Gran Torino

4.00
    Gran Torino
    2008

    Synopsis

    Disgruntled Korean War veteran Walt Kowalski sets out to reform his neighbor, Thao Lor, a Hmong teenager who tried to steal Kowalski's prized possession: a 1972 Gran Torino.

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    Cast

    • Clint EastwoodWalt Kowalski
    • Christopher CarleyFather Janovich
    • Bee VangThao
    • Ahney HerSue
    • Brian HaleyMitch Kowalski
    • Geraldine HughesKaren Kowalski
    • Dreama WalkerAshley Kowalski
    • Brian HoweSteve Kowalski
    • John Carroll LynchBarber Martin
    • William HillTim Kennedy

    Recommendations

    • 91

      Entertainment Weekly

      A movie at once understated and radical, deceptively unremarkable in presentation and ballsy in its earnestness. Don't let the star's overly familiar squint fool you: This is subtle, perceptive stuff.
    • 90

      Village Voice

      Above all, it feels like a summation of everything he (Eastwood) represents as a filmmaker and a movie star, and perhaps also a farewell.
    • 90

      Los Angeles Times

      Perhaps the best thing about Schenk's script is that it enticed Eastwood to end his self-imposed acting hiatus and bring his one-of-a-kind aura back to the screen.
    • 90

      The New York Times

      Mr. Eastwood is also an adept director of his own performances and, perhaps more important, a canny manipulator of his own iconographic presence.
    • 88

      Rolling Stone

      A lifetime in movies runs through this prime vintage Eastwood performance. You can't take your eyes off him. The no-frills, no-bull Gran Torino made my day.
    • 80

      Wall Street Journal

      It's a meditation, as affecting as it is entertaining, on the limits of violence and the power of unchained empathy.
    • 75

      ReelViews

      An amazingly over-the-top anti-racism parable but, despite its obvious shortcomings, it is nevertheless effective and affecting.
    • 75

      The A.V. Club

      Eastwood directs with his usual relaxed pace and bursts of intensity, a style that's pleasing to watch--and which, also as usual, never fully compensates for any shortcomings of the script handed to him.

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