{"id":1957,"date":"2012-12-03T19:53:24","date_gmt":"2012-12-04T00:53:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/?p=1957"},"modified":"2012-12-03T19:53:24","modified_gmt":"2012-12-04T00:53:24","slug":"mystic-river","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/2012\/12\/mystic-river\/","title":{"rendered":"Mystic River"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>{5\/5} &#8220;The reality is we&#8217;re still 11 year old boys locked in a cellar imagining what our lives would have been if we&#8217;d escaped.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>When Jimmy, Dave, and Sean were kids they wrote their names in wet cement. An official-looking guy caught them and scolded them &#8212; he then told Dave to get in his car. Four days later, Dave escaped from his captors. Years later Jimmy&#8217;s daughter has been murdered. Sean is a police officer on the case. Something happened to Dave on the night of the murder &#8212; there&#8217;s no way he could have murdered his friend&#8217;s daughter, is there?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Mystic River\u00a0<\/strong>was released in 2003.<\/p>\n<p>This is a movie\u00a0that pulls you in with its gripping story and tremendous acting. You can&#8217;t take your eyes off the people on the screen.<\/p>\n<p>When something unbelievably\u00a0horrible happens to you as a kid, it scars you forever. When something horrible happens to one of your best friends, it affects you forever too.<\/p>\n<p>Sean Penn (<strong>Milk<\/strong>) plays Jimmy, Tim Robbins (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/2012\/11\/arlington-road\/\"><strong>Arlington Road<\/strong><\/a>) plays Dave, and Kevin Bacon (<strong>Apollo 13<\/strong>) plays Sean. Marcia Gay Harden (<strong>Whip It<\/strong>) plays Celeste, Dave&#8217;s wife,\u00a0and Laura Linney (the TV show <a href=\"http:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/2012\/02\/the-big-c-seasons-1-2\/\"><strong>The Big C<\/strong><\/a>) plays Annabeth,\u00a0Jimmy&#8217;s wife. Laurence Fishburne (<strong>The Matrix<\/strong>) plays Whitey, Sean&#8217;s partner.<\/p>\n<p>In case the liquor store owner looks familiar, it&#8217;s Eli Wallach (<strong>The Good, the Bad and the Ugly<\/strong>).<\/p>\n<p>The movie was directed by Clint Eastwood (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/2012\/09\/trouble-with-the-curve\/\"><strong>Trouble with the Curve<\/strong><\/a>). Eastwood also wrote the music, as he did for <strong>Changeling<\/strong>. His music is simple but effective.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>{5\/5} &#8220;The reality is we&#8217;re still 11 year old boys locked in a cellar imagining what our lives would have been if we&#8217;d escaped.&#8221; When Jimmy, Dave, and Sean were kids they wrote their names in wet cement. An official-looking guy caught them and scolded them &#8212; he then told Dave to get in his [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[15,6,5],"class_list":["post-1957","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-movies","tag-drama","tag-movie","tag-review"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1957","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1957"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1957\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1960,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1957\/revisions\/1960"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1957"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1957"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1957"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}