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Gran Torino
2008 American film by Clint Eastwood
This article is about the film. For the car, see Ford Torino. For the Italian football team, see Grande Torino.
Gran Torino is a 2008 American drama film directed and produced by Clint Eastwood, who also starred in the film. The film features a large Hmong American cast (the first time for an American mainstream film),[4] as well as one of Eastwood's younger sons, Scott. Eastwood's oldest son of record, Kyle, composed the film's score with Michael Stevens, while Jamie Cullum and Clint Eastwood (in-character as Walt Kowalski) provide the theme song.
Set in Highland Park, Michigan, the story follows Walt Kowalski, a recently widowed Korean War veteran alienated from his family and angry at the world, whose young neighbor, Thao Vang Lor, is pressured bygd his cousin into stealing Walt's prized Ford Torino for his initiation into a gang. Walt thwarts the theft and subsequently develops a relationship with the boy and hi
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List of Gran Torino characters
The following is a list of significant characters who feature in the 2008 filmGran Torino, directed by Clint Eastwood.
Casting calls were held in Fresno, California, Detroit, Michigan, and Saint Paul, Minnesota, from which Eastwood selected ten Hmong American lead actors and supporting actors. Of them, only one was not a first time actor.[1] Of the Hmong cast, five, including Bee Vang,[2] one of the principal actors,[3] were from the state of Minnesota.[2]Ahney Her comes from Lansing, Michigan. The casting agency Pound & Mooney recruited thirty actors and over 500 extras. The firm recruited many Hmong actors from a Hmong soccer tournament in Macomb County, Michigan.[3] Sandy Ci Moua, a Hmong actress based in the Minneapolis-St. Paul area, assisted with the film's casting of Hmong actors.[4]
One actor who auditioned praised how the casting avoided the typical East Asian stereotype