Gran Torino

Blu-ray
Contains 2 Discs
UPC 883929033249
ISBN 1419872583
Retail $35.99
Includes Digital Copy
Released 6/9/09

Widescreen DVD
UPC 883929033164
ISBN 1419872575
Retail $19.96
Released 9/18/09

Full Screen DVD
UPC 883929033171
ISBN 1419872567
Retail $19.96
Released 9/18/09

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Gran Torino

In Theaters: December 12, 2008
On Video/DVD: June 9, 2009
Starring: Clint Eastwood
Bee Vang
Ahney Her
Christopher Carley
John Carroll Lynch
Geraldine Hughes
Dreama Walker
Brian Haley
Brian Howe
Austin Douglas Smith
Doua Moua
Cory Hardrict
Director: Clint Eastwood
Genre: Action
Drama
Synopsis: Retired auto worker Walt Kowalski fills his days with home repair, beer, and monthly trips to the barber. Though his late wife's final wish was for him to take confession, for Walt--an embittered veteran of the Korean War who keeps his M-1 rifle cleaned and ready--there's nothing to confess. And no one he trusts enough to confess to other than his dog, Daisy.

The people he once called his neighbors have all moved or passed away, replaced by the Hmong immigrants he despises. Resentful of virtually everything he sees--the drooping eaves, overgrown lawns and the foreign faces surrounding him; the aimless gangs of Hmong, Latino and African American teenagers who all think the neighborhood belongs to them; the callow strangers his children have grown up to be--Walt is just waiting out the rest of his life.

Until the night someone tries to steal his Gran Torino.

Still gleaming as it did the day Walt himself helped roll it off the assembly line decades ago, the Gran Torino brings his shy teenaged neighbor Thao (Bee Vang) into his life when Hmong gang-bangers pressure the boy into trying to steal it.

But Walt stands in the way of both the heist and the gang, making him the reluctant hero of the neighborhood--especially to Thao's mother and older sister, Sue (Ahney Her), who insist that Thao work for Walt as a way to make amends. Though he initially wants nothing to do with these people, Walt eventually gives in and puts the boy to work fixing up the neighborhood, setting into motion an unlikely friendship that will change both their lives.

Through Thao and his family's unrelenting kindness, Walt eventually comes to understand certain truths about the people next door. And about himself. These people--provincial refugees from a cruel past--have more in common with Walt than he has with his own family, and reveal to him parts of his soul that have been walled off since the war...like the Gran Torino preserved in the shadows of his garage.
Rating: R for language throughout, and some violence
Box Office: $148.1 Million
Studio: Warner Bros.

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