Walt Kowalski (Clint Eastwood) is a widower who holds onto his prejudices despite the changes in his Michigan neighborhood and the world around him. Kowalski is a grumpy, tough-minded, unhappy old ...

But in "Gran Torino," there's little room for mixed emotions -- or the sort of soul-searching that would make it more than an underpowered star vehicle masquerading as an all-time classic.

Then there's the car of the title, Kowalski's mint 1972 Ford Gran Torino. That car spurs an unlikely friendship between Walt and Thao, his teenage neighbor.

The key to everything is that beaut in the garage, a shiny ’72 Torino. Bookish teen Thao (Bee Vang), forced by a shady cousin and his gang, makes a weak attempt at stealing it.

To think Gran Torino is a masterpiece, you have to accept the contrived setups and sledgehammer melodrama. You have to grade the movie on that same meathead-vigilante curve.

Clint Eastwood has hinted that his role as bigoted Korean War veteran Walt Kowalski — a gun-toting widower living in Detroit near the struggling Ford auto plant and even nearer to the Asian ...

Gran Torino Trailer Online Eastwood's latest gets a teaser by Helen O'Hara | Published on 25th October 2008 at 10.09am People: ...

The title character in Clint Eastwood’s Motor City morality tale is, by the reaching light of history, a fairly negligible hunk of machinery: a green 1972 Ford Gran Torino Sport, with a sleek ...

Back in 2008, I starred opposite Clint Eastwood in “Gran Torino” playing the lead Hmong role in a tale of two people transcending their differences to form an unlikely human bond. It was a ...