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Genre | L'echange, Drama, DVD Movie, Blu-ray Movie, Action & Adventure/Thrillers, The Exchange |
Format | Multiple Formats, Dolby, AC-3, Blu-ray, Color, NTSC, Dubbed, DTS Surround Sound, Widescreen, Subtitled See more |
Contributor | Angelina Jolie, Colm Feore, Denis O'Hare, John Malkovich, Jason Butler Harner, Clint Eastwood, Frank Wood, Eddie Alderson, Gattlin Griffith, Jeffrey Donovan, Gary D. Roach, Tom Stern, Michael Kelly, Devon Conti, Joel Cox, Amy Ryan See more |
Language | English |
Runtime | 2 hours and 22 minutes |
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Clint Eastwood directs Oscar® winner Angelina Jolie and Oscar® nominee John Malkovich in a riveting and unforgettable true story. Los Angeles, 1928. When single mother Christine Collins (Jolie) leaves for work, her son vanishes without a trace. Five months later, the police reunite mother and son; but he isn’t her boy. Driven by one woman’s relentless quest for the truth, the case exposes a world of corruption, captivates the public and changes Los Angeles forever. This emotionally gripping story illustrates the profound power of a mother’s love in “a mesmerizing film that burns in the memory” (Peter Travers, Rolling Stone).
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Clint Eastwood’s mastery as a director, established over the past decade and a half with Unforgiven, Million Dollar Baby, Letters from Iwo Jima, and others, continues with Changeling, a 2008 offering based on a shocking but all-too-true story about child abduction and police corruption in 1920s Los Angeles. Single mother Christine Collins (Angelina Jolie, excellent in a role with somewhat limited parameters) finds her 9-year-old son, Walter, missing when she returns home from work one day. She files a report with the Los Angeles Police Department, an outfit that was wildly unpopular at the time (in his regular radio broadcast, a crusading pastor played by John Malkovich decries the force as "violent and corrupt," adding that "our protectors are our brutalizers"). When a child roughly matching Walter’s description turns up in Illinois five months later, the LAPD, intent on salvaging its tattered reputation, is only too eager to claim that he is Collins’ missing child. Little matters that he’s three inches shorter, is circumcised (Walter wasn’t), and fails to pass muster with Walter’s dentist, schoolteacher, and others; the cops, in particular the odious Captain J.J. Jones (Jeffrey Donovan), insist that the mistake is Christine’s, not theirs. What follows is almost too nightmarish to believe--except that it actually happened. Exasperated by Collins’ continued claim that "Walter" is a fraud, they trot out a doctor to reinforce the bogus ID, declare her unfit as a mother, and finally have her committed to a local psychopathic ward. Through it all, Collins, bolstered by the pastor and thousands of outraged Angelenos, refuses to sign a document that would exonerate the police for their egregious error. As for Walter, it’s only when the LAPD’s seemingly only honest detective (Michael Kelly) takes matters into his own hands that the grisly mystery of the child’s fate begins to be solved. That would have been a good place for the film to conclude, too. Unfortunately, it goes on for more than another half hour, with innumerable false endings that add nothing to the story and could just as easily have been summarized with a few sentences before the final credits. That flaw aside (and it’s a major one), Changeling is a powerful film, with a realistic period feel, a wonderfully muted vibe and color palette, and an understated score by Eastwood himself. --Sam Graham
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- Aspect Ratio : 2.40:1
- Is Discontinued By Manufacturer : No
- MPAA rating : R (Restricted)
- Product Dimensions : 0.5 x 5.27 x 6.81 inches; 3.2 ounces
- Item model number : 5072879
- Director : Clint Eastwood
- Media Format : Multiple Formats, Dolby, AC-3, Blu-ray, Color, NTSC, Dubbed, DTS Surround Sound, Widescreen, Subtitled
- Run time : 2 hours and 22 minutes
- Release date : February 17, 2009
- Actors : Angelina Jolie, John Malkovich, Jeffrey Donovan, Michael Kelly, Colm Feore
- Dubbed: : French
- Subtitles: : French, Spanish
- Language : English (DTS-HD Master Audio 5.1), French (DTS 5.1), Unqualified
- Studio : Universal Studios Home Entertainment
- ASIN : B001NFNFNA
- Number of discs : 1
- Best Sellers Rank: #33,472 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)
- #1,025 in Mystery & Thrillers (Movies & TV)
- #3,270 in Drama Blu-ray Discs
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Customers praise this well-made film based on a true story, particularly highlighting Angelina Jolie and John Malkovich's outstanding performances. The movie receives positive feedback for its visual quality, with one customer noting impressive period art direction, and customers find it heartwrenching and worth the price. The pacing receives mixed reviews, with several customers finding it slow at times.
