Clint Eastwood has had the best movie opening of his long and esteemed career. His " Gran Torino " revved up the winter box office with $29 million in ticket sales in its first weekend of wide ...

The title of "Gran Torino," Clint Eastwood's second movie this year (after October's "Changeling"), refers to a pristine '72 Ford that his character, Walt Kowalski, keeps polished in his garage.

In Gran Torino Eastwood returns to the solid old filmmaking virtues of one of his mentors, Don Siegel, and wittily plays around with his well-worn tough guy image.