Actor Clint Eastwood (1930)

By 1979, Texan rodeo star Mike Milo has retired due to a severe back injury. The following year, his former boss Howard Polk hires him to travel to Mexico City and bring back Howard’s 13-year-old son, Rafo. He agrees and upon entering Mexico, he meets the boy’s mother, Leta, who tells him that Rafo has turned to a life of crime, participating in cockfights with a rooster named Macho. Soon after, Mike finds Rafo participating in a cockfight that is interrupted by a police raid. After the police depart, Mike tells Rafo that his father wants to see him. Intrigued, Rafo agrees to go with Mike back to Texas and leaves to pack his stuff. A ...

In 2005 in Peoria, Illinois, Earl misses his daughter Iris’ wedding in order to attend an Horticultural awards ceremony that results in his estrangement from Iris and his eventual divorce from his wife Mary. Twelve years later, Earl’s house is foreclosed on by the bank and the homeless 80 year old Earl visits his granddaughter Ginny in order to attend her wedding rehearsal. While there he is spotted by a member of a drug cartel who recognizes the use Earl would have for the cartel as a mule. Earl accepts the offer and becomes a “mule” transporting cocaine through Illinois for a Mexican drug cartel. Facing little suspicion due ...

An aging Atlanta Braves baseball scout, Gus Lobel, is given one last assignment to engage with scouting and prove his value to the organization, who views him as unable to adapt to changes within the game, especially advanced statistical analysis. His boss and friend Pete does not want to see him let go, but he must contend with an ambitious junior executive, Phillip Sanderson, who is trying to get a promotion to the team’s general manager post and wants Gus fired as an obstacle to his own baseball philosophy and methods. Pete suspects Gus is hiding problems with his health, so against Gus’s wishes, Pete contacts Gus’s daughter ...

Cantankerous, bigoted Korean War veteran and retired Ford factory worker Walt Kowalski is widowed after 50 years of marriage. His aging neighborhood in Highland Park in Metro Detroit was formerly populated by working-class white families but has become filled with gang violence and poor southeast Asian immigrants, including Walt’s next-door neighbors, the Vang Lor family. Adding to his isolation, Walt is emotionally detached from his family; he rejects his son’s suggestion he move to a retirement community and lives alone with his elderly Labrador, Daisy. A chronic tobacco user, Walt suffers from coughing fits, occasionally with blood, which he conceals from his family. ...

Margaret “Maggie” Fitzgerald, a waitress from the Ozarks, shows up at the Hit Pit, a rundown Los Angeles gym owned and operated by Frankie Dunn. Dunn is a cantankerous Irish-American trainer, revealed to be estranged by his own daughter. Maggie asks Frankie to train her, but he refuses as he does not train women and she is too old to begin a boxing career. Eddie “Scrap-Iron” Dupris, Frankie’s friend and employee — the film’s narrator — encourages and helps Maggie. Frankie’s prize prospect, “Big Willie” Little, signs with successful manager Mickey Mack after becoming impatient with Frankie rejecting offers for a championship bout. ...

During a federal investigation into a local homicide, FBI Special Agent Terry McCaleb goes outside to address the media, but spots the so-called “code murderer” in the crowd. He chases the man and wounds him, but the chase ends when McCaleb suffers a heart attack. Retired, McCaleb lives in a houseboat on the Long Beach bay. He receives a second chance at life with a heart transplant. He is approached by Graciella Rivers; her sister, Gloria, was murdered during a robbery and she asks him to solve the case. He discovers that the heart transplanted into him was Gloria’s. He has nightmares of the robbery during which Gloria was murdered.

In 1958, two U.S. Air Force pilots and aspiring astronauts, William “Hawk” Hawkins and Frank Corvin, are testing a modified Bell X-2 when Hawk decides to break a height record. The plane stalls and they are forced to eject, narrowly missing a Boeing B-50 Superfortress flying with navigator “Tank” Sullivan. On the ground, Frank punches Hawk, but their fight is broken up by flight engineer Jerry O’Neill. Their boss, Bob Gerson, chastises Hawk, before taking them to a press conference, where he announces that the newly created NASA, rather than the USAF, will be conducting space flight tests. In the present day, NASA is ...

