Changeling
To find her son, she did what no one else dared.
2008 | 141m | English
Popularity: 4 (history)
| Director: | Clint Eastwood |
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| Writer: | J. Michael Straczynski |
| Staring: |
| Los Angeles, 1928. When single mother Christine Collins leaves for work, her son vanishes without a trace. Five months later, the police reunite mother and son. But when Christine suspects that the boy returned to her isn't her child, her quest for truth exposes a world of corruption. | |
| Release Date: | Oct 24, 2008 |
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| Director: | Clint Eastwood |
| Writer: | J. Michael Straczynski |
| Genres: | Drama, Crime, Mystery |
| Keywords | biography, police corruption, missing child, 1920s, disbelieving cop, police coverup, based on true story, los angeles, california, mental asylum, missing son, child abduction, apathetic, child in peril, street urchin, shock treatment, desperate woman, female hysteria, clergyman, single mother, mental hospital, mother son relationship, telephone switchboard operator |
| Production Companies | Imagine Entertainment, Universal Pictures, Malpaso Productions, Relativity Media |
| Box Office |
Revenue: $113,400,000
Budget: $55,000,000 |
| Updates |
Updated: Jul 30, 2025 (Update) Entered: Apr 13, 2024 |
| Name | Character |
|---|---|
| Angelina Jolie | Christine Collins |
| John Malkovich | Rev. Gustav Briegleb |
| Jeffrey Donovan | Captain J.J. Jones |
| Michael Kelly | Detective Lester Ybarra |
| Colm Feore | Chief James E. Davis |
| Jason Butler Harner | Gordon Northcott |
| Amy Ryan | Carol Dexter |
| Geoff Pierson | S.S. Hahn |
| Denis O'Hare | Dr. Jonathan Steele |
| Frank Wood | Ben Harris |
| Peter Gerety | Dr. Earl W. Tarr |
| Reed Birney | Mayor Cryer |
| Gattlin Griffith | Walter Collins |
| Michelle Gunn | Sandy |
| Jan Devereaux | Operator |
| Erica Grant | Operator |
| Antonia Bennett | Operator |
| Kerri Randles | Operator |
| Morgan Eastwood | Girl on Tricycle |
| Madison Hodges | Neighborhood Girl |
| Devon Conti | Arthur Hutchins |
| Ric Sarabia | Man at Diner |
| J.P. Bumstead | Cook |
| Debra Christofferson | Police Matron at Train |
| Russell Edge | Reporter at Train |
| Stephen W. Alvarez | Reporter at Train |
| Pete Rockwell | Reporter at Precinct |
| John Harrington Bland | Dr. John Montgomery |
| Pamela Dunlap | Mrs. Fox |
| Roger Hewlett | Officer Morelli |
| Jim Cantafio | Desk Sergeant |
| Maria J. Rockwell | Police Matron at Precinct |
| Wendy Worthington | Reception Nurse |
| Riki Lindhome | Examination Nurse |
| Dawn Flood | Morning Nurse |
| Dale Dickey | Patient |
| Eddie Alderson | Sanford Clark |
| Sterling Wolfe | Briegleb's Aide |
| Michael McCafferty | Ticket Vendor |
| David Goldman | Administrator |
| Anthony De Marco | Abducted Kid |
| Joshua Logan Moore | Abducted Kid |
| Joe Kaprielian | Abducted Kid |
| Muriel Minot | Secretary |
| Kevin Glikmann | Male Orderly |
| Drew Richards | Holding Officer |
| Hope Shapiro | Medication Nurse |
| Caleb Campbell | Backup Detective |
| Jeff Cockey | Backup Detective |
| Zach Mills | News Vendor |
| Kelly Lynn Warren | Rachel Clark |
| Colby French | Bob Clark |
| Scott Leva | Mountie |
| Richard King | Mountie |
| Clint Ward | Mountie |
| Michael Dempsey | Man on Street |
| Peter Breitmayer | Chairman Thorpe |
| Phil Van Tee | Councilman |
| Jim Nieb | Reporter at Hearing |
| Lily Knight | Mrs. Leanne Clay |
| Jeffrey Hutchinson | Mr. Clay |
| Brian Prescott | Courtroom Bailiff |
| Ryan Cutrona | Judge |
| Mary Stein | Janet Hutchins |
