From his very first reading, director / producer Clint Eastwood knew he wanted to bring Dennis Lehane’s best-selling novel Mystic River to the screen. “I read the book and optioned it immediately,” he recalls. “It’s a riveting story with enormous potential as a film. The characters are complex, interesting and well defined.” Eastwood, who won…
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Mystic River (2003)
Taglines: We bury our sins, we wash them clean. 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, the way most boys did in their blue-collar neighborhood of East Buckingham….