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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Far from a classic, but an OK Eastwood flick
You could say I'm a considerably huge Clint Eastwood fan, I celebrate the man's whole career and love most of his work. As a director, I think he's been solid overall, making a handful of classic films along the way. As watchable as it is, The Mule is not one of them. It could be the last big thing we see from Eastwood's career, and if so, then it's not a bad note to go out on, but it's not his best, and it doesn't have to be. He's proven himself a hundred times over, and this is the film he wanted to make. The Mule is a fine movie to watch, and Eastwood plays a very subdued character, unlike his role in Gran Torino where he still had shades of his bad boy past. He's softer, he's passive, he's what you expect a man of this age to be...and in that way, he played it perfectly.
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- Mar 19, 2019
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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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- 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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