Changeling R
Angelina Jolie acts marvelously and with a range of emotion in this 1920's noir thriller. Clint Eastwood directs this excellent and touching film about a conspiracy to cover up a child abduction in Los Angeles by the overbearing and corrupt police department of the time. Jolie pays a woman who's son is abducted and months later the police turn up a boy who they think is her son, only he isn't, and they try to hush her up after she balks and starts nosing around with the local pastor, her doctor, the school and the local paper. The police lock her in an asylum rather than admit the child is not hers. Meanwhile a child killer is arrested and he knows that the boy was one of his potential victims. Jolie was impressive. She can act. This was not her normal movie style. She stood right in there with the likes of Meryl Streep and Anne Bancroft and the like. She deserved best actress for this 2008 movie.
Review by Adam Browne
Agreed: This movie was great, with far more acting range than the Oscar winners in 2008, who everyone has since forgotten. The movie did not do well in theaters because it was released too early in the year to get notice, and with other grittier, prettier movies, it was lost in the glare. This was Angelina Jolie's one nod that really should have landed her at least the Golden Globe for best actress. Really she was that good.
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