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Customers praise the movie's quality, describing it as a well-made film and one of the best directed movies they've seen.
"...There is no happy ending to this story. But it's well worth watching, both for a look at the justice and legal system at the time, for the role of..." Read more
"Angelina Jolie, exceptional movie and acting. I have watched this movie three times and got mad every time. It never changes how women are treated...." Read more
"...This is a well acted, well crafted, and well directed film...." Read more
"...The movie was directed by Clint Eastwood and it is first-rate. Some of the scenes are upsetting to watch, but the movie itself is superb." Read more
Customers find the movie's story engaging and well-told, with several noting it's based on true events, though some mention it breaks their heart.
"...Great effort went into recreating the look, feel, and atmosphere of this long ago era, and all of this effort is not lost on this viewer as I..." Read more
"This is a true story about a child lost in the early 1900’s...." Read more
"...The choices Clint Eastwood makes, in terms of actors, subject matter, storytelling technique, music, pacing....all perfect....I understand Angelina..." Read more
"...But Hollywood must do a little "hollwooding". Otherwise an accurate portrait of a gruesome but touching, dramatic and heartbreaking factual story...." Read more
Customers praise the acting in the movie, particularly Angelina Jolie and John Malkovich's outstanding performances.
"Angelina Jolie, exceptional movie and acting. I have watched this movie three times and got mad every time. It never changes how women are treated...." Read more
"...Every actor was exceptional in their parts, right down to the little tyke who portrayed the doomed Walter Collins...." Read more
"Angelina gave a great performance and John Malcovich is always great!" Read more
"...Admirably directed by Eastwood, who shows that movies can be both entertaining and also embracing important social causes. "..." Read more
Customers describe the movie as a heartwrenching and moving film that evokes a range of emotions.
"...however, the movie is as compelling, gruelling, and, strangely, inspiring, showing not just a mother's but a woman's fight for justice...." Read more
"This movie had me crying, mad, heartbroken! Just wow! It's an amazing movie! Highly recommend!" Read more
"Other reviewers have complained that this movie is too long, too depressing, etc. Well, if you're looking for an uplifting movie, look elsewhere...." Read more
"...It is definitely inspiring and challenges people today to believe and never ever give up. Great movie..." Read more
Customers praise the performances in the movie, describing them as great and moving.
"...of actors, subject matter, storytelling technique, music, pacing....all perfect....I understand Angelina Jolie doesn't want to work with/be directed..." Read more
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Customers praise the visual quality of the film, noting its impressive look and great picture, with one customer highlighting its impeccable period art direction.
"...What he does is so subtle and unobtrusive that you don't even realize how much of what you are seeing/feeling is being guided/controlled by, one of..." Read more
"...Jolie is first rate, and so is John Malcovich in one of his rare sympathetic roles (he can play a non-detestable character given a chance)...." Read more
"...The look of the film is also impressive with it's impeccable period art direction and costume design...." Read more
"...Changeling does a good job of showing that it would have been like for one of those families with some plot twists, of course...." Read more
Customers find the movie worth the price and consider it a great buy.
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Customers have mixed opinions about the pacing of the movie, with several finding it slow at times and disturbing, while one customer notes it stays on track without slowing down.
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"...Film production for this 1930's is quite believable and the movie is nicely paced by Eastwood's direction." Read more
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- Reviewed in the United States on July 19, 2013Other reviewers have complained that this movie is too long, too depressing, etc. Well, if you're looking for an uplifting movie, look elsewhere. This isn't a feel-good movie.
But this movie is incredibly well-done and well worth watching! And the story itself is absolutely HORRIFYING. As another reviewer noted, if it were fiction, nobody would bother with it because the story seems too contrived. I did a bit a research on the case after watching the movie. It's not just "based on a true story" but IS a true story -- in every horrifying detail. Police corruption, murder, kidnapping, pedophilia, "mistaken" identity, forced institutionalization, etc. all culminate in one of the most OUTRAGEOUS injustices any American woman EVER suffered.
