Mystic River
Mystic River is a 2003 American neo-noir mystery drama film directed, co-produced, and scored by Clint Eastwood. Based on Dennis Lehane’s 2001 novel of the same name, it features a screenplay by Brian Helgeland and stars Sean Penn, Tim Robbins, and Kevin Bacon, alongside Laurence Fishburne, Marcia Gay Harden, and Laura Linney. The film follows three childhood friends from a working-class Boston neighborhood who are reunited by the investigation of a brutal murder involving one of their daughters.
Plot
In 1975, three childhood friends—Jimmy Markum, Sean Devine, and Dave Boyle—are playing on a Boston street in their Irish-American neighborhood when two predators posing as police officers abduct Dave. He is sexually assaulted for four days before managing to escape. One abductor dies before he can be prosecuted, and the other dies by suicide in prison. The trauma leaves Dave deeply scarred.