A ninety-year-old horticulturist and Korean War veteran turns drug mule for a Mexican cartel.A ninety-year-old horticulturist and Korean War veteran turns drug mule for a Mexican cartel.A ninety-year-old horticulturist and Korean War veteran turns drug mule for a Mexican cartel.
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Clint Eastwood: Actor, Director ... Master Impressionist?
Clint Eastwood: Actor, Director ... Master Impressionist?
Clint Eastwood does it all in The Mule ... including keeping his cast rolling with a killer impression of a classic cartoon character. And yes, we have proof.
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- TriviaThis movie was based on The New York Times article "The Sinaloa Cartel's 90-Year-Old Drug Mule" by Sam Dolnick, which recounts and was inspired by the true story of Leo Sharp, a World War II veteran in his eighties, who became the world's oldest and most prolific drug mule for the Sinaloa Cartel. in this movie, however, this was changed to him being a Korean War vet, so the story could be set in 2017.
- GoofsEarl pleads guilty during his trial and the judge simply sends him to prison immediately. This is wildly unrealistic. In such a scenario, the judge would have called a recess or adjourned the trial for the day and ordered Earl to confer with his lawyer. If Earl was intent on pleading guilty, the judge would have accepted the plea and set a date for sentencing.
- Quotes
Mary: You were the love of my life, and the pain of my life. And I need you to know, it's all the world to me that you're here.
[moaning]
Earl Stone: I love you Mary.
Mary: More today than yesterday.
Earl Stone: But not as much as tomorrow.
- ConnectionsFeatured in Toby Keith: Don't Let the Old Man In (2018)
- SoundtracksSiento Que Ya No Estas
Written and Performed by Arturo Sandoval
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Clint Eastwood's still got it
I had never heard of Leo Sharp before watching "The Mule". What a story. Clint Eastwood (who also directed) plays a fictionalized version of Sharp, smuggling drugs for a cartel partly because it enables him to spend the money benevolently. These moral conundrums arise a lot.
It was a little weird in some scenes, seeing Eastwood surrounded by women a fraction of his age; probably wishful thinking on his part. Even so, the movie shows how the old man got more and more into the business, resulting in some tense incidents. In addition to Eastwood, there's good support from Laurence Fishburne, Bradley Cooper, Dianne Wiest, Andy Garcia and Taissa Farmiga.
It was a little weird in some scenes, seeing Eastwood surrounded by women a fraction of his age; probably wishful thinking on his part. Even so, the movie shows how the old man got more and more into the business, resulting in some tense incidents. In addition to Eastwood, there's good support from Laurence Fishburne, Bradley Cooper, Dianne Wiest, Andy Garcia and Taissa Farmiga.
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- May 9, 2021
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- Also known as
- Trùm Ma Túy
- Filming locations
- Shaw's Sunshine Gardens - 3096 Lumpkin Park Drive, Augusta, Georgia, USA(Earl's house and garden)
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Box office
- Budget
- $50,000,000 (estimated)
- Gross US & Canada
- $103,804,407
- Opening weekend US & Canada
- $17,509,431
- Dec 16, 2018
- Gross worldwide
- $174,804,407
- Runtime1 hour 56 minutes
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- Aspect ratio
- 2.39 : 1
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