| Overall: | C+ |
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| Violence: | D+ |
| Sexual Content: | B- |
| Language: | D+ |
| Drugs/Alcohol: | B |
| Run Time: | 139 |
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| Video Release: | 18 Feb 2009 |
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Changeling deals with themes of child abduction, serial killers and police corruption. A super hero sets out to clean up a city dirtied by criminals and bad cops in Batman Begins. Actress Angelina Jolie plays another woman willing to do anything to protect a loved in A Mighty Heart (which is based on the real-life kidnapping and execution of journalist Daniel Pearl).
Home Video Extra Features
The Changeling movie morphs onto DVD with two featurettes: Partners in Crime (aka—director Clint Eastwood and actress Angelina Jolie) and The Common Thread (how Angelina Jolie became Christine Collins). Presented in widescreen, the disc offers audio tracks in Dolby Digital 5.1 Surround (English and French).
Changeling is also available on Blu-ray. This disc provides all of the extras found on the DVD edition, plus interactive features (scene access and menus), U-Control (Archives, Los Angeles: Then and Now and Picture in Picture) and BD-Live. Audio tracks are recorded in English (DTS-HD Master Audio 5.1) and French (DTS 5.1 Surround).
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About the Reviewer: Rod Gustafson
Rod Gustafson has worked in various media industries since 1977. He founded Parent Previews in 1993, and today continues to write and broadcast the reviews in newspapers, on radio and (of course) on the Internet. He currently serves as the President of the Alberta Association for Media Awareness, a provincial non-profit society. He also authors a regular column for The Parent's Television Council in Los Angeles. He and his wife Donna have four children.
