Mystic River
Crime, Drama, Mystery
Warner Bros.  (2003) 138 mins R

8.0 (87,774 votes) Top 250: #236
Winner of 2 Academy Awards: Best Actor - Sean Penn, Best Supporting Actor - Tim Robbins

Jimmy. Dave. Sean. 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 family, friends and innocence lost. Sean Penn, Tim Robbins and Kevin Bacon play the pivotal threesome, joining Lawrence Fishburne, Marcia Gay Harden and Laura Linney in one of the most powerful casts ever. The river has many depths. Let it wash over you....

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Cast and Crew
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
Director  .....  Clint Eastwood
Producer  .....  Clint Eastwood; Judie G. Hoyt; Bruce Berman; Judie Hoyt
Writer  .....  Brian Helgeland; Dennis Lehane
Notes
Goofs:
Continuity: When Dave is sitting in the dark and speaks to Celeste about vampires near the end of the film, he is watching, _Vampire$ (1998)_ . However, as the scene progresses, the movie in the movie keeps switching from one scene to another and back again. (more)

Trivia:
More than 2,000 people who wanted to be extras in the movie showed up at the Boston Teachers Union on 14 September 2002 for the open casting call. Carolyn Pickman of Collinge-Pickman Casting told The Boston Globe a week later that about two-thirds of those trying out would be called to fill a church and a local bar, play spectators at a parade, or walk through other scenes. All types of people from the greater Boston area (and as far away as New Hampshire) attended the call, where they waited in long lines to eventually hand in their applications and get their pictures taken. (more)

Filming Locations:
Bear dens, Long Crouch Woods, Franklin Park, Boston, Massachusetts, USA (more)

Quotes:
Jimmy: We bury our sins here, Dave. We wash them clean. (more)

Awards:
Won 2 Oscars. Another 41 wins & 62 nominations (more)