| Gregg Binkley | Jury Foreman |
| William Charlton | Prison Guard |
| Cooper Thornton | Prison Guard |
| E.J. Callahan | Warden |
| Asher Axe | David Clay |
| Devon Gearhart | Winslow Boy |
| Dalton Stumbo | Winslow Boy |
| Austin Mensch | Boy in Coop |
| Jen Lilley | Switchboard Operator (uncredited) |
| Navah Raphael | Phone Operator (uncredited) |
| Suzanne LaChasse | Operator (uncredited) |
| William Brent | Screaming Boy (voice, uncredited) |
| Callie Thompson | Farm Girl (uncredited) |
| Michael Lovern | Train Passenger (uncredited) |
| Patrizia Milano | Train Passenger (uncredited) |
| January Welsh | Train Passenger (uncredited) |
| Jarrod Robbins | Reporter (uncredited) |
| Marissa Welsh | Lady in White (uncredited) |
| Kerry Hennessy | Church Member / Protestor / Witness (uncredited) |
| JW Wiseman | Orderly #2 (uncredited) |
| Christopher Karl Johnson | Protester / Man on Corner with Newspaper Smoking (uncredited) |
| Jessica Irvine Drake | Protestor (uncredited) |
| Kimberly Langley | Protestor (uncredited) |
| Jennifer Swirtz | Protestor (uncredited) |
| Andre Alexsen | LA City Councilman (uncredited) |
| John H. Tobin | Northcott Defense Counsel (uncredited) |
| Dominick Dunne | Man on Jury (uncredited) |
| Danton Dabar | Prison Guard #3 (uncredited) |
| Scott Pierce | Prison Doctor (uncredited) |
| Gary Buckner | Prison Executioner (uncredited) |
| Bruce Holman | Execution Observer (uncredited) |
| Name | Job |
|---|---|
| James J. Murakami | Production Design |
| Gary D. Roach | Editor |
| Gary Fettis | Set Decoration |
| Steve Riley | Special Effects Supervisor |
| Janis Clark | Hairstylist |
| Michael Owens | Visual Effects Supervisor |
| Stephen S. Campanelli | Steadicam Operator |
| Michael Cipriano | Assistant Editor |
| Geoffrey Miclat | Casting Associate |
| Gregg Rudloff | Sound Re-Recording Mixer |
| Walt Martin | Sound Mixer |
| John T. Reitz | Sound Re-Recording Mixer |
| Tim Moore | Unit Production Manager |
| Michael Stevens | Music Arranger |
| Katie Carroll | Second Assistant Director |
| Donald Murphy | First Assistant Director |
| Patrick Tendai Pfupajena | Production Assistant |
| Bobby Clark | Stunts |
| Larry Holt | Stunts |
| Brandon Loeser | Stunts |
| Dustin Meier | Stunts |
| Shawn Crowder | Stunts |
| Loren Dennis | Stunts |
| Deborah L. Mazor | Stunts |
| Samuel Reynolds | Stunts |
| Richard Bucher | Stunts |
| William Barillaro | Stunts |
| Pam Cartmel | Assistant Art Director |
| Wes Sargent | VFX Artist |
| Flash Deros | Boom Operator |
| Gail Carroll-Coe | Cableman |
| Bill Coe | First Assistant "A" Camera |
| Bobby McMahan | Second Assistant "A" Camera |
| Trevor Carroll-Coe | Camera Loader |
| Tony Rivetti Jr. | Still Photographer |
| Terry Anderson | Assistant Costume Designer |
| Nancy McArdle | Costume Supervisor |
| Cheryl Scarano | Costumer |
| Robert Iannaccone | Costumer |
| Ann Culotta | Set Costumer |
| Corey Bronson | Set Costumer |
| Jo Kissack Folsom | Set Costumer |
| Felicia Molinari | Set Costumer |
| Jack Taggart | Ager/Dyer |
| Tania McComas | Makeup Department Head |
| Jay Wejebe | Makeup Artist |
| Carol A. O'Connell | Hair Department Head |
| Patricia DeHaney | Hairstylist |
| Ross Dunkerley | Chief Lighting Technician |
| John Lacy | Assistant Chief Lighting Technician |
| Joseph M. Lyons | Lighting Technician |
| Buzzy Burwell | Lighting Technician |
| Brian Minzlaff | Lighting Technician |
| Doug Wall | Best Boy Grip |
| Greg Brooks | Dolly Grip |
| Craig Garfield | Grip |
| Bruce D. Spellman | Grip |
| Mark Wojciechowski | Grip |
| Charlie Edwards | Grip |
| Paul Wilkowsky | Grip |
