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Gran Torino; The Day the Earth Stood Still

No one makes movies like Gran Torino any more, and more's the pity. Clint Eastwood is the director, and the star, and the film's concerned with honor and atonement, with rough justice and the family of man... "Everything will be explained," a government goon tells Jennifer Connelly's beautiful exobiologist in The Day the Earth Stood Still. A space ship has just landed, and she's urgently needed to make nice with the occupants...

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By Joe Morgenstern • Dec 13, 2008 • 4m Listen

No one makes movies like Gran Torino any more, and more's the pity. Clint Eastwood is the director, and the star, and the film's concerned with honor and atonement, with rough justice and the family of man...

"Everything will be explained," a government goon tells Jennifer Connelly's beautiful exobiologist in The Day the Earth Stood Still. A space ship has just landed, and she's urgently needed to make nice with the occupants...

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