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.

Errori

Rev. Gustav is a Presbyterian minister, but the arrangement of the deep chancel area in his church [...] D
During Walter's, David's, and Jeffery's escape, just after Sandford Clark says "They're not in ther [...] D
Twice during the film Christine mentions that the boy pretending to be Walter is three inches short [...] D
The very last shot is mainly CGI. There are a lot of pedestrians who cross the street and just disa [...] D
Detective Ybarra uses the term "serial killer," coined by FBI Special Agent Robert K. Ressler in th [...] D
Only one small Birney Red Car (from Orange Empire Trolley Museum) was used. In reality, mostly yell [...] D
When Captain Jones tells Christine Collins that her son is safe, and that he was seen with a drifte [...] D
Jeffrey Donovan's left ear is pierced, which was not acceptable for a police officer anywhere in 19 [...] D
When Rev. Gustav is speaking from the pulpit of his church, the design of the pipe organ is from at [...] D
A telephone caller tells Christine to go to Lincoln Heights Precinct. Police stations in California [...] D
The sandwich in the fridge is in a clear plastic bag and the bread is obviously commercial pre-slic [...] D
In 1935, the women talk about listening to the Academy Awards on the radio and make a bet on the Be [...] D
When the 15-year-old accomplice stops digging and rolls on the floor, his overalls are hanging. Whe [...] D
A scene set in 1928 features electro-convulsive therapy (also known as electroshock therapy). Elect [...] D
Frosted flakes served for breakfast to Walter were invented only in the 1950s. D
When the police car pulls up to the Collins house to take down the missing child report, the first [...] D
When "Walter" and his mother pose for the news picture outside the train, the policewoman who escor [...] D
A simple lunch for two in a cheap diner comes to two dollars, about $28 in 2008. In 1928, the sandw [...] D
Christine mentions her husband ran away because he couldn't handle the responsibilities of being a [...] D
At the beginning, as the electric tram-car (Streetcar) goes by, there are no overhead cables; the c [...] D
Several times when referencing the Wineville crime scene, officers refer to the location as "...up [...] D
When Northcott visits his sister, her hair is very stringy, and some hangs in her face. In the next [...] D
The night before he disappears, Walter expresses his disappointment about missing a broadcast of "A [...] D
A telephone operator uses the phrase "don't go there" to indicate a subject she doesn't want to tal [...] D
As Christine steps on the train to go see Gordon Northcott in prison, two blasts from a diesel loco [...] D
When Christine gets out of bed in the morning, the light hits her left arm, and Angelina Jolie's ta [...] D
The scene depicting Vancouver in September shows snow-capped peaks in the distance. At that time of [...] D
When Detective Lester Ybarra, and Sandford Clark arrive back at the ranch to dig for the remains, t [...] D
A camera shadow is present three times in the bottom left hand corner of the screen in the wide sho [...] D
When Sanford Clark is first looking at the photographs of the missing boys, the picture on the bott [...] D
Rev. Gustav and Mrs. Collins meet at his home. The walls in the background are full of religious im [...] D
On March 9, 1928, Christine says they might see The Mysterious Airman the next day. The movie was r [...] D
When Christine Collins measures Walter for the first time you can see that after she scribbles on t [...] D
At the end of the hanging, there is a distinct pattern on the bottom of Northcott's shoes. At the t [...] D
When Christine is committed and hosed down, the tattoo on Angelina Jolie's back is visible. D
The last scene shows an L.A. street. An old-style traffic post with a GO signal is on the right. Ca [...] D
Mrs. Collins tells Walter she's left him a "sandwich in the fridge." In 1928 the word "fridge" was [...] D
Christine Collins' house, and the house next door, have modern composition-style shingles and roof [...] D
First when Christine is thrown in her cell, the hatch behind the barred window is shut with force. [...] D
Reverend Gustav Briegleb pronounces "Los Angeles" with a soft "g". In the 1920s, most Californians [...] D