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Blood Work is a 2002 American mystery thriller film produced, directed by, and starring Clint Eastwood. The film co-stars Jeff Daniels, Wanda De Jesús, and Anjelica Huston. It is based on the 1998 novel of the same name by Michael Connelly.

Blood Work
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Directed by	Clint Eastwood
Screenplay by	Brian Helgeland
Based on	Blood Work by Michael Connelly
Produced by	Clint Eastwood
Starring	Clint Eastwood Jeff Daniels Wanda De Jesús Tina Lifford Paul Rodriguez Dylan Walsh Anjelica Huston
Cinematography	Tom Stern
Edited by	Joel Cox
Music by	Lennie Niehaus
Production company	Malpaso Productions
Distributed by	Warner Bros. Pictures
Release date	August 9, 2002 (2002-08-09)
Running time	110 minutes
Country	United States
Language	English
Budget	$50 million[1]
Box office	$31.8 million[2]

Eastwood won the Future Film Festival Digital Award at the Venice Film Festival.[3]

Plot

During a federal investigation into a local homicide, FBI Special Agent Terry McCaleb goes outside to address the media, but spots the so-called "code murderer" in the crowd. He chases the man and wounds him, but the chase ends when McCaleb suffers a heart attack.

Retired, McCaleb lives in a Grand Banks motor cruiser on the Long Beach bay. He receives a second chance at life with a heart transplant. He is approached by Graciella Rivers; her sister, Gloria, was murdered during a robbery and she asks him to solve the case. He discovers that the heart transplanted into him was Gloria's. He has nightmares of the robbery during which Gloria was murdered.

McCaleb, against the advice of his physician, decides to find the murderer with the help of houseboat neighbor Buddy and local police detective Jaye Winston. McCaleb's path leads to several suspects, but he eventually realizes that Buddy is the murderer.

Buddy reveals that he has kidnapped Graciella and her nephew, Gloria's son Raymond. There is a shootout on a wrecked, marooned fishing boat. After McCaleb wounds Buddy a second time, Buddy attempts to reach for his gun only to be shot dead by McCaleb. Buddy's dying words are "I saved you." Graciella then reaches over and holds Buddy's face underwater, participating in his execution, getting justice for her murdered sister. McCaleb starts another new life with Graciella and Raymond.

Cast

Production

Blood Work was filmed in spring 2002 in Los Angeles and Long Beach, California, in 38 days.[1]

Reception

Blood Work received mixed reviews. It has a score of 54% on Rotten Tomatoes, saying it was "a routine, but competently made thriller marred by lethargic pacing." However, A. O. Scott of The New York Times wrote while it was similar to many Eastwood films, "there is something comforting in seeing this old warhorse trot gamely out of the gate for yet another run on familiar turf."[4]

The film was not a box office success, grossing $31.8 million worldwide on a budget of $50 million.[5]

References

External links

• Blood Work at IMDb 
• Blood Work at AllMovie
• Blood Work at the American Film Institute Catalog
• Blood Work at Rotten Tomatoes
• Blood Work at Metacritic
• Blood Work at Box Office Mojo

На других языках

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- [en] Blood Work (film)

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[ru] Кровавая работа

«Кровавая работа» (англ. Blood Work) — триллер с элементами детектива, снятый и спродюсированный Клинтом Иствудом в 2002 году. В основе фильма положен роман Майкла Коннелли, переписанный сценаристом Брайаном Хелгелендом. Слоган: англ. «A serial killer is just a heartbeat away».

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