This movie is really good! I do have some reservations about how things wrap up; it’s certainly not bad, but I don’t think it completely satisfies me. However, everything else in 'Mystic River' is top-notch. The actors are fantastic, including the lead performers Sean Penn, Tim Robbins and Kevin Bacon, as well as Laurence Fishburne and Marcia Gay Harden in supporting roles. Bacon and Fishburne together create a re…

The film *Mystic River* consistently pushes forward its somber crime story through a carefully constructed and realistic script. The past weighs heavily on people. Experiences and interactions during vulnerable childhood years can return later with damaging psychological effects. A young boy, unaware of the danger he was in, was taken; an unsolved mystery that deeply affected a close-knit Massachusetts neighborhood, …

Clint Eastwood directed "Mystic River," a 2003 story about three men growing up in a working-class Boston neighborhood. As children, one of them suffered a traumatic abduction and sexual abuse that lasted for days. Years later, they’ve grown distant; Jimmy (Sean Penn) has turned his life around and owns a market when his daughter is killed (Emmy Rossum). Sean (Kevin Bacon), a police officer, investigates the crime wi…