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Christine Collins' prayers are met when her kidnapped son is returned. But amidst the frenzy of the photo-op reunion, she realizes this child is not hers. Facing corrupt police and a skeptical public, she desperately hunts for answers, only to be confronted by a truth that will change her forever.

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MPAA Rating: R (for some violent and disturbing content, and language)

ANGELINA JOLIE (Christine Collins) She is a Goodwill Ambassador for the UN Refugee Agency Jolie and Brad Pitt have three adopted children, Maddox, Pax, and Zahara, as well as three biological children, Shiloh, Knox, and Vivienne. She has promoted humanitarian causes throughout the world

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JOHN MALKOVICH (Reverend Gustav Briegleb) Politically, he has described himself as a Libertarian He is an ardent supporter of the death penalty Quoted as saying: “I hate what I consider (Jesus’) vile anti-semitism”

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JEFFREY DONOVAN (Captain J.J. Jones) Stars as Michael Westen in the hit TV original series Burn Notice Starred as Clay Driscoll in the film Believe in Me, an adaptation of the young-adult novel “Brief Garland”

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CLINT EASTWOOD (Directed by/Produced by/Music by) He best known for his tough guy, anti-hero acting roles Born a very large baby at over 14 pounds and still holds the hospital's record His philosophy is "Everyone leaves everyone else alone"

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J. MICHAEL STRACZYNSKI(Screenplay by) Spent the next 14 years as a journalist for Los Angeles Times, San Diego Magazine, et al He also writes for Marvel Comics, including The Amazing Spider-Man, Fantastic Four, Thor, Bullet Points, Dream Police and The Book of Lost Souls

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Recalls the screenwriter: “A source I had at City Hall called one day and said they were burning old records and that there was something I should take a look at before they put it into the incinerator. So I zoomed down to City Hall, and they had a transcript of a City Council welfare hearing in the case of Christine Collins. I began reading the testimony and thought, ‘This can’t actually have happened. This has got to be a mistake.’ But it was enough for me to get hooked before the book went into the fire.”

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Los Angeles, March 1928: On a beautiful Saturday morning in a working-class suburb, single mother Christine Collins says goodbye to her nine-year-old son, Walter, and leaves for her job as a telephone operator. But when Christine returns to their modest home, she is confronted with every parent’s worst nightmare: her son has vanished.

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An exhaustive and fruitless search ensues, but Walter has disappeared without a trace…until five months later, when a child—claiming to be her boy—is returned by police who are eager to bask in the public-relations coup of reuniting mother and child. Dazed by the swirl of cops, reporters, photographers and her own conflicted emotions, Christine is persuaded to take the boy home. But in her heart, she knows he is not Walter.

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“I was requested to appear before Captain Jones,” she said. “In the presence of several others, he said: ‘What are you trying to do, make a lot of fools out of us all? Are you trying to shirk your duty as a mother and have the State provide for your son? You are just a fool.’” —Los Angeles Times, October 17, 1928

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Mrs. Collins told her story clearly, stating that from the first she was convinced the boy was not her missing son… She was subjected to an exhaustive examination by President Schweitzer, who wound up asking her what happened shortly before she was taken to the County Hospital

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Slandered as delusional and unfit, she finds an ally in community activist Reverend Gustav Briegleb, who helps her fight the city to look for her missing boy.

Facing corrupt police who question her sanity and a skeptical public hungry for a fairy-tale ending, Christine desperately hunts for answers.

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Consensus Voice: "Clint Eastwood again brilliantly portrays the struggle of the outsider against a fraudulent system" --Kirk Honeycutt, Hollywood Reporter

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Screenwriter Straczynski: “The core of it all is Christine Collins’ desire to find out what happened, and never giving up, no matter what anyone threw at her... That tenacity carried her through things that would break anybody else, but she never once stopped fighting… she never once lost faith... Her simple question: ‘Where is my son?’ brought down the entire L.A. city structure.”

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There is a very important truth in this film of excellence. Although Christine Collin died in 1935 not knowing what happened to her son, her quest was not a failure. She was faithful in doing the right thing and therefore she was the victor. Faithfulness in doing the right thing is what determines success, and not the so-called pot of gold at the end of some imagined rainbow. It always about how you live, and not by what we get out of life. Great truth here. Celebrate Christine!

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Screenwriter Straczynski says: Screenwriter Straczynski says: ““My intention was very simple: My intention was very simple:

1.1.To honor what Christine To honor what Christine Collins did.Collins did.2.2.Honor the fight she wagedHonor the fight she waged3.3.(Tell the story of) how she (Tell the story of) how she never once lost faith and…never once lost faith and…4.4.(how she) kept looking for (how she) kept looking for her son.”her son.” QUESTION: After your life is over, how would

a screenwriter characterize your life?

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“Hope begins in the dark, the stubborn hope that if you just show up and try to do the right thing, the dawn will come. You wait and watch and work: You don't give up.” --Anne Lamott, author

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