis covering 27 chapters, as well as several more indepth sections of expertwritten literary analysis. A lifetime of history in the same place has all of the characters overlapping, intersecting, and echoing each others lives. Moviechat forums mystic river 2003 discussion incredibly bad plot hole incredibly bad plot hole posted 3 years ago by mastro7261 9 replies jump to latest. Mystic river, cert 15 peter bradshaw friday 17 october 2003. The synopsis below may give away important plot points. Incredibly bad plot hole mystic river 2003 discussion. Tired of books and tv and the nightly news and songs on the radio hed heard years before and hadnt liked much in the first place. The screenplay, written by brian helgeland, was based on the novel of the same name by dennis lehane. Like most of lehanes novels, mystic river is set in boston, the city he grew up in and eventually returned to as an adult. A tense and unnerving psychological thriller, mystic river is also an epic novel of love and loyalty, faith and family, in which people irrevocably marked by the past find themselves on a collision course with the darkest truths of their own hidden selves. Synopsis three young boys, all the best of friends, are playing stick hockey on a side street in a gritty area of boston near the port facilities on the mystic river. When jimmy markums daughter is found murdered, his childhood friend sean devinenow a detectiveis assigned to the case. He pushed sean aside and crossed the street onto gannon.
Last time i saw dave, jimmy said, was at my house last night. Synopsis by andrea levasseur directed by clint eastwood, the mysterious drama mystic river is based on the novel by dennis lehane and adapted by screenwriter brian helgeland. Mystic river is a 2003 american neonoir mystery drama film directed and scored by clint eastwood. To optimize your experience with your screen reading software, please use our website, which has the same tickets as our and websites. Natalie hanson, an 18yearold native american woman, is running barefoot through the snow while crying and looking back over her shoulder when we see the opening credits. When they were children, sean devine, jimmy marcus, and dave boyle were friends. Mystic river scores its point by enlisting a set of actors who surpass their level, led by a tremendous sean penn. Mystic river is the rare american movie that aspires to and achieves the full weight and darkness of tragedy. Mystic river, the academy awardwinning adaptation of the novel, was released in 2003. If you know boston you know thahs a mystic river thaha. So he confessed knowing full well what jimmy was going to do. In mystic river, sean and whitey dont have a clue about the real killers of katie until they finally listen to the 911 tape. Sean notices that the caller refers to the victim as a she, although he couldnt know that the victim is a girl since he saw only the car and the body was dumped in the park. Clint eastwood won a golden coach for mystic river at the 2003 cannes film festival.
The lives of three men who were childhood friends are shattered when one of them has a family tragedy. The murder of a teenage daughter reunites three boyhood friends from the working class suburbs north of boston in their late 30s. Mystic river is a film directed by clint eastwood with sean penn, tim robbins, kevin bacon, laurence fishburne, year. Now 25 years later jimmy is an excon, sean is a cop, and dave is still. Supersummary, a modern alternative to sparknotes and cliffsnotes, offers highquality study guides for challenging works of literature. Best clint eastwood movie far greater than million dollar baby.
Mystic river brings more closely to mind the catholic, bluecollar, suburban boston of cornercutting cops, petty criminals, dubious lawyers and workingstiffs that george v. One day three friends sean, jimmy, and dave were confronted by two men. Mystic river is a 2003 american drama film directed, coproduced and scored by clint eastwood, starring sean penn, tim robbins, kevin bacon, laurence fishburne, marcia gay harden, laura linney and emmy rossum. Film titleyear and plot twistspoilersurprise ending description. When it comes to the plot itself this was where much was changed from reading the book. Lehane had previously written a successful series of novels centered around two detectives named angie gennaro and patrick kenzie.
Clint eastwoods latest movie as a director is a stolid, masculine thriller bearing the lineaments of tragedy something classical. Mystic river is the name and brilliant writing is the game. So here you have a bunch of friends that have known each other for some time now and the next thing you see happening when sean penns daughter is murdered is these friends and their families all start to get a little nutty about who it was that killed his daughter so. In the scene at the beginning of the movie as the 3 youths walk up the street, you can see current ma license plates, although the action should have taken place many years earlier. Synopsis when the daughter emmy rossum of excon jimmy marcus sean penn is murdered, two of his childhood friends from the neighborhood are involved.
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