The 46-year-old won a best supporting actor Academy Award in 2004 for Mystic River.

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Like Lehane's "Mystic River, " it involves the abuse and abduction of a child (before he became a full-time writer, Lehane worked as a counselor with abused children).

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Although it's directed by a proxy (Robert Lorenz was assistant director on "Million Dollar Baby, " "Mystic River" and "Space Cowboys" among others), "Trouble With the Curve" has all the hallmarks of an Eastwood movie in his folksiest mood.

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Clint Eastwood and Martin Scorsese worked hard to bring Boston to life in "Mystic River" and "The Departed, " respectively, but "Gone Baby Gone" feels more intimately grounded in the dirty streets and scummy bars, and the aggressive pride that comes with them.

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Then the white barrels, the wooded hills on the far bank of the river, and beyond the hills the other side of Connecticut, the trip to the whaling ship at Mystic Seaport, somewhere out there Cape Cod, the Atlantic Ocean, Africa.

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