Changeling

3.50
    Changeling
    2008

    Synopsis

    Christine Collins is overjoyed when her kidnapped son is brought back home. But when Christine suspects that the boy returned to her isn't her child, the police captain has her committed to an asylum.

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    Cast

    • Angelina JolieChristine Collins
    • John MalkovichRev. Gustav Briegleb
    • Jeffrey DonovanCaptain J.J. Jones
    • Michael KellyDetective Lester Ybarra
    • Colm FeoreChief James E. Davis
    • Jason Butler HarnerGordon Northcott
    • Amy RyanCarol Dexter
    • Geoff PiersonS.S. Hahn
    • Denis O'HareDr. Jonathan Steele
    • Frank WoodBen Harris

    Recommendations

    • 100

      Variety

      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.
    • 90

      The Hollywood Reporter

      In Changeling Eastwood continues to probe uncomfortable subjects to depict the individual and even existential struggle to do what is right.
    • 90

      Newsweek

      Eastwood tells his haunting, sorrowful saga with such a sure, steady hand, only a very hardened cynic could fail to be moved.
    • 88

      Chicago Sun-Times

      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.
    • 70

      The New Yorker

      Changeling is beautifully wrought, but it has the abiding fault of righteously indignant filmmaking: it congratulates us for feeling what we already feel.
    • 60

      Slate

      All of Eastwood's rigorous craftsmanship seems wasted on a movie whose message never rises above the bumper-sticker admonition that "mean people suck."
    • 50

      Village Voice

      Burdened by a convoluted script and an ensemble-proof leading lady, the director fails to illuminate a particular corrupt system.
    • 50

      Entertainment Weekly

      The trouble with Changeling is that it plays less like reality than like a bare-bones, moralistic rehash of other, better movies, such as "L.A. Confidential" or "Frances."

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