Changeling

Titolo originale: Changeling
Regia: Clint Eastwood |
Anno: 2008
Origine: United States of America |
Generi: Crime Dramma Mistero
Tag: biography | based on true story | clergyman | child in peril | police corruption | los angeles, california | single mother | street urchin | missing child | mental asylum | mental hospital | shock treatment | 1920s | missing son | mother son relationship | desperate woman | disbelieving cop | child abduction | telephone switchboard operator | female hysteria | police coverup | apathetic |
Cast: Angelina Jolie | John Malkovich | Jeffrey Donovan | Michael Kelly | Colm Feore | Jason Butler Harner | Amy Ryan | Geoff Pierson | Denis O'Hare | Frank Wood | Peter Gerety | Reed Birney | Gattlin Griffith | Michelle Gunn | Jan Devereaux | Erica Grant | Antonia Bennett | Kerri Randles | Morgan Eastwood | Madison Hodges | Devon Conti | Ric Sarabia | J.P. Bumstead | Debra Christofferson | Russell Edge | Stephen W. Alvarez | Pete Rockwell | John Harrington Bland | Pamela Dunlap | Roger Hewlett | Jim Cantafio | Maria J. Rockwell | Wendy Worthington | Riki Lindhome | Dawn Flood | Dale Dickey | Eddie Alderson | Sterling Wolfe | Michael McCafferty | David Goldman | Anthony De Marco | Joshua Logan Moore | Joe Kaprielian | Muriel Minot | Kevin Glikmann | Drew Richards | Hope Shapiro | Caleb Campbell | Jeff Cockey | Zach Mills | Kelly Lynn Warren | Colby French | Scott Leva | Richard King | Clint Ward | Michael Dempsey | Peter Breitmayer | Phil Van Tee | Jim Nieb | Lily Knight | Jeffrey Hutchinson | Brian Prescott | Ryan Cutrona | Mary Stein | Gregg Binkley | William Charlton | Cooper Thornton | E.J. Callahan | Asher Axe | Devon Gearhart | Dalton Stumbo | Austin Mensch | Jen Lilley | Navah Raphael | Suzanne LaChasse | William Brent | Callie Thompson | Michael Lovern | Patrizia Milano | January Welsh | Jarrod Robbins | Marissa Welsh | Kerry Hennessy | JW Wiseman | Christopher Karl Johnson | Jessica Irvine Drake | Kimberly Langley | Jennifer Swirtz | Andre Alexsen | John H. Tobin | Dominick Dunne | Danton Dabar | Scott Pierce | Gary Buckner | Bruce Holman |

Los Angeles, marzo 1928. Un sabato Christine Collins lascia a casa da solo il giudizioso figlio Walter che ha avuto da un uomo che li ha abbandonati. Al ritorno dal lavoro fa una terribile scoperta: il bambino non c'è più e di lui si è persa ogni traccia. Finché, 5 mesi dopo, la polizia locale sembra aver risolto il caso. Consegna infatti a Christine un bambino che dice di esser Walter e che un po' gli assomiglia. La madre è però certa che è suo figlio ed è supportata in questo anche da altre persone che lo conoscevano bene, a partire dalla maestra. Le autorità di polizia, sostenute da un'opinione pubblica desiderosa di rassicuranti lieto fine, insistono nella loro versione fino a decidere di internare Christine attribuendole disturbi mentali che l'avrebbero spinta a non riconoscere nel sedicente Walter il proprio figlio. Christine però non si arrende e, sostenuta dal reverendo Guistav Briegleb, continua a lottare perché le ricerche di Walter continuino.

Approfondimenti

The cast includes one Oscar winner: Angelina Jolie; and two Oscar nominees: John Malkovich and [...] D
Clint Eastwood agreed to direct the same afternoon he read the script. D
When Christine visits Gordon before his execution, one of the guards inform her she has twenty [...] D
The fate of Sanford Clark, the thirteen-year-old boy who was forced by his uncle, Gordon Stewar [...] D
The book The Road Out Of Hell mentions in 1962 in Saskatoon that Sanford Clark told his son Jer [...] D
The first cut ran fifty minutes longer. It includes two major scenes shot but removed. The firs [...] D
Christine tells Walter (at 0:06:09) there is a new Charles Chaplin movie. This would have been [...] D
Jen Lilley's debut. D
Clint Eastwood said in the DVD extras that part of the reason why he cast Angelina Jolie is tha [...] D
Michael Kelly (Det. Lester) and Reed Birney (Mayor Cryer) became regular co-stars a few years l [...] D
The New York City premiere of this movie was Angelina Jolie's first public appearance after she [...] D
This movie omits several real-life aspects of the Walter Collins case (probably for the sake of [...] D
The title refers to a European folk legend. Supposedly, fairies, elves, trolls, or even the Dev [...] D
This marks the first time since Assassinio sull'Eiger (1975) that Clint Eastwood directed a mov [...] D
The screenplay for this movie was featured in the 2006 Blacklist; a list of the "most liked" un [...] D
Screenwriter J. Michael Straczynski first learned of the story of Christine Collins from an unn [...] D
Based on the true story of the Wineville Chicken Coop Murders, also known as the Wineville Chic [...] D
Dominick Dunne: The true crime writer is seen briefly in a non-speaking part of a jurist in the [...] D
Historically, Gordon Stewart Northcott took 13-year-old Sanford Clark from his home in Saskatoo [...] D
Hilary Swank and Reese Witherspoon lobbied for the role of Christine Collins. Clint Eastwood ca [...] D
Producer and director Clint Eastwood's children Morgan Eastwood and Kyle Eastwood cooperated on [...] D
Ron Howard planned to direct this movie, until scheduling conflicts dictated otherwise. He then [...] D
The theme song for this movie was loosely based on the song "Baby Mine" from Dumbo (1941). D
Some scenes were filmed at a train station in San Bernardino, California during the 2007 Califo [...] D
Christine Collins (Angelina Jolie) tells her boss that she's betting on Accadde una notte (1934 [...] D
Shipped to some theaters under the name "Nomad", an in-joke based on Star Trek: The Changeling [...] D
There is a roadside café named "Bummy's", which appeared early on (at 0:17:06). This is poss [...] D
Reunites Clint Eastwood with his Nel centro del mirino (1993) co-star John Malkovich, albeit in [...] D
In history, Chief of Police James E. Davis (chief: 4/1/1926 - 12/29/1929 and 8/10/1933 - 11/18/ [...] D