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162 reactions from 4 sources (Bluesky, Mastodon, TMDB reviews, Lemmy) · newest Oct 25, 2026 · last updated Oct 25, 2026 · How this works
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| Bluesky * | 32 | 14 | 99 |
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| TMDB reviews * | 4 | 0 | 0 |
| Lemmy * | 0 | 0 | 2 |
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Mystic River is a 2003 thriller drama mystery film, directed by Clint Eastwood, starring Sean Penn, Tim Robbins and Kevin Bacon.
- 140 people have posted about this film on Bluesky, Mastodon, TMDB reviews, Lemmy
- posts span Dec 17, 2018 to Oct 25, 2026
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60 of 162 · most liked firstremembering the time I was 12 and my every-second-weekend dad took me to the cinemas to see Mystic River and afterwards was just like ‘hmm sorry Luce! that isn’t what I thought that movie would be about’
neutral · AI labelView post →Mystic River (2003) 🎬🖤 Directed by Clint Eastwood
neutral · AI labelView post →Manchester by the Sea (2016) is a sad, depressing story that won two Oscars. Manchester by the Sea (2016) is a sad, depressing story that won two Oscars. I don’t know what it is, but film critics sure love their Massachusetts misery. The Fighter. Gone Baby Gone. Mystic River. Every few years, Hollywood returns to the Bay State for another dose of working-class tragedy. Is it Catholic guilt? The Red Sox? Weather that makes you wonder what sins you’re paying for? Or maybe those witches in…
neutral · AI labelView post →Four 📽 Faves: Tim Robbins Birthday Edition: 10/16/1958 Aw-shucks appeal, incredible intelligence. Generally underrated. 88 Bull Durham 92 Player 94 Hudsucker Proxy 94 Shawshank Redemption *Best Supp Oscar win for MYSTIC RIVER (03). *Best Directing Oscar nod for DEAD MAN WALKING (05). #filmsky 📽
neutral · AI labelView post →The mash-up comic book DJANGO/ZORRO is getting a movie adaptation at Sony, @deadline.com reports. Oscar winner Brian Helgeland (Mystic River, LA Confidential) will write the screenplay. In the tale, Django continues to track prey as a bounty hunter & develops a kinship with Zorro.
neutral · AI labelView post →[takes a drag off a candy cigarette] I don't like to go negative, but... -American Beauty. I will go to my grave spitting nails at this movie. -Quarantine. Possibly my most hated movie. Unpleasant nothing. -Summer's Blood. Ugly & hateful & GTFO. -Mystic River. MORE SEAN PENN OVERACTING, PLEASE.
negative · AI labelView post →And his performance was probably the best in this film. His portrayal of Col. Lockjaw will absolutely curl your hair. Loved him in Mystic River, too.
neutral · AI labelView post →Four 📽 Faves: Tim Robbins Birthday Edition: 10/16/1958 Aw-shucks appeal & incredible intelligence. 88 Bull Durham 92 Player 94 Hudsucker Proxy 94 Shawshank Redemption *Best Supporting Oscar win for MYSTIC RIVER (03). *Best Directing Oscar nod for DEAD MAN WALKING (05). #filmsky 📽
neutral · AI labelView post →#lastfourwatched #films2025 #letterboxdfriday #films #filmsky @letterboxd.social - Mystic River (2003), The History of Sound (2025), The Front Runner (2018), Sentimental Value (2025) ❤️🎥📽️🎬
neutral · AI labelView post →It's Friday. You know what that means. IS THAT A NEW EPISODE OF STAND N' WATCH IN THERE!? IS THAT A NEW EPISODE OF STAND N' WATCH IN THERE!? Yes it is and we're talking about Mystic River. Is that a Dad Movie in there!? Find out now Listen: linktr.ee/standnwatch
neutral · AI labelView post →My ex-husband produced Chris Penn’s last movie before he passed. Chris’ brother Sean Penn starred with Kevin in Mystic River. Would that be 3?
neutral · AI labelView post →#GnomonTV "Mystic River Pizza Sean Penn, Tim Robbins, Annabeth Gish, Julia Roberts, Lili Taylor Directors: Clint Eastwood and Donald Petrie Neo-noir romantic crime comedy-drama film.
neutral · AI labelView post →Also I think Jacob's Ladder is SUCH an incredible film that I have a weird bias when it comes to Robbins' other films even though so many of them are great (Mystic River.)
positive · AI labelView post →My August film stats: 20 watched - 16 new - 4 rewatched Best new watches: - Cannibal Mukbang - Mystic River Most Disappointing: - Backrooms Number of people Scott Adkins slo-mo kicked in the guts: Countless
positive · AI labelView post →Mystic River………. Marcia Gay Harden, you sealed it all up. Needed that 5-star film
positive · AI labelView post →I'm still mad that the worst LotR movie won on behalf of the whole trilogy and it was at the expense of Mystic River.
