Just saw "Gran Torino" with a 70-something year old Clint Eastwood.
Bravo.
Best damn movie I'd seen in a long time, and Clint Eastwood plays this lonely and crotchety old man whose wife has passed and who is left by himself in a neighboorhood slowly going to the wayside as it is overtaken by Hmong immigrants and gangs, a neighbor boy tries to steal his mint condition 1971 Ford Gran Torino as part of a gang initiation and ends up getting caught and indebted to the character Eastwood plays. It is a movie about the kid learning some morals from underneath the guidance of the reluctant old man, and the old man learning some compassion for the Asian Hmong imigrants; the same people he was dutied to kill in the Vietnam war..... and making a strong sacrifice in the end to save the boy's family from the gang violence.
I won't tell you how it ended, but I really think this movie is Clint Eastwood's "swan song" if you know what I mean. Watch it. He's such a bad ass.
I cried, it was very touching.
Warning: This movie is
very politically incorrect and filled with all kinds of direct racial slurs... but it wouldn't have made Clint's character without.