Veteran actor and film maker Clint Eastwood’s latest offer, Changeling, has garnered appreciation from both critics and audiences for his sensitive treatment of a true story about a mother who claims that the boy returned to her after a kidnapping is not her own.

The film is set in the late 1920s and revolves around the Christine Collins, young working mother in Los Angeles who comes back home after work one day to find that her son has been taken away. Soon the police claim that they have found the boy but she at once recognizes that the child brought by the police is not her son. However, she is persuaded to take back the boy home, but Christine keeps telling the police not to give up their search for her son. She is then vilified and branded delusional but she keeps up her fight to confront the city officials and the corruption in the police department

The pivotal role of the embattled woman Christine is played feelingly by Angelina Jolie while other actors like Malkovich, Donovan and Harner deliver commendable performances. Eastwood’s direction is straight-forward and weaves seamlessly among several issues like women’s emancipation, civil corruption and impact of violence on communities.