Film

Gran Torino 2008

Directed by Clint Eastwood

  • Drama
  • 116 min
  • R

Get off my lawn.

Disgruntled Korean War veteran Walt Kowalski sets out to reform his neighbor, Thao Lor, a Hmong teenager who tried to steal Kowalski's prized possession: a 1972 Gran Torino.

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  • Sexual violence

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Classical in form, earnest, contemporary and grave.

  • classical in formformally daring
  • earnestironic
  • contemporarynostalgic
  • gravecomic
  • character-ledplot-driven

Who loves it, who doesn't

The ProvocateurThe Provocateur: loved by 77The EmpathThe Empath: loved by 55The Prestige HunterThe Prestige Hunter: loved by 44The IronistThe Ironist: loved by 44The Genre DevoteeThe Genre Devotee: loved by 22The FormalistThe Formalist: loved by 22The CartographerThe Cartographer: loved by 22The SincereThe Sincere: loved by 22loved (4★+)disliked (2.5★ or less)

46 profiled raters. Loved most by The Provocateurs; disliked most by The Comfort Seekers.

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