Steve Everett, an Oakland journalist recovering from alcoholism, is assigned to cover the execution of convicted murderer Frank Beechum following the death of Everett’s colleague, Michelle Ziegler, who had originally been assigned to the story. Everett investigates the background to the case and comes to suspect that Beechum has been wrongly convicted of murdering Amy Wilson. He gets permission from his editor’s boss to investigate, and is told that the top editor would call the Governor, and that would do the job, if Everett gets hard proof. He thus has a little over 12 hours to confirm his hunch and save Beechum. Everett interviews a ...

Master thief Luther Whitney breaks into the mansion of billionaire Walter Sullivan, but is forced to hide upon the arrival of Sullivan’s wife Christy, on a drunken rendezvous with Alan Richmond, the President of the United States. Hidden behind the bedroom vault’s one-way mirror, Whitney watches in horror as Richmond becomes sexually violent; Christy, in self-defense, wounds his arm with a letter opener. Richmond screams for help, and Secret Service agents Bill Burton and Tim Collin burst in, see Christy about to stab the President, and fatally shoot her. Chief of Staff Gloria Russell arrives, and they stage the scene to look like a ...

In the present, adult siblings Michael and Carolyn Johnson arrive at their recently deceased mother, Francesca’s Iowa farmhouse to settle her estate. They are shocked upon learning that Francesca requested to be cremated and her ashes scattered from Roseman Covered Bridge, rather than burial next to her late husband, Richard. Michael initially refuses, but while he and Carolyn look through the safe deposit box, they discover an envelope containing photographs, letters, and a key. The photos are of Francesca taken at the Holliwell Covered Bridge and the letters are from a man named Robert Kincaid. The key is to Francesca’s locked hope ...

Secret Service agents Frank Horrigan and Al D’Andrea meet with members of a counterfeiting group at a marina. The group’s leader, Mendoza, tells Horrigan that he has identified D’Andrea as an undercover agent, and forces him to prove his loyalty by putting a gun to D’Andrea’s head and pulling the trigger. When the gun just clicks, Horrigan then shoots and kills Mendoza’s men, identifies himself as an agent, and arrests Mendoza. Horrigan investigates a complaint from a landlady about an apartment’s absent tenant, Joseph McCrawley. He finds a collage of photographs and newspaper articles on famous assassinations, a model-building magazine, and a ...

In 1963 Texas, convicts Robert “Butch” Haynes and Terry Pugh escape from the state penitentiary in Huntsville. Fleeing, Pugh stumbles into a house where eight-year-old Phillip Perry lives with his devout Jehovah’s Witness mother and two sisters. Butch follows, and hits Pugh to make him stop molesting the mother. Needing a hostage to aid their escape, Butch grabs the boy, who meekly accompanies them. The trio’s journey soon hits an unpleasant note as Butch kills Terry, following the latter’s attempt to harm the child. With his partner out of the way, the convict and his young victim take to the Texas highway in an attempt to flee from the pursuing ...

In 1881, in Big Whiskey, Wyoming, a cowboy—Quick Mike—slashes prostitute Delilah Fitzgerald’s face with a knife, permanently disfiguring her, after she laughs at Quick Mike’s small penis. As punishment, local sheriff “Little Bill” Daggett orders Mike and his associate who was with him at the brothel, David “Davey” Bunting, to turn over several of their horses to her employer, Skinny DuBois, for his loss of revenue. Outraged, the prostitutes offer a $1,000 bounty for the cowboys’ deaths. In Hodgeman County, Kansas, a boastful young man calling himself the “Schofield Kid” visits Will Munny’s hog farm, claiming to be an ...

