Changeling (DVD)

After success with Mystic River and Million Dollar Baby, Clint Eastwood has turned his attention to a real life tale in his latest venture. Yet, despite widespread Oscar buzz pre-release, The Changeling turns out to be a bit of a damp squib. It tells the tale of Christine Collins, whose son, Walter, suddenly disappears. The police eventually track down a boy they say is Walter, but Christine is adamant he is not. The Changeling certainly starts off very well. We are introduced to Christine, a mother who dotes on her son and who is understandably frantic at his disappearance. A promising atmosphere of despair and misery is established and the film ...  Read the complete review

A review of just the film, the region 2 DVD of Changeling was released in March 2009. In 1920s Los Angeles, Christine Collins is a single mother who works in a telephone exchange to support her young son. When she is called into work at short notice one morning, she reluctantly leaves her son alone in the house, unable to turn down the opportunity to earn some extra cash. When she returns home, he is gone and an unbelievable nightmare begins, worsening when the police turn up with a young boy that they claim is her son, even though Christine knows this not to be the case. As a film director, Clint Eastwood really has been at the top of his game now ...  Read the complete review

Changeling is a movie based on a true story about a woman named Mrs. Collins, played by Angelina Jolie, whose son Walter goes missing. Mrs. Collins contacts the police but they refuse to start looking for him for 24 hours. When they finally do start looking, they don't find him but instead find another boy who claims to be Walter. But Mrs. Collins tells them this boy is not her son. The police don't believe Mrs. Collins and insist the boy is her son Walter. They of course then stop looking for the real Walter, and Mrs. Collins refuses to stop fighting for them to search for her real son. In exchange she is thrown into a brutal insane asylum and is told ...  Read the complete review

The Changeling is a 2008 movie, staring Angelina Jolie and directed by Clint Eastwood. It is based on a true story which I think makes it even more brutal and stark in its clever portrail of a mother who loses her son. It is set in 1920's Los Angeles. I think this is a wonderful time in history and it's really nice to see it portrayed on the screen. The costumes in this movie were great and Angelina looks very authentic. She wears lots of great old fashioned hats and has her hair styled just like the women wore it back then. She wears bright red lipstick pretty much all throughout the movie and it looks really good on her. She looks a bit skinny in the movie ...  Read the complete review

Being possibly one of the least people to ever join Angelina Jolie's fan club, I was a little bit sceptical about watching this movie. I was shocked that I haven't reviewed it, because despite all of my scepticism and reluctance to watch this film I found myself watching a brilliantly created and a brilliantly acted film. ======== The Plot ======== This film follows Christine Collins, a young woman who returns home to find that her son has gone missing. She immediately calls the police and they attempt to help her, even finding the child down the line. However upon meeting her son again, Christine is shocked, this person in front of her ...  Read the complete review