The trailer for Changeling, one of Clint Eastwood’s two Oscar bids this year, has just made its way online. The film stars Angelina Jolie as a woman whose son goes missing in 1920s Los Angeles. The police return the wrong child and the woman is thrown into an insane asylum for disagreeing with the LAPD. When it seems that her real son has been murdered by a child serial killer and the child returned admits to fraud, she takes her case to the city council and takes down the mayor, the police chief and several corrupt officers, concurrently sparking changes in the insanity legislation.
The film premiered at Cannes to middle to high marks and Jolie is certain to be in consideration for an Oscar nom as well as Eastwood for director and the film for Best Picture. I still think it is too early to give any guarantees, but check out the trailer and see what you think.
Changeling hits theaters on October 24 and Eastwood’s other Oscar-bid, Gran Torino, arrives in theaters in December.
