Brian Helgeland adapted Dennis Lehane's novel - long and complex story needs careful following. Boyhood friends grown up to be Sean Penn, Kevin Bacon and Tim Robbins, haunted by shared disturbing childhood experience, now are barely acquaintances who reconnect when Penn's daughter is murdered. It's like a Shakespearean tragedy.
Penn and Robbins won Oscars. Also with Laura Linney, Marcia Gay Harden, Laurence Fishburne, Kevin Chapman.
Another bit of artful filming by Tom Stern, following his tutelage under Conrad Hall, edited by Joel Cox. Music by Clint. Filmed in Boston.
With an uncredited cameo from Clint's GBU pal Eli Wallach.
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