| 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:  404 reviews
Sales Rank: 263
Format: Color, DVD, Widescreen, Subtitled, NTSC
Languages: English (Original Language), English (Unknown), English (Subtitled), French (Subtitled), Spanish (Subtitled)
Rating: R (Restricted)
Region: 1
Aspect Ratio: 2.35:1
Number Of Discs: 1
Running Time: 116 Minutes
Shipping Weight (lbs): 5
Dimensions (in): 7.5 x 5.3 x 0.6
MPN: 1000041155
UPC: 883929033164
EAN: 0883929033164
ASIN: B001KVZ6F2
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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 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.
 doesn't play February 20, 2010
Deborah Froelich
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
I received the DVD quickly but when I went to play it on my computer, it would not play. Very disappointed.
 A lot of fuss over nothing.... February 20, 2010
JR (Philadelphia, PA)
0 out of 2 found this review helpful
This movie is about the importance of collecting valuable possessions over your lifetime and giving them to who you think is most deserving. Clint Eastwood did not think his family was worthy of his car or the valuable set of tools he accumulated over 50 years, so he gave them to the Cambodian family from next door because they gave him food. I thought the whole ordeal was very shallow and unnotable.
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