Changeling (2008)

Synopsis:: In this based-on-a-true-story movie, Jolie plays Christine Collins, a single mother in 1928. She reluctantly leaves her 9-year-old son home to pick up a last-minute Saturday shift at the phone company. When she returns home, he's gone. After a five-month search, the Los Angeles Police Department returns a boy to her, but she insists that it's not her son. The police—led by Capt. J.J. Jones (Jeffrey Donovan)—bully her into accepting the situation. She later discovers facts of her own that prove it, but the LAPD won't budge. Reverend Gustav Briegleb (John Malkovich), who regularly trashes the corrupt LAPD on his radio broadcasts, decides to help her. But before her ordeal is over, she will be thrown into an asylum, and there will be an investigation into a serial child murderer (Jason Butler Harner).

Details

Starring:: Angelina Jolie, John Malkovich, Jeffrey Donovan, Michael Kelly, Colm Feore, Jason Butler Harner, Amy Ryan, Geoffrey Pierson, Denis O'Hare, Frank Wood, Peter Gerety, Reed Birney, Gattlin Griffith, Devon Conti, Eddie Alderson

Genres:: Drama, Crime Drama, Literary/Period Drama, Melodrama, Mystery, Suspense, Tearjerkers

Rated:: R
Runtime:: 141
Language:: English
Country:: United States of America
Year:: 2008
Keywords:: 1920s, asylum, courtroom, LAPD, Los Angeles, missing child, police corruption, radio

Attributes ordered and rated by our clerks.

Tearjerker

Disturbing

Downbeat

Character Depth

Slow Pace

Hollywood Feel

Truthfulness

Violence

Suspense

Political

Terror

Soundtrack