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IESB has got 35 new images from Clint Eastwood's GRAN TORINO due out in limited release December 12 with a wide release following on January 9.
{sidebar id=1}Multiple Academy Award winner Clint Eastwood stars in the drama "Gran
Torino," marking his first film role since his Oscar-winning film
"Million Dollar Baby." Eastwood stars as an iron-willed and inflexible
Korean War veteran, living in a changing world, who is forced by his
immigrant neighbors to confront his own long-held prejudices.
Retired auto worker Walt Kowalski fills his days with
home repair, beer, and monthly trips to the barber. Though his late
wife's final wish was for him to take confession, for Walt--an
embittered veteran of the Korean War who keeps his M-1 rifle cleaned
and ready--there's nothing to confess. And no one he trusts enough to
confess to other than his dog, Daisy.
The people he once called his neighbors have all moved
or passed away, replaced by the Hmong immigrants he despises. Resentful
of virtually everything he sees--the drooping eaves, overgrown lawns
and the foreign faces surrounding him; the aimless gangs of Hmong,
Latino and African American teenagers who all think the neighborhood
belongs to them; the callow strangers his children have grown up to
be--Walt is just waiting out the rest of his life.
Until the night someone tries to steal his Gran Torino.
Still gleaming as it did the day Walt himself helped roll it off the
assembly line decades ago, the Gran Torino brings his shy teenaged
neighbor Thao (Bee Vang) into his life when Hmong gang-bangers pressure
the boy into trying to steal it.
But Walt stands in the way of both the heist and the
gang, making him the reluctant hero of the neighborhood--especially to
Thao's mother and older sister, Sue (Ahney Her), who insist that Thao
work for Walt as a way to make amends. Though he initially wants
nothing to do with these people, Walt eventually gives in and puts the
boy to work fixing up the neighborhood, setting into motion an unlikely
friendship that will change both their lives.
Through Thao and his family's unrelenting kindness,
Walt eventually comes to understand certain truths about the people
next door. And about himself. These people--provincial refugees from a
cruel past--have more in common with Walt than he has with his own
family, and reveal to him parts of his soul that have been walled off
since the war...like the Gran Torino preserved in the shadows of his
garage.
Warner Bros. Pictures, in association with Village
Roadshow Pictures, a Double Nickel Entertainment, a Malpaso Production,
"Gran Torino." The film is directed by Clint Eastwood from a screenplay
by Nick Schenk, story by Dave Johannson & Schenk. Eastwood, Robert
Lorenz and Bill Gerber are the producers, with Jenette Kahn, Adam
Richman, Tim Moore and Bruce Berman serving as executive producers.
"Gran Torino" will be distributed worldwide by Warner
Bros. Pictures, a Warner Bros. Entertainment Company, and in select
territories by Village Roadshow Pictures.
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