negative · AI labelView post →#Edwards2026MovieThingChallenge August 17 - movie or TV character played by Sean Penn that in NOT Milk or I am Sam Jimmy Markum - Mystic River (2003) #filmsky #moviesky
neutral · AI labelView post →I started with the first Kenzie/Gennaro book, A Drink Before the War, and more or less went in order through his stuff. If you don't want to make that big a commitment at first, and you don't want to just do Mystic River because you've seen the movie, then...Since We Fell or Small Mercies?
neutral · AI labelView post →Famous actor and musician: Footloose, Tremors, Frost/Nixon, Apollo 13, Mystic River, JFK, etc. He is a pretty prolific actor, but of course not everyone knows of every famous person out there. My favorite Kevin Bacon fact is the game ["Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon"](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kevin_Bacon#Six_Degrees_of_Kevin_Bacon). It appears to show up right in the comment below this one. My Kevin Bacon number is 3. My father is friend's with a bandmate in his son's band.
neutral · AI labelView post →Rewatching MYSTIC RIVER for the first time in, idk, twenty years. This is some good-ass middlebrow cinema. A lurid bummer of a plot, respectably muted direction, actors being EXTREMELY hammy. It’s as much of a warm blanket as a movie about a murdered teen can be.
positive · AI labelView post →I still really like Mystic River. It isn't the most fashionable film from 2003, but it is replete with things to my taste: Eastwood's plaintive piano score with echoes of Angelo Badalamenti. Eli Wallach one scene cameo. Tom Stern's shadowy cinematography. And, yes, Sean Penn's explosive performance.
positive · AI labelView post →I wish that legacy Oscar logic worked in reverse. Like “yeah Sean Penn is undeniably great in OBAA, but you know what? Let’s just go ahead and attribute his Mystic River win to this way better movie instead.”
positive · AI labelView post →Mystic River (2003) Did this Clint Eastwood film deserve Oscar wins for Sean Penn & Tim Robbins? Joining me to discuss that film year: @moviesanduspod.bsky.social #Movies #FilmSky
neutral · AI labelView post →Massively overrated. Million dollar baby is ass and Mystic River the book is miles better than the movie.
negative · AI labelView post →Yesterday’s film was Eastwood’s tragic meditation on vigilanteism Mystic River (2003) A study of how grief, guilt and masculine pride twist the human need for justice into selfdestruction What begins as a child’s abduction becomes a cycle of vengeance so consuming that innocence becomes suspicious
neutral · AI labelView post →Mystic River [84] is a Metacritic Must-See ($4 VOD): www.metacritic.com/movie/mystic... #11pmspecial "A haunted thriller of disturbing power." - David Ansen, Newsweek
neutral · AI labelView post →I finished reading MYSTIC RIVER today and thought it was really good. Was hoping to find the movie adaptation streaming, but no luck. Then I discovered I own it on DVD (cheap pickup from the pawnshop) and never got around to it, so hoping to give it a watch this weekend.
positive · AI labelView post →Name a film everyone loves except you. Mystic River (2003)
negative · AI labelView post →My ★★★★ review of Mystic River on Letterboxd boxd.it/8Idal5
positive · AI labelView post →came up with an idea for a spoof movie about the city of Boston. thinking of calling it "Good Will Hunting for Boondock Saints by the Mystic River in The Town where The Departed is Gone Baby Gone."
neutral · AI labelView post →Boston film production didn’t pick up for a year. Eastwood bringing Mystic River to film in the area got it started again but even after that it was sluggish for some time. 
neutral · AI labelView post →Mystic River (2/10) Movie CLIP ⚡ Is That My Daughter? (2003) HD Moveiclips www.youtube.com/watch?v=RYlK...
neutral · AI labelView post →#AprilMovieChallenge #Moviesky #Filmsky 21. Grocery store in a movie Mystic River
neutral · AI labelView post →But it’s a Dennis Lehane novel that gave us this movie. Ditto for Clint Eastwood’s brilliant Mystic River with Sean Penn. We gotta keep reading, people. Without good books, we’ll never have amazing movies.
neutral · AI labelView post →Does the first ten minutes of Mystic River count as a horror movie?
neutral · AI labelView post →Question 9: "Fear is the path to the dark side. Fear leads to anger. Anger leads to hate. Hate leads to suffering." comes from which film? The man in the iron mask From dusk till dawn Star Wars: The Phantom Menace Mystic River #scottstrivia
neutral · AI labelView post →#LetterboxdFriday #LastFourWatched Only one: #MysticRiver ✨💜 letterboxd.com/film/mystic-...
neutral · AI labelView post →Glad you dug it…when it comes to Big Twist books, it doesn’t get much twistier than that one. As far as the film, it’s an entertaining flick and well worth your time. Btw, if you want more Lehane, I’d recommend THE DROP, MYSTIC RIVER, and SINCE WE FELL, the latter of which is also a bit twisty.