I finished the film feeling absolutely heartbroken and outraged on behalf of Christine Collins and what she endured. Could this really happen in America??
It was hard to watch Angelina Jolie play Christine's character. Other reviewers have said she crusaded for her son and brought down the LAPD. She did nothing of the sort. Her delay in reporting her son missing... Her passive acceptance in the beginning of a half-hearted investigation by the LAPD... Her actual "temporary" acceptance of an imposter child? My thought was "ARE YOU KIDDING ME??" Her initial insistence that he wasn't her child, that her son was still missing was gentle and ladylike, even timid, not "crusading" at all. Her manner was mostly passive and timid, which was INCREDIBLY irritating to watch. (Even though she's the victim, I wanted to slap her!)
But that's a comment on the story itself, not on the acting. The story is a product of the times in a case gone very, very wrong.
There is no happy ending to this story. But it's well worth watching, both for a look at the justice and legal system at the time, for the role of women in society, etc.
That ANY person or organization could give an imposter boy in place of a missing one and then dare to throw his mother in the loony bin when she said it was not her son... The injustice, cruelty and arrogance is ASTOUNDING!
Michelle
- Reviewed in the United States on December 7, 2023Angelina Jolie, exceptional movie and acting. I have watched this movie three times and got mad every time. It never changes how women are treated. I love all your movies, Angelina Jolie; you really put your heart and soul into them. And John Malkovich, I love your movies, too. You always make it look natural, and I enjoy watching your movies. And I enjoyed the other actors too. One of my Aunts was hurt and put in a mental facility that gave her shock treatments after her accident by her greedy husband, who took her money and a younger partner. My aunt was beautiful. She died in a facility. After the ill will, treatment and shock treatment instead of correct care, after the accident. It made her disabled for the rest of her life.
- Reviewed in the United States on March 23, 2009I have long been a fan of the Legendary Clint Eastwood and the beautiful and talented Angelina Jolie. "Changeling" has only deepened that admiration and respect. This story broke my heart as I sat transfixed for 142 soul-wrenching minutes. This is a well acted, well crafted, and well directed film. It is my understanding that the source material for the screenplay was meticulously researched and it shows. Great effort went into recreating the look, feel, and atmosphere of this long ago era, and all of this effort is not lost on this viewer as I deeply appreciate historical accuracy. Every actor was exceptional in their parts, right down to the little tyke who portrayed the doomed Walter Collins. I purchased this DVD on February 17, 2009, and I'm glad that I did. A truly great addition to any movie collection. Based on the true story of Christine Collins whose 9 year old son, Walter went missing on March 10, 1928. It was later learned that Walter Collins had been kidnapped, sexually assaulted and murdered by Gordon Stewart Northcott, a notorious pedophile and prolific serial killer. Northcott was convicted of killing 20 young boys and he was executed at San Quentin prison on October 2, 1930.
"CHANGELING" (2008) Starring: Angelina Jolie, John Malkovich, Colm Feore, Jeffrey Donovan, Jason Butler Harner, Eddie Alderson, Amy Ryan, and Gattlin Griffith as Walter Collins.
DIRECTED BY: Clint Eastwood
RUNTIME: 142 Minutes
RATING: R For violent and disturbing images, brief nudity, and language.
PRODUCED BY: Ron Howard and Brian Grazer for IMAGINE ENTERTAINMENT and Clint Eastwood.
SCREENPLAY BY: J.Michael Straczynski
GRADE: A+
SEE ALSO: The Wineville Chickencoop Murders, Sarah Louise Northcott, Sanford Wesley Clark, and Jesse Pomeroy
Recommended Reading: "Nothing is strange with you" The life and crimes of Gordon Stewart Northcott by James Jeffrey Paul
"Fiend" The shocking true story of America's youngest serial killer by Harold Schechter
"The Road out of Hell" by Anthony Flacco
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MURIELLE TRIVULCEReviewed in France on January 26, 2025
5.0 out of 5 stars Film poignant
Film poignant
Tire d’une histoire vraie je crois
On reste captive du debut a la fin
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S. P.Reviewed in Germany on May 20, 2025
5.0 out of 5 stars Ein Film, der nahe geht
Ein sehr berührender Film. Habe am Ende fast geweint.
