Gran Torino Review

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This movie is directed by, produced by and stars Clint Eastwood. He is a recent widower living in a rapidly deteriorating working class neighborhood. His neighbors are immigrants from Cambodia and Laos and he has a hard time accepting the change. Right next door is a family with a mother, grandmother and two teenage kids, a boy and a girl. The boy is having trouble with the local gang and is threatened into trying to steal Eastwood's prize 1972 Gran Torino. The attempt fails and the boy's mother forces her son to work for Eastwood. While hesitant at first he soon puts the boy to work cleaning up the neighborhood and along the way a friendship evolves. Eastwood however, knows that the gang will never leave this family alone and comes up with a plan to save his new found friend. This film is full of harsh language, but it is a very good movie. While not for the faint of heart this is a film worth seeing.