positive · AI labelView post →I remember people talking so highly of a movie back in 03. Then I watched it and I hated it. I confused Mystic River with Dreamcatcher...
negative · AI labelView post →Happy 66th Birthday To Sean Penn Sean Justin Penn (Born August 17, 1960) Is An American Actor And Film Director. He Has Won Academy Awards For His Roles In The Mystery Drama Mystic River (2003) And The Biopic Milk (2008). Penn Began His Acting Career In Television, With A Brief Appearance In
neutral · AI labelView post →If a Bostonian tells you their favorite movie is The Departed or Mystic River, you can completely discount their opinions about everything 👌
neutral · AI labelView post →What is your discomfort movie? A movie you saw one time and said okay, never again? Requiem For A Dream Mystic River El Topo Hollow Man Anything by Quentin Tarantino, except Jackie Brown
neutral · AI labelView post →I have finished the first book of my Adaptations reading list. Mystic River is a solid read and I'm curious if Clint Eastwood's film will stick the landing or miss the very obvious points the book is making. Betting on the latter tbh.
neutral · AI labelView post →Can I think that Mystic River is a vastly superior film but still fits this classification?
neutral · AI labelView post →Question 8: "Tonight, we dine in Hell" is a quote from which film? Batman Begins Lord of the Rings:Fellowship of the Ring Mystic River 300 #scottstrivia
neutral · AI labelView post →Happy 65th Birthday To Sean Penn Sean Justin Penn (Born August 17, 1960) Is An American Actor And Film Director. He Has Won Academy Awards For His Roles In The Mystery Drama Mystic River (2003) And The Biopic Milk (2008). Penn Began His Acting Career In Television, With A Brief Appearance
neutral · AI labelView post →That Graboid movie is a fun watch. Bacon has also been in some great movies where he was a co-star. A Few Good Men Mystic River Apollo 13 and the disturbing, Sleepers
neutral · AI labelView post →Not sure of the one great film, but my fave is Mystic River with Black Mass coming in behind.
positive · AI labelView post →A very stupid thing that has kept making me laugh lately is a counterstrike streamer who is very vocal about not seeing pretty much any movie ever but also just discovered he loves Mystic River because he saw it on a plane on the way back from the CS Austin major.
neutral · AI labelView post →I'm going to swap out Mystic River for Inherent Vice (2014), which is just a film I enjoy very much, whether it's one of the "best" in the last 25 years or not. It's a film (and a book) I wish I'd written. In fact, I'm trying to write my own pot-smoking P.I. beach bum novel right now.
positive · AI labelView post →#GnomonTV "Mystic River Pizza Sean Penn, Tim Robbins, Annabeth Gish, Julia Roberts, Lili Taylor Directors: Clint Eastwood and Donald Petrie Neo-noir romantic crime comedy-drama film. youtube.com/watch?v=W7Nk... youtube.com/watch?v=muLv... gnomonchronicles.com/wiki/Mystic_...
neutral · AI labelView post →As difficult as the subject matter is in Mystic River, it's still a movie that captures me immediately from the opening shots of the kids playing street hockey. It's a film you feel in your bones, and it begins an incredible 5 year run by Clint Eastwood that any director would envy. #filmsky
positive · AI labelView post →You are unfortunately right. The opening scenes of the movie Mystic River (where the evil child abuser with the big car doesn't even have to show a badge - just handcuffs hanging from his belt) is a stark reminder of how much we allow ourselves to be pushed around by people in (presumed) authority
neutral · AI labelView post →Hit or miss for sure. The movie 15:17 to Paris I still don’t get. Not a good movie and doesn’t feel like a Clint movie at all. Other than a few, agreed that from Mystic River on, been a great ride.
neutral · AI labelView post →I feel like playing along for old time's sake, so here are my top 5 heartbreaking movies: 5. Mystic River 4. The Missing 3. Flame & Citron 2. Grave of the Fireflies 1. The Normal Heart
neutral · AI labelView post →Based on the trailer, JUROR #2 is exactly the kind of small, tightly constructed drama at which Clint Eastwood excels. It immediately made me want to see the movie. (See: True Crime, Mystic River, A Perfect World, among others)
neutral · AI labelView post →I hated Mystic River more than any other movie I've ever watched.
negative · AI labelView post →Just got done watching ‘Mystic River’ and thanks tiktok movie blogger for putting me on to it. I gotta start watching way more movies.
positive · AI labelView post →Sick-week mostly-Boston crime-film playlist: The Town The Friends of Eddie Coyle The Departed The French Connection The Long Goodbye Mystic River Boondock Saints* (*turned it off after 30m, it's terrible)
neutral · AI labelView post →That rare movie that gets within touching distance of a great book. Mystic River.
positive · AI labelView post →
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