Mystic River (film)

Mystic River is a 2003 American mystery drama film directed and scored by Clint Eastwood. It stars Sean Penn, Tim Robbins, Kevin Bacon, Laurence Fishburne, Marcia Gay Harden, and Laura Linney. The screenplay by Brian Helgeland was based on the novel of the same name by Dennis Lehane. The film was produced by Robert Lorenz, Judie G. Hoyt and Eastwood. It is the first film on which Eastwood was credited as composer of the score.

In 1975, three children, Jimmy, Sean, and Dave, are playing on the streets of Boston when a stranger approaches them. Since the stranger has a badge and is wearing a suit, the children assume that he is a police officer. The stranger orders Dave to enter his car, and Dave obeys, but this leads to him being sexually abused and locked inside a basement for four days, after which he manages to escape.Twentyeight years later, the boys are grown and still live in Boston, but they are no longer close friends. Jimmy Sean Penn is a former convict running a neighborhood store, while Dave Tim Robbins is a bluecollar worker. The two are still neighbors and related by marriage. Sean Kevin Bacon has become a detective with the Massachusetts State Police, but several months ago his wife left him for another man. ........

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