- RobReviewed in the United Kingdom on February 6, 2009
5.0 out of 5 stars Takes its place amongst the first rank of Eastwood's work
Changeling is a gripping movie for adults - 'manna for grown ups' as one reviewer rightly called it. Angelina Jolie turns in a terrific performance as Christine Collins, a demure single mother in 1920's Los Angeles whose missing son becomes a rallying point for the oppressed citizens of LA, suffering under the boot of a ruthlessly corrupt police force and mayoralty.
But as Christine struggles with an impostor son that a disinterested LA police force has preposterously tried to fob her off with as her own there's a big twist when another young boy is arrested in a routine deportation case and does he have a story to tell. A tale so horrifying that it would instantly qualify as any parents worst nightmare. When I saw this film in the cinema the packed out audience gasped - literally gasped out loud - during the confession scene between this kid and the police officer.
Jolie has never been quite this good and though she stays commendably in character as a demure mother who doesn't want to make a fuss, she brings a fantastic larger than life movie star presence to her role that she seems able to turn on and off at will. She's a terrific actress in the body of a goddess and watching her evokes so much of the spirit of a Rita Hayworth or a Joan Crawford in their luminous prime. But she's not the only star here. One of the great pleasures of Changeling is watching so many unknown character actors given the chance to strut their stuff and, boy, do they take it. So take a bow Jason Butler Harner as Gordon Northcott, Eddie Alderson as Nothcott's in-fear-of-his-life nephew, Jeffrey Donovan as a pig-headed Oirish cop and Michael Kelly as seemingly the only honest policeman in LA. They're all fantastic.
The script is just as outstanding, moving effortlessly from one genre to another - part period crime thriller, part psycho ward drama, part serial killer movie, part courtroom procedural. It begins small and then expands to take in political corruption, the status of women in the 1920's, the way children and adults view the same event, and the satisfaction (or not) of capital punishment. What's most impressive is the way Clint Eastwood orchestrates all of this because Changeling shifts gears so smoothly that one remains completely transfixed, indeed amazed, throughout.
Changeling represents a notable development in Eastwood's evolution as a filmmaker. Never before has he handled such a sprawling, multi-stranded story with such ease or confidence.
There's also a real sense of anger as Eastwood leaves us in no doubt how he feels about the way Collins - and the other female victims of the pernicious Code 12 which allowed the police to toss anyone they disapproved of into the madhouse - were treated by the authorities. Indeed, the endless parade of true life stories in which police and social services are found to have victimised single mothers in order to cover up their own incompetence means that Changeling carries a genuine contemporary resonance as a cautionary tale.
Amazon's editorial review suggests the film goes on to long and sags in the final stretch. I couldn't disagree more. In fact I think this is one of the best edited movies I have seen in a long while. The multiple storylines and shifting emotional moods are so well captured by Joel Cox and Gary Roach's editing that they deserved an Oscar nomination in themselves. The technical aspects are also top notch throughout and how pleasing it is to see a period piece in which the sets and costumes never once overwhelm the characters or the story. Eastwood's lovely score is the icing on the cake.
Changeling was the first of two masterful Eastwood movies in 2008, the other being Gran Torino. Both come highly recommended for those hungering for movies the way they used to make 'em (and I mean that in the best possible sense).
