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.
Production Warner Bros. Pictures; Village Roadshow Pictures (in association with); NPV Entertainment(in association with); Malpaso Productions;
Cast Names Sean Penn; Tim Robbins; Kevin Bacon; Laurence Fishburne; Marcia Gay Harden; Laura Linney; Kevin Chapman; Tom Guiry; Emmy Rossum; Spencer Treat Clark; Andrew Mackin; Adam Nelson; Robert Wahlberg; Jenny O'Hara; John Doman; Cameron Bowen; Jason Kelly; Connor Paolo; T. Bruce Page; Miles Herter; Cayden Boyd; Tori Davis; Jonathan Togo; Shawn Fitzgibbon; Will Lyman; Celine du Tertre; Ari Graynor; Zabeth Russell; Joe Stapleton; Susan Willis; José Ramón Rosario; Tom Kemp; Charley Broderick; Lonnie Farmer; Celeste Oliva; Bates Wilder; Douglass Bowen Flynn; Bill Thorpe; Matty Blake; Ken Cheeseman;
Box Office USD 90,135,191
Release Date 2003-10-03 (New York Film Festival) 2003-10-08 (limited) 2003-10-09 (Austin Film Festival) 2003-10-15
Genres Crime; Drama; Mystery;
MPAA Rating [?] Rated R for language and violence.