| Jessica Meier | Producer's Assistant |
| Kimi Armstrong Stein | Producer's Assistant |
| Natalie Hsieh Cencula | Executive Producer's Assistant |
| Holly Goline | Actor's Assistant |
| E. Michael Stankevich | Actor's Assistant |
| Kathryn C. Galberth | Assistant Production Coordinator |
| Trish Pertschi | Assistant Production Coordinator |
| Mark David Katchur | Art Department Coordinator |
| Jason S. Gondek | Production Accountant |
| Joel Tokarsky | First Assistant Accountant |
| Stephanie N. Whallon | Assistant Accountant |
| Krista Kuebler | Assistant Accountant |
| Jennifer Hunt | Assistant Accountant |
| Lindsey Hennig | Assistant Accountant |
| Carol McConnaughey | Unit Publicist |
| Michael Sexton | Property Master |
| Scott M. Anderson | Assistant Property Master |
| John Horning | Assistant Property Master |
| Michael Muscarella | Construction Coordinator |
| William Gideon | Construction Foreman |
| Chuck Eskridge | Standby Painter |
| Patrick Mignano | Location Manager |
| Peter Dress | Second Second Assistant Director |
| Dominic V. Ruiz | Special Effects Technician |
| Ryan Senecal | Special Effects Technician |
| Shari Ann Riley | Special Effects Technician |
| Larry Stelling | Transportation Coordinator |
| Alana Stelling | Transportation Captain |
| Dom Rodriguez | Transportation Captain |
| T. Daniel Scaringi | Key Rigging Grip |
| Matt Floyd | Rigging Grip |
| Andrew Dorowsky | Rigging Gaffer |
| Liz Radley | CG Supervisor |
| Adrian Gorton | Set Designer |
| Dianne Wager | Set Designer |
| Doreen Austria | Graphic Designer |
| Edward J. Protiva | Leadman |
| David Ladish | Set Dresser |
| J.R. Vasquez | Set Dresser |
| Leslie Warren | Set Dresser |
| Kai Blomberg | Set Dresser |
| Doug Sieck | Set Dresser |
| George Hess | Set Dresser |
| Kate Fettis | Set Dresser |
| James Fernandez | On Set Dresser |
| Amelia Rasche McCarthy | Casting Associate |
| Tony Hobbs | Extras Casting |
| Claire Benjamin | Extras Casting |
| Lucy Coldsnow-Smith | Dialogue Editor |
| James Matheny | Dialogue Editor |
| Juno J. Ellis | ADR Supervisor |
| Lisa J. Levine | ADR Editor |
| Jason King | Sound Effects Editor |
| William Cawley | Sound Effects Editor |
| Steven Ladish | Set Dresser |
| Kevin Murray | Sound Effects Editor |
| Paul Berolzheimer | Sound Effects Editor |
| Jonathan Klein | Foley Editor |
| Thomas W. Small | Foley Editor |
| Valerie Davidson | Foley Editor |
| Dan O'Connell | Foley Artist |
| John T. Cucci | Foley Artist |
| Ryan Murphy | Mix Technician |
| James Ashwill | Foley Mixer |
| Thomas J. O'Connell | ADR Mixer |
| David Boulton | ADR Mixer |
| Rick Canelli | ADR Recordist |
| Brian Gallagher | ADR Recordist |
| Jill Bogdanowicz | Digital Intermediate Colorist |
| Bob Peishel | Digital Intermediate Producer |
| Mark Sahagun | Digital Intermediate Editor |
| Kurt Smith | Color Timer |
| Karri Mayo | Studio Teacher |
| Nancy G. James | Craft Service |
| Brian K. Stuart | Craft Service |
| Dr. Ferguson Reid | Set Medic |
| Linda Stelling | Set Medic |
| Geoffrey Hancock | Visual Effects Supervisor |
| Jinnie Pak | Visual Effects Producer |
| Donald A. Kincade | Set Production Assistant |
| Chuck Webb | Set Production Assistant |
| Nathan Kimball | Set Production Assistant |
| Matthew Gannon | Set Production Assistant |
| Will Ziegenhorn | Production Assistant |
| Tony X. Deale | Production Assistant |
| Hector M. Bueno | Production Assistant |
| David S. Cox | Production Assistant |
| Jared A.J. Muscarella | Production Assistant |
| Annie Brownell Jewell | Production Assistant |
| Marta Knapik | Visual Effects Coordinator |