- Anthony MarinelliReviewed in Canada on February 13, 2014
5.0 out of 5 stars Eastwood provides a masterly touch to source story of search for missing child
"A true story" the cove of this dvd tells us but can any filmed story be really true. All kinds of things are left out elements interposed or better yet superimposed..like a SUPERMAN trying to tell a story? There are many stories, told, about the past, in a day when many can sit around the table, talk to their parents, this story about a search for a male child, by a lady, going back to 1920's Los Angeles does not want to appear anachronistic. It needs to be filmed written, acted so that the viewer is involved like he is turning on a TV show..or modern drama, the contemporaneous feel should draw most people in, back to the 1920's the director has his work cut out for him..the hat..Ms Jolie wears it throughout like a patient..which she will soon be in amental ward, who is suffering from some
CANCER undergoing radiation therapy, she is not, but thats what her world makes of her, the story moves on. The changeling as a title was filmed in star trek, here in Canada in 1979(was successful as a Canadian film I saw it) now once again. It is really a being formed from composite beings into a super being..or defective, or as the elements coalesce, into something else than it originally was? Who that is in htis drama..near the end..we get a sense of how director Eastwood films this piece..going back to the 1934 film It Happenned One Night..a romantic drama..filmed at a studio where an Oscar did it some good. rather than the studio having an interest in this type of film, or the types of films they would make over the years..a poor studio..had a hard time surviving over the years..owned no movie theatres to play films...but as a poor studio..its films often dealt with persons maintaining dignity and morals..a sesnse of inner virtue as a reward in itself..which is very much the tale of this story? The boys episode seems like an OLiver twist type element..whre the director..veers over..with a bit of subjectivism allows the boy to give his story..the murders of the children..HERE 20..that they find..OLIVER TWIST like that artistic sense..later still the alleged criminal who killed the 20..we dont know whether he really had..fears hell..1930's character..the murderer appears as the person with no odd ideas about REMORSE..enters the moral world wanting to enter some future..the whole set up walking down the alley..being hung..tells what we do to so many that others consider riff raff..lesser than themselves...here Eastwood does a type of James CAGNEY type sympathetic portrait..many modern reviewers see this as oldish..superimposed..not real or genuine..you can find in his last film Trouble with the Curve..the reference to Cagney..here the characterization..filming..everything about it..many dont like the DRAWN out sequence..
The story begins..we have a "lady" or an idea of one portrayed by the lead actress as Ms Collins. 1920's Los Angeles. She at the start of the film wants to go to a Chaplin film, something like the KID. That may tell us where this story is going. Someone who wasnt to develop into an idea of a lady. Intuition/emotion/emotionalism..do we find her genine..she's very intuitive, sees all around her as cons, with the emotions do we find her emotional life genuine or a type of emotionalism, acting out a part? Genuine or the outer symptoms not connected to a deeper source..that helps us understand the police..the tale is about corruption..police..captains..city hall...the whole city..she is instiutionalized..she has not always been monagamous we get that sense about her past..1920's..her son is taken away..missing..dead..SHE EXPERIENCES ABSENCE..like an absent lover..when she relates to the child..she wants to restore the child..the family.unit she had the Chaplin film..lawsuits..cause is JUSTICE..not really.its her rights to be her own person...shje is diagnosed..if thats the right word.."cold aloof unemotional"..symptoms of emotions rather than genuine emotions, at the end of the film, she still feels for the child cap on..it gives us not in a preachy sense but here we have aperson bent on restoration..the lady of antiquity..trying our best. Much like a game of hide and seek..the child is there..taken from her..she always looks for him..though absent he always exists..the love continues to build..much as the mystic..keeps looking for god..god eludes him there and everywhere,,"search and ye shall find"..what better way to understan a lady who treats a little boy..who was murdered and treats him like a GOD..PEEK a BOO..intimate emotional love lives..GENUINE person..the film filmed from the perspectives of three persons..ms collins/boy/murderer..they all strive to be better than they at one time were..in that sense they are all hEROIC..an old kind of storytelling..the director ha ssome sympathy..rather than OBJECTIVY.shot a complex piece..thats what I see he will disagree I have written on his other films..in his commemorative large multi disc MOVIE SET..this is not included...corruption at city hall..these characters aspects..the church which tells of this corruption Presbyeterian..this is a side show..not actually gone into..just the later trial..the POLICE..in L.A..city of ANGELS..i recall the shooting of Ken OSMOND..photographed circulated in the world press..large city centers..the police are largely part of a corrupting process..social problem..the exact problems..i doubt these low persons on the totem pole..the problem is always elsewhere..as they relate to it..here the CAPTAIN is personified..thats what I found..i dont know how the city of LOs Angeles..or the family felt about my renderings of these historical persons,,..or Eastwood's attempt to capture..film a story..or three stories..
interesting bonus feature with director, Ms Jolie..as I've gone to some length to detail her film, as a burnt out type of character..becomes a lady or mother..complex part she tries to fit into Eastwood's period piece..we are told it was a role she
wanted to make..she has a social profile..has told us about her personal life..of 1920's characters..
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啓介Reviewed in Japan on August 19, 2020
4.0 out of 5 stars 面白い
ロードショーの頃から気になって、十数年。
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