Today’s movie is a crime drama with a scene that happens on March 11.
Watch it tonight and enjoy.
CHANGELING
Christine Collins, single mother
working as a telephone operator comes home to find her nine-year old son,
Walter, missing. The next day on March 11, 1928 [13:28 to 13:54] the police come to investigate little Walter’s
disappearance. Four months later the police bring a boy to Los Angeles.
However, Christine insists he is not her son. When she continues to publicly
announce this, in conjunction with Gustav Briegleb, a minister interested in
exposing police brutality and corruption, she becomes an embarrassment to the
LAPD. Detective J. J. Jones arranges to have her committed until she agrees the
boy is her son. Meanwhile, Detective Lester Ybarra is arranging the deportation
of a boy back to Canada, when they boy tells him that his uncle, with whom he
was staying, Gordon Northcott, kidnapped and killed 20 boys. When Walter is
named as a possible victim, Christine is released from the mental hospital. The
city council investigates the police, while Nothcott is tried and convicted of
murder. Two years later Nothcott torments Christine but offering to, then
refusing to tell what happened to Walter. Seven years later a boy who was
assumed to be a victim turns up. He says Walter and others tried to escape and
he does not know if they succeeded or not. Christine never stopped looking for
her son.
The date of Walter’s disappearance is given as March 10,
1928 at 6:40. The police arrive the next day
Director - Clint Eastwood
Producers - Clint Eastwood, Brian Grazer, Ron Howard and
Robert Lorenz
Screenplay - J. Michael Straczynski
Awards – The film was nominated for the Best Art Direction
and Best Cinematography Oscars. Angelina Jolie was nominated for the Best Actress Oscar at the 81st Academy
Awards
Released – October 24, 2008
Runtime – 2 hours 21 minutes
Starring –
Angelina Jolie as Christine Collins
Jeffrey Donovan as J. J. Jones
John Malkovich as Gustav Briegleb
Jason Butler Harner as Gordon Northcott
Amy Ryan as Carol Dexter
Michael Kelly as Lester Ybarra
Geoff Pierson as Sammy Hahn
Colm Feore as Chief James E. Davis
Copyright by Ivan Walters in 2015
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