| Sebastian Bilbao | CG Supervisor |
| Mike Borgstrom | CG Artist |
| Scott Russell | CG Artist |
| Earl Paraszczynec | CG Artist |
| Christian Emond | CG Artist |
| Karl Sisson | Lighting Artist |
| David Hughes | Modeling |
| Debora Dunphy | Compositing Supervisor |
| Moritz Eiche | Compositor |
| Allan Lee | Compositor |
| Christine Petrov | Compositor |
| Mark Freund | Visual Effects Supervisor |
| Darin McCormick-Millett | Visual Effects Producer |
| Dennis Hoffman | Visual Effects Producer |
| Clint Eastwood | Original Music Composer, Director |
| Joel Cox | Editor |
| Ellen Chenoweth | Casting |
| Tom Stern | Director of Photography |
| Scott Leva | Utility Stunts |
| Zoe Hay | Makeup Artist |
| Buddy Van Horn | Stunt Coordinator |
| Chris McGeary | Music Editor |
| Lennie Niehaus | Conductor, Orchestrator |
| Alan Robert Murray | Supervising Sound Editor |
| J. Michael Straczynski | Writer |
| Kyle Eastwood | Music Arranger |
| J.P. Romano | Stunts |
| Davey Thompson | Stunts |
| Chuck Waters | Stunts |
| Luci Romberg | Stunts |
| T. Ryan Mooney | Stunts |
| Blu Murray | Assistant Editor |
| Kerry Lyn McKissick | Script Supervisor |
| David Arnold | Supervising Dialogue Editor |
| Barbara Harris | ADR Voice Casting |
| Vicki Goldsmith | Set Production Assistant |
| Robert Fernandez | Scoring Mixer |
| Patrick M. Sullivan Jr. | Art Direction |
| Paul Darnell | Stunts |
| Charles Saldaña III | Key Grip |
| Abel Milanés | Compositor |
| Deborah Hopper | Costume Design |
| Name | Title |
|---|---|
| Tim Moore | Executive Producer |
| Geyer Kosinski | Executive Producer |
| Shauna Bryan | Executive Producer |
| Ron Howard | Producer |
| Robert Lorenz | Producer |
| Brian Grazer | Producer |
| Clint Eastwood | Producer |
| Jim Whitaker | Executive Producer |
| Audrey Chon | Executive Producer |
| Organization | Category | Person |
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Popularity History
| Year | Month | Avg | Max | Min |
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| 2024 | 4 | 41 | 81 | 28 |
| 2024 | 5 | 62 | 74 | 50 |
| 2024 | 6 | 47 | 81 | 26 |
| 2024 | 7 | 34 | 65 | 18 |
| 2024 | 8 | 29 | 60 | 16 |
| 2024 | 9 | 18 | 26 | 11 |
| 2024 | 10 | 26 | 53 | 15 |
| 2024 | 11 | 22 | 41 | 15 |
| 2024 | 12 | 21 | 55 | 14 |
| 2025 | 1 | 23 | 51 | 15 |
| 2025 | 2 | 16 | 23 | 3 |
| 2025 | 3 | 7 | 19 | 1 |
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| 2025 | 7 | 800 | 871 |
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| 2025 | 6 | 698 | 750 |
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| 2025 | 3 | 527 | 704 |
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| 2025 | 1 | 766 | 847 |
r96sk
9.0
Dark! <em>'Changeling'</em> is a cracking release from 2008. Angelina Jolie gives a superb performance in the lead role, in a plot that is rather harrowing whilst also being actually incredibly infuriating - as in, the film does a great job at making the antagonists the antagonists. The cast, ... spearheaded by Jolie, are excellent. No-one is on her level per se, but there are very good performances from the likes of John Malkovich, Michael Kelly, Jeffrey Donovan and Geoff Pierson; kid actor Eddie Alderson also impresses. I will say that the story wraps up in a quicker manner than I thought it would, though the pacing of the 142 minute run time is in fact one of its positives - even at that length, I feel it could've drawn out the court trial stuff longer; though that may have hindered the pacing, so it's not really a noteworthy criticism of mine at all. One worth recommending, no doubt!
Feb 10, 2022