Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Commentary (films not included). Pages: 187. Chapters: Changeling (film), The Hunger Games (film), The Last Song (film), Tender Mercies, The Passion of the Christ, Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps, It's a Wonderful Life, There Will Be Blood, The Tree of Life (film), Sunset Boulevard (film), Greed (film), Let Me In (film), Gladiator (2000 film), Hancock (film), The Lovely Bones (film), Gran Torino, A Clockwork Orange (film), Eyes Wide Shut, Precious: Based on the Novel "Push" by Sapphire, Full Metal Jacket, Raging Bull, Magnolia (film), Hotel Rwanda, All About Eve, Real Steel, Where the Wild Things Are (film), Wall Street (1987 film), Barry Lyndon, The Birth of a Nation, I'm Not There. Excerpt: Changeling is a 2008 American drama film directed by Clint Eastwood and written by J. Michael Straczynski. Based on real-life events in 1928 Los Angeles, the film stars Angelina Jolie as a woman who is reunited with her missing son-only to realize he is an impostor. She confronts the city authorities, who vilify her as an unfit mother and brand her delusional. The dramatized incident was connected to the "Wineville Chicken Coop" kidnapping and murder case. Changeling explores female disempowerment, political corruption, child endangerment, and the repercussions of violence. Ron Howard intended to direct, but scheduling conflicts led to his replacement by Eastwood. Howard and his Imagine Entertainment partner Brian Grazer produced Changeling alongside Malpaso Productions' Robert Lorenz and Eastwood. Universal Pictures financed and distributed the film. After hearing about the case from a contact at Los Angeles City Hall, Straczynski spent a year researching the historical record. He said he drew 95% of the script from around 6,000 pages of documentation. The shooting script was Straczynski's first draft and his first produced film screenplay....