Freeze Frame: A Snapshot Look at October Movies
By Lisa Collins, Hollywood.com Staff
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Tuesday, October 07, 2008
The Changeling
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Period, Thriller
Release Date: October 31
Cast: Angelina Jolie, Amy Ryan, John Malkovich, Jeffrey Donovan
Scoop: Los Angeles, March 1928: In a working-class suburb, single mother Christine Collins (Angelina Jolie) says goodbye to her nine-year-old son, Walter, and leaves for her job as a telephone operator. But when Christine returns home, she's confronted with every parent’s worst nightmare: her son has vanished. An exhaustive, fruitless search ensues, that entangles Christine in a swirl of LAPD corruption, when officials insist on passing off another boy as her still M.I.A. son.
If a Picture Is Worth a Thousand Words, We Say: This is the moment when Angelina's Christine meets her supposed missing son, but there's something wrong. How could we not be drawn to this compelling Eastwood-Jolie collaboration, centered on the dark side of motherhood?
Snapshot Prediction: 4 out of 5 stars
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