Mystic River (2003) Sean Penn Jimmy Markum Kevin Bacon Sean Devine Laurence Fishburne Whitey Powers Tim Robbins Dave Boyle Marcia Gay Harden Celeste Boyle Laura Linney Annabeth Markum Emmy Rossum Katie Markum Kevin Chapman Val Savage Thomas Guiry Brendan Harris Spencer Treat Clark Silent Ray Harris Andrew Mackintosh John O'Shea Adam Nelson Nick Savage Robert Wahlberg Kevin Savage Jenny O'Hara Esther Harris Matt Blake Cop in Park Cameron Bowen Young Dave Cayden Boyd Michael Boyle Charles Broderick Medical Examiner Ken Cheeseman Dave's Friend in Bar Tori Davis (II) Lauren Devine Thomas Derrah Headstone Salesman John Doman Driver Celine du Tertre Nadine Markum Directed by: Clint Eastwood Produced by: Bruce Berman, Clint Eastwood, Robert Lorenz When they were kids growing up together in a rough section of Boston, Jimmy Markum, Dave Boyle and Sean Devine spent their days playing stickball on the street, the way most boys did in their blue-collar neighborhood of East Buckingham. Nothing much out of the ordinary ever happened, until a moment's decision drastically altered the course of each of their lives forever. Twenty-five years later, the three find themselves thrust back together by another tragic event-- the murder of Jimmy's 19-year-old daughter. Now a cop, Sean is assigned to the case and he and his partner are charged with unraveling the seemingly senseless crime. In the wake of the sudden and terrible loss of his child, Jimmy's mind becomes consumed with revenge--and his own plans to find the killer. Caught up in the maelstrom is Dave, now a lost and broken man fighting to keep his demons at bay. As the investigation creeps closer to home, his wife Celeste becomes consumed by suspicion and fear, while Jimmy's wife, Annabeth, draws her family tighter together in order to weather the storm. ========== Childhood friends Jimmy Markum, Sean Devine and Dave Boyle reunite following the death of Jimmy's oldest daughter, Katie. Sean's a police detective on the case, gathering difficult and disturbing evidence; he's also tasked with handling Jimmy's rage and need for retribution. ========== During a summer in 1975, Dave Boyle and two friends, Jimmy and Sean, are playing on a sidewalk in Boston when Dave is abducted by two men and subjected to sexual abuse over a period of several days. Eventually escaping, but haunted into adulthood by his trauma, Dave becomes a primary suspect when Jimmy's daughter, Katie, is found murdered. Sean, assigned to investigate the crime, finds himself facing both demons from the past and demons in the present as the circumstances surrounding Katie's death are uncovered. ========== Summer, 1975: in a tight blue-collar Boston neighborhood, three kids are playing when one is abducted and sexually abused for several days. Jump ahead: the victim, Dave, is haunted by memories and protective of his own son. Jimmy's an ex-con, father of three. Sean is a homicide detective, estranged from his pregnant wife. When Jimmy's teen daughter dies, Sean investigates, Dave's a suspect, and Jimmy vows to find the killer before the cops. The dead girl has a boyfriend whose long-missing father has a history with Jimmy. The boyfriend's a suspect, and when ballistics turns up a link to a gun owned by the young man's father, the case breaks. In the background, wives move events along.