Gran Torino (Widescreen Edition) | 
| Director: Clint Eastwood
Actors: Clint Eastwood, Brian Haley, Christopher Carley, Geraldine Hughes
Studio: Warner Home Video
Category: DVD
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Rating:  406 reviews
Format: Color, DVD, Widescreen, Subtitled, NTSC
Languages: English (Original Language), English (Unknown), English (Subtitled), French (Subtitled), Spanish (Subtitled)
Rating: R (Restricted)
Autographed: No
Memorabilia: No
Region: 1
Aspect Ratio: 2.35:1
Number Of Discs: 1
Running Time: 116 Minutes
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.3
Dimensions (in): 7.5 x 5.3 x 0.6
MPN: 1000041155
UPC: 883929033164
EAN: 0883929033164
Theatrical Release Date: December 17, 2008
Release Date: June 9, 2009
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
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| • | A disgruntled Korean War vet, Walt Kowalski (Eastwood), sets out to reform his neighbor, a young Hmong teenager, who tried to steal Kowalski's prized possession: his 1972 Gran Torino. Format: DVD MOVIE Genre: ACTION/ADVENTURE Rating: R Age: 883929033164 UPC: 883929033164 Manufacturer No: 1000041155 |
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Product Description
Disgruntled Korean war vet Walt Kowalski sets out to reform his neighbor, a young Hmong teenager, who tried to steal Kowalski's prized possession: his 1972 Gran Torino.
Clint Eastwood's Gran Torino, an unassuming picture shot during a post-production lull on his elaborate period piece Changeling, was quietly rolled out at Christmastime 2008, whereupon it proceeded to blow away all the Oscar-bait behemoths at the box office and win its 78-year-old star the best reviews of his acting career. Both film and performance are consummately sly--coming on with deceptive simplicity, only to evolve into something complex, powerful, and surprisingly tender. Just as Unforgiven was a tragic reflection on Eastwood's legacy in the Western genre, Gran Torino caps and eloquently critiques the urban heritage of Dirty Harry and his violent brethren. And on top of that, the movie becomes a savvy meditation on America in a particular historical moment, racially, economically, spiritually. Call it a "state of the union" message. But call it that with a wry grin. The latest Dirty Harry is actually a grumpy Walt: Walt Kowalski (Eastwood playing his own age), widower, Korean War veteran, retired auto worker, and the last white resident of his Detroit side street. It's hard to say who irks him more--his blood kin (a pretty lame bunch) or the Hmong families who are his new neighbors. Kowalski's a racist, because it has never occurred to him he shouldn't be. Besides, that's the flipside of the mutual ethnic baiting that serves as coin of affection for him and his working-class buddies. Circumstances--and two young people next door, the feisty Sue (Ahney Her) and her conflicted brother Thao (Bee Vang)--contrive to involve Walt with a new community, and anoint him as its hero after he turns his big guns on some ruffians. The trajectory of this may surprise you--several times over. Eastwood opted to film in economically blighted Detroit--a shrewd decision, but it's his mapping of Walt's world in that classical style of his that really counts. Every incidental corner of lawn, porch, and basement comes to matter--and by all means the workshop/garage that houses the mint-condition Gran Torino which Walt helped build in a more prosperous era. This is a remarkable movie. --Richard T. Jameson
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 Enjoyable viewing but you need to be in the mood for it. March 10, 2010
J. Watson (Moved to El Paso, TX)
This movie deals with some sensitive issues and is not just a good-hearted movie. It is most definitely a drama with some quirky humor in it. While watching the movie, we used some of the issues tackled in the movie to open some dialogue. It is something that we will watch multiple times.
Clint vs the gangbangers March 10, 2010
C. Rocklein
Wow, this was a great flick with a cool ending that I didn't see coming. This movie had a lot of heart. Age appropriate for Clint, but with nuts of steel. A perfect vehicle.
Eastwood fighting racism March 4, 2010
Theodor Black
I don't know why but I am so happy Clint Eastwood has been acting in, directing, editing etc. movies that humanize asian people. Being half asian and seeing this movie and Letters from Iwo Jima I'm really liking what Clint is doing. Aside from the humanizing asians in america, this movie was brilliant. Thank you Clint. You rock! You always have.
Exemplary February 27, 2010
C. DeGetmon (Earth)
Clint Eastwood continues to demonstrate he is a master film maker. Grand Torino is a film about redemption and loss, it is about a man who loses himself and finds himself while staying true to his inner compass without compromise. Beneath the gruff exterior is man with a heart of gold, even if he has little sensitivity for expressing himself.
Eastwood has created a character of the American male in its fullness if not its perfection.
In Grand Torino we find an ageing man still living in the same neighborhood of his youth while on its downward slide into crime, gang takeovers, and ethnic cultural shifts of the neighborhood.
Eastwood - the `loner' - refuses to leave a neighborhood that has totally transformed itself culturally leaving him as the only `white' guy left; nevertheless he finds himself developing a friendship with a young Vietnamese lad who is being intimidated to join a gang.
Eastwood decides to take on the intimidation to protect the family who lives next to him, and the story weaves its magic by the developing relationship between Eastwood and the ethnic Vietnamese family who he adopts as his proxy family; the backdrop also tells a tale of the estranged relationship he has to his own family as a juxtaposition to his adopted family.
The character development is one of the exemplary nuances of the film. In Eastwood we see the same themes repeated in our own ethnic cultural makeup of the diminished concern this culture hold for its elders.
In my view, Eastwood delivers an Oscar worthy performance. The films climax reaches its conclusion by delivering a clever twist in fortunes. Rather than tell you how it turns out, rest assured poetic justice takes its conclusion in the only direction worthy of the themes of the film. The gang situation is resolved heroically in a fashion one could not predict; and Eastwood is a protagonist worthy of a character misunderstood yet honorable in a way that touches the root and core or our humanity.
Great film worthy of your time.
Eastwood is one of the Greatest February 24, 2010
Michael J. Gordon (LA, USA)
Clint Eastwood directs and takes the lead in this epic story of the diverse cultural mix that our society is made up of today. The movie has plent of gritty Eastwood humour but is hard hitting and serious at the same time. This is a must see.
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