Clint Eastwood Gran Torino

Clint Eastwood Gran Torino

Starring: Clint Eastwood, Bee Vang, Ahney Her, Chistopher Carley
Director:Clint Eastwood
Rated: M

Korean War vet and retired autoworker Walt Kowalski doesn't much like how his life or his neighbourhood has turned out. He especally doesn't like the people next door, Hmong immigrants from Southest Asia. But events force Walt to defend those neighbors against a local gang that feeds on violence and fear. For the first time since Million Dollar Baby, Clint Eastwood works on both sides of the camera, winning the National Board of Review Award as Best Actor for his bone-deep playing of Kowalski, burnished with experience, grace and gravitas into a "prime vintage Eastwood performance" (Peter Travers, Rolling Stone).

Special Features:
Manning the Wheel: The Meaning of Manhood As Reflected in American Car Culture
Gran Torino: More than a Car:Visit Detroit and the Woodward Dream Cruise, an Annual Vintage Car Event Where Buffs Describe the Unique Bond Between Men and Vehicles.

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Review:
Clint Eastwood directs himself as Walt Kowalski, a retired Ford assembly line worker, Korean War vet and professional racist. We meet him at the funeral of his wife, surrounded by insufferable children and intolerable grandkids. His family is wondering what to do with him now that he can’t take care of himself. They clearly don’t know him very well. Walt is full of bile and is as sprightly as a bigoted old man can be. His inventive vocabulary is extended towards his Hmong neighbours, who have taken over his formerly Polish neighborhood. Most of his hostility is reserved for shy Thao (Vang), the boy next door, when (upon the insistence of his gang leader cousin Spider) he tries to steal Walt’s beloved Ford Gran Torino. Enter Walt, with rifle.
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