White Hunter Black Heart is a 1990 American adventure drama film produced, directed by, and starring Clint Eastwood and based on the 1953 book of the same name by Peter Viertel. In the early 1950s, world-renowned film-maker John Wilson travels to Africa for his next film, bringing with him a young writer chum named Pete Verrill. Part of his travel plans include hunting elephants and other game, which he prioritizes ahead of making the film. This leads to a conflict between the men on several levels, most notably over the idea of killing such a grand animal for sport. Wilson ...

Nick Pulovski and his partner are assigned to the case of taking down the criminal empire of a German felon, Strom, who engages in grand theft auto for his chop shop operations. During an encounter with Strom and his men, who are loading a semi-trailer truck with stolen cars, Pulovski’s partner is shot dead by Strom. Nick, despite efforts to catch the criminals on the highway, ends up losing them and is subsequently taken off the case by Lt. Raymond Garcia, who assigns him a new partner, David Ackerman, a rookie cop only recently promoted to detective. Against orders, Nick continues investigating Strom’s gang and dealing with ...

A white supremacist group is chasing Lou Ann, whose husband Roy is a member. She has inadvertently taken counterfeit money from them by running away with his car (the pink Cadillac), which held the supremacists’ stash. Tommy Nowak is a skip-tracer whose speciality is dressing up in disguises, such as a rodeo clown, to fool whomever he is after. Tommy takes on the job of finding Lou Ann because she skipped bail. When he finally finds her in Reno, Nevada, Tommy slowly becomes enamored. Roy and his gang kidnap her baby, whom Lou Ann has left with her sister, so Tommy decides to help Lou Ann get the baby back instead of turning her in. While ...

Inspector Harry Callahan’s testimony against crime lord Lou Janero puts the mobster in prison. Callahan becomes famous and the target of Janero’s men as well as the news media, both of which he dislikes. After Callahan kills four hit men during an ambush, the SFPD assigns Al Quan as his partner; Callahan advises him to get a bulletproof vest, as his partners often get killed. The pair investigate the fatal heroin overdose of rock singer Johnny Squares, found in his trailer during filming of a music video directed by Peter Swan at the Port of San Francisco. Squares’ death was not a typical overdose, but actually murder. Dean ...

In 1983, Gunnery Sergeant Thomas Highway is nearing mandatory retirement from the Marine Corps. He finagles a transfer back to his old Marine unit, 2nd Reconnaissance Battalion, Second Marine Division. On the bus trip to his new assignment, he meets fellow passenger “Stitch” Jones, a wannabe rock musician who borrows money from Highway for a meal at a rest stop and then steals his bus ticket, leaving him stranded. When Highway finally arrives at the base, more bad news awaits. His new commanding officer, Major Malcolm Powers, sees Highway as an anachronism, and assigns him to shape up the Reconnaissance Platoon that is assigned to the ...

Outside the snowy mountain town of LaHood, California, armed men working for mining baron Coy LaHood destroy the camp of independent prospectors and their families. One of them shoots a dog belonging to 14-year-old Megan Wheeler. After burying her dog in the woods, she prays, asking God for deliverance, “If You don’t help us, we’re all going to die. Please, just one miracle.” Thunder rolls, and a lone horseman astride a fine, pale horse, appears, riding easily but with inexorable purpose toward Carbon Valley. Megan’s mother, Sarah, is being courted by Hull Barret, who stepped in when Megan’s father abandoned them. ...

A young woman walking home from her birthday party is stalked by a man in distinctive sneakers. After she drops one of her presents, a police officer offers to escort her to her front door. The camera reveals that the policeman is wearing the same sneakers as the stalker. The next day, divorced New Orleans police detective Wes Block is playing football with his daughters Penny and Amanda. They take in a stray dog, adding to the several strays they have already taken in. As the family gets ready to go to a Saints game, Block is summoned to a crime scene, forcing him to break his plans with his daughters. The young woman has been strangled in her bed. ...