Changeling

2008 · 2h 22m · 7.6

Crime, Drama, Mystery

Los Angeles, 1928. When single mother Christine Collins leaves for work, her son vanishes without a trace. Five months later, the police reunite mother and son. But when Christine suspects that the boy returned to her isn't her child, her quest for truth exposes a world of corruption.

Clint Eastwood

Angelina Jolie, John Malkovich, Jeffrey Donovan, Michael Kelly, Colm Feore, Jason Butler Harner, Amy Ryan, Geoff Pierson, Denis O'Hare, Frank Wood

biography, based on true story, clergyman, child in peril, police corruption, los angeles, california, single mother, street urchin, missing child, mental asylum, mental hospital, shock treatment, 1920s, missing son, mother son relationship, desperate woman, disbelieving cop, child abduction, telephone switchboard operator, female hysteria