Mystic River 🎥 2003 Movie Info

Plot Summary

In 1975, Irish-American neighborhood friends Jimmy Markum, Sean Devine, and Dave Boyle are playing street hockey in Charlestown, Boston. After the boys write their names in a patch of wet concrete on the sidewalk, two predators posing as police officers abduct Dave and rape him for four days until he escapes. One of the kidnappers dies before they can be caught, and the other is arrested and later dies by suicide in prison. 25 years later, Jimmy is an ex-convict and neighborhood convenience store owner; Sean is a detective with the Massachusetts State Police whose pregnant wife Lauren recently left him, and Dave is a blue-collar worker continually haunted by the abduction and rape he suffered.

Jimmy and Dave are connected by marriage: Dave’s wife Celeste and Jimmy’s second wife Annabeth are cousins. Jimmy’s daughter from his first marriage, Katie, plans to run away to Las Vegas with Brendan Harris, a boy from a family Jimmy despises that she has been secretly dating. One night, Dave sees Katie and her friends at a local bar. That same night, she is murdered, and Dave comes home bloodied and injured, claiming he fought off a mugger and possibly killed him. Sean and his partner Whitey Powers investigate the murder while Jimmy, distraught at Katie’s death, conducts a separate investigation using his neighborhood connections. A witness statement suggests that Katie may have known her killer.

The detectives learn that the gun used to kill her, a .38 Special revolver, was also used in a liquor store robbery in 1984 by “Just Ray” Harris, Brendan’s father. Harris has been missing since 1989, but Brendan claims he still sends his family $500 monthly and feigns ignorance about Ray’s gun. Whitey suspects Dave, who keeps changing the story about how his hand got injured. Dave continues to behave erratically, which upsets Celeste to the point that she leaves their home and tells Jimmy she suspects Dave is Katie’s murderer.

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