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2008’s Gran Torino, starring Clint Eastwood as a grumpy old man, remains a classic.

It’s a role perfectly written for him, and really well executed by the multiple Oscar winner.

In the years that have followed, Eastwood has starred in The Mule, alongside Bradley Cooper, and directed Richard Jewell, a biopic about the 1996 Atlanta Olympic park bombings and the man who was accused of being involved.

Playing tough guys is kind of his thing, and Cry Macho is very much on the money.

Here’s the write-up via Collider:

[The film] pairs Eastwood with a Mexican teenager played by Eduardo Minett. The 91-year-old screen legend plays Mike Milo, an award-winning horse breeder who sinks into an alcoholic depression after losing his wife and child.

He ultimately takes a job from his former boss to bring the man’s son home, taking the boy away from his alcoholic mother.

Naturally, the journey proves to be more challenging than expected, and Milo must confront his own masculinity and trauma during the course of the trip.

Eastwood also serves as the movie’s director, with Nick Schenk, who penned Gran Torino and The Mule making up half of the screenwriting team.

Author N. Richard Nash accounts for the other half, with the movie based on a series he wrote in 1975.

Roll tape:

This one will hit US theatres, as well as HBO Max, on September 17.

[source:collider]