The 32yearold reality star has been by her boyfriends side through his NBA Championship loss. C360' alt='Watch Waist Deep Online Metacritic' title='Watch Waist Deep Online Metacritic' />Changeling film Wikipedia. Changeling is a 2. Watch The Lost Online Hollywoodreporter. American mysterythriller film directed, co produced and scored by Clint Eastwood and written by J. Michael Straczynski,1 that explores child endangerment, female disempowerment, political corruption, mistreatment of mental health patients, and the repercussions of violence. The script was based on real life events, specifically the 1. Nick Douglas. Staff Writer, Lifehacker Nick has been writing online for 11 years at sites like Urlesque, Gawker, the Daily Dot, and Slacktory. News Scott Disick Hooks Up With Old Fling Chloe Bartoli Day After Bella Thorne Makeout Pics. Changeling is a 2008 American mystery thriller film directed, coproduced and scored by Clint Eastwood and written by J. Michael Straczynski, that explores child. Wineville Chicken Coop Murders in Mira Loma, California. The film stars Angelina Jolie as a woman reunited with a boy whom she immediately realizes is not her missing son. When she tries to demonstrate this to the police and city authorities, she is vilified as delusional, labeled as an unfit mother, and then confined to a psychiatric ward. Straczynski spent a year researching the story after hearing about the Wineville Chicken Coop case from a contact at Los Angeles City Hall. Almost all of the films script was drawn from thousands of pages of documentation. Note 1 His first draft became the shooting script it was his first film screenplay to be produced. Ron Howard had intended to direct the film, but scheduling conflicts led to his replacement by Eastwood. Howard and his Imagine Entertainment partner Brian Grazer produced Changeling alongside Malpaso Productions Robert Lorenz and Eastwood. Universal Pictures financed and distributed the film. Several actors campaigned for the leading role ultimately, Eastwood decided that Jolies face would suit the 1. The film also stars Jeffrey Donovan, Jason Butler Harner, John Malkovich, Michael Kelly, and Amy Ryan. While some characters are composites, most are based on actual people. Principal photography, which began on October 1. December, took place in Los Angeles and other locations in southern California. Actors and crew noted that Eastwoods low key direction resulted in a calm set and short working days. In post production, scenes were supplemented with computer generated skylines, backgrounds, vehicles and people. Changeling premiered to critical acclaim at the 6. Cannes Film Festival on May 2. Additional festival screenings preceded a limited release in the United States on October 2. North America on October 3. United Kingdom on November 2. Australia on February 5, 2. Critical reaction was more mixed than at Cannes. Watch The One I Love Streaming. While the acting and story were generally praised, the films conventional staging and lack of nuance were criticized. Changeling earned 1. United States and Canada  and received nominations in three Academy Award and eight BAFTA Award categories. In Los Angeles in 1. Christine Collins Jolie returns home to discover her nine year old son, Walter Gattlin Griffith, is missing. Reverend Gustav Briegleb Malkovich publicizes Christines plight and rails against the Los Angeles Police Department LAPD for its incompetence, corruption and the extrajudicial punishment meted out by its Gun Squad led by Chief James E. Davis Feore. Several months after Walters disappearance, the LAPD tells Christine that the boy has been found alive. Believing the positive publicity will negate recent criticism of the department, the LAPD organizes a public reunion. Although Walter Devon Conti claims he is Christines son, she says he is not. Captain J. J. Jones Donovan, the head of the LAPDs Juvenile Division, insists the boy is Walter and pressures Christine into taking him home on a trial basis. After Christine confronts Jones with physical discrepancies between Walter and her son, Jones arranges for a medical doctor to visit her. He tells Christine that Walter is three inches shorter than before his disappearance because trauma has shrunk his spine, and that the man who took Walter had him circumcised. A newspaper prints a story that implies Christine is an unfit mother Briegleb tells Christine it was planted by police to discredit her. Walters teacher and dentist each give Christine signed letters confirming Walter is an impostor. Christine tells her story to the press as a result, Jones sends her to Los Angeles County Hospitals psychopathic ward. She befriends inmate Carol Dexter Ryan, who tells Christine she is one of several women who were sent there for challenging police authority. Dr. Steele OHare diagnoses Christine as delusional and forces her to take mood regulating pills. Steele says he will release Christine if she admits she was mistaken about Walter she refuses. Detective Ybarra Kelly travels to a ranch in Wineville, Riverside County, to arrange the deportation of 1. Sanford Clark Eddie Alderson to Canada. The boys uncle, Gordon Northcott Harner, has fled after a chance encounter with Ybarra, who mentions his business there being a juvenile matter. Clark tells Ybarra that Northcott forced him to help kidnap and murder around twenty children, and identifies Walter as one of them. Jones tells Briegleb that Christine is in protective custody following a mental breakdown. Jones orders Clarks deportation, but Ybarra takes Clark to the murder site and tells him to dig where the bodies are buried. Clark hesitates, but soon uncovers body parts. Briegleb secures Christines release by showing Steele a newspaper story about the Wineville killings that names Walter as a possible victim. Under interrogation by Ybarra, Walters impostor reveals his motive was to secure transport to Los Angeles to see his favorite actor, Tom Mix, and says the police told him to lie about being Christines son. The police capture Northcott in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. Christines attorney Pierson secures a court order for the release of other unjustly imprisoned women who the police wanted to silence. On the day of the city councils hearing into the case, Christine and Briegleb arrive at Los Angeles City Hall, where they encounter thousands of protesters who are demanding answers from the city. The hearing is intercut with scenes from Northcotts trial. The council concludes that Jones and Davis should be removed from duty, and that extrajudicial internments by police must be stopped. Northcotts jury finds him guilty of murder and the judge sentences him to death by hanging. Two years later, Christine has not given up her search for Walter. Northcott sends her a message saying he is willing to admit to killing Walter on condition that Christine meets him before his execution. She visits Northcott, but he refuses to tell her if he killed her son. Northcott is executed the next day. In 1. 93. 5, David Clay, one of the boys assumed to have been killed, is found alive in Hesperia, California. He reveals that one of the boys with whom he was imprisoned was Walter. David, Walter, and another boy escaped, but were separated. David does not know whether Walter was recaptured, but he says Walter helped him escape, giving Christine hope he is alive. In the epilogue, it states that after the hearing, Captain Jones was suspended, Chief Davis was demoted, and Los Angeles Mayor George Cryer chose not to run for reelection. Californias state legislature made it illegal to forcibly commit people to psychiatric facilities by mere words alone of authorities, and Rev. Briegleb continued to use his radio show to expose police misconduct and political corruption. Wineville is said to have changed its name to Mira Loma, and Christine Collins reportedly never stopped searching for her son. Historical contexteditIn 1. Sanford Clark was taken from his home in Saskatchewan with the permission of his mother and reluctant father by his uncle, 1. Gordon Stewart Northcott. Northcott took Clark to a ranch in Wineville, California, where he regularly beat and sexually abused the boy until August 1. Clark into custody after his sister, 1. Lifehacker. Nick Douglas. Staff Writer, Lifehacker Nick has been writing online for 1. Urlesque, Gawker, the Daily Dot, and Slacktory. He lives in Park Slope with his wife and their books.