Changeling

2008

140 mins

One Saturday in prohibition-era Los Angeles, a woman's nine-year-old son is kidnapped. Months later, amidst a tsunami of press... More

One Saturday in prohibition-era Los Angeles, a woman's nine-year-old son is kidnapped. Months later, amidst a tsunami of press interest, the cops triumphantly bring her a boy they claim is her missing child. But it's not really him. In trying to uncover the truth of what's going on, the woman is ridiculed, labelled as delusional and thrown into an asylum. Only a local crusading pastor is willing to help her fight to expose the LAPD's lies and corruption.

It's another tumultuous Oscar-botherer from director Clint Eastwood, with Angelina Jolie unleashing the tears as Christine Collins, the vilified mom in search of her boy, and John Malkovich as her ally Reverend Briegleb. Shockingly enough, it's a true story.

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Changeling | Ratings & Reviews

62_%206 reviews
Rotten Tomatoes® rating
82_%227,322 reviews
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"A mesmerising film that burns in the memory."

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Rolling Stone

"The script is compelling, the direction confident, the production values professional. But it does not, in the end, feel real."

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New York Daily News

"Emotionally powerful and stylistically sure-handed, this true story-inspired drama begins small with the disappearance of a young boy, only to gradually fan out to become a comprehensive critique of the entire power structure of Los Angeles, circa 1928."

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Variety

"The truth about the case of Christine Collins is so shocking and dramatic that embellishment must have seemed pointless, but in sticking so close to the historical record, Mr. Straczynski and Mr. Eastwood have produced a distended, awkward narrative whose strongest themes are lost in the murky pomp of period detail."

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The New York Times

"A glum, listless affair that springs to life now and then, only to sag back into its saggy, depressive cushion."

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Salon

"Jolie, Malkovich and Geoff Pierson, as a lawyer who takes Collins' case before the Police Board, are very good at what they do very well. The film's most riveting performance is by Jason Butler Harner as the murderous Gordon Northcott."

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Roger Ebert

"In other hands, these clashes of good and evil might have seemed ordinary, but Eastwood makes Changeling a hard story to shake off. To see this film is to understand both how fragile and how essential our hopes for decency and truth are in a world that must be made to care about either one."

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Los Angeles Times

"In Changeling Eastwood continues to probe uncomfortable subjects to depict the individual and even existential struggle to do what is right."

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Hollywood Reporter

"Changeling is an almost universally impressive all-around effort, and is the best "dirty underbelly of Los Angeles" movie since "L.A. Confidential.""

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