Mystic River

Mystic River (2003)

Timing: 2:18 (138 min)

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Actors and characters

Release date

2003-10-08

Country

United States

Production

Warner Bros. Pictures, Village Roadshow Pictures, Malpaso Productions, NPV Entertainment

Genre

Thriller, Crime, Drama, Mystery

Budget

$25 000 000

Revenue

$156 800 000

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Director

Clint Eastwood

Actors

Sean Penn, Tim Robbins, Kevin Bacon, Laurence Fishburne, Marcia Gay Harden, Laura Linney, Kevin Chapman, Tom Guiry, Emmy Rossum, Spencer Treat Clark
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Scenario

Producer

Clint Eastwood, Judie Hoyt, Robert Lorenz, Bruce Berman

Operator

Tom Stern

Composer

Clint Eastwood

Artist

Audition

Phyllis Huffman

Editing

Joel Cox
All team (36)

• The film is based on Dennis Lehane's novel "Mystic River" (2001).
• Filming took 39 days.
• Clint Eastwood provides the voice-over for the film's promotional trailer.
• Dennis Lehane, the author of "Mystic River", has a cameo role in the film. He appears in a parade scene, waving from a convertible.
• The film Dave is watching on television is titled "Vampires" (1998), starring James Woods and Sheryl Lee.
• Ilya Wollack also received an episodic role in the film. He played the owner of a liquor store. Ilya had not participated in Eastwood's films since the release of "The Good, the Bad and the Ugly" (1966).
• The surname of Jimmy and his family was changed from Marcus (the original source) to Marcum.
• In the beginning of the film, in the episode where young Dave is thrown into the back seat of a car, the person in the front turns around and flashes his ring – a priest's ring. The book contains no mention of this character being a priest. This moment was intentionally added to the film after the circumstances of the scandal involving the Archbishop of Boston became known. Its head, Bernard Law, was implicated in a case related to concealing cases of sexual harassment by priests.
• The film is based on Dennis Lehane's novel "Mystic River" (2001).
• Dennis Lehane, the author of "Mystic River," received a cameo role in the film. He appears in the parade scene, waving from a convertible.
• The film Dave is watching on television is called "Vampires" (1998), starring James Woods and Sheryl Lee.
• Eli Wallach also received a cameo role in the film, playing the owner of a liquor store. Eli had not appeared in an Eastwood film since "The Good, the Bad and the Ugly" (1966).