Friends who grew up in working-class Boston, they drift apart after a terrible tragedy. Years later, brutal events reconnect them. Jimmy's 19 year-old daughter is coldly murdered. Dave is a suspect. And Sean, now a cop, scrambles to solve the crime before volatile Jimmy takes the law into his own hands. Working from Brian Helgeland's adaptation of Dennis Lehane's novel, director Clint Eastwood shapes a masterwork, a brooding thriller built on a family, friends and innocence lost. Sean Penn, Tim Robbins and Kevin Bacon play the pivotal threesome, joining Laurence Fishburne, Marcia Gay Harden and Laure Linney in one of the most powerful casts ever.
Directed by
Clint Eastwood
Written by
Dennis Lehane (novel); Brian Helgeland (screenplay).
Starring
Sean Penn (Jimmy Markum); Tim Robbins (Dave Boyle); Kevin Bacon (Sean Devine); Laurence Fishburne (Sgt. Whitey Powers); Marcia Gay Harden (Celeste Boyle); Laura Linney (Annabeth Markum); Kevin Chapman (Val Savage); Tom Guiry (Brendan Harris (as Thomas Guiry)); Emmy Rossum (Katie Markum); Spencer Treat Clark (Silent Ray Harris); Andrew Mackin (John O'Shea); Adam Nelson (Nick Savage); Robert Wahlberg (Kevin Savage); Jenny O'Hara (Esther Harris); John Doman (Driver). Please contact SFC to add other cast members and characters.
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