Absolute Power

Absolute Power is a 1997 thriller starring Clint Eastwood, Laura Linney, Gene Hackman among others based on the book by David Baldacci. Clint Eastwood is Luther Whitney a master thief, who goes into the mansion of billionaire Walter Sullivan in order to rob his jewels and cash. While there he witnesses a murder scene involving the President of the United States and Walter's young wife. Walter happens to be a close friend of the President and was in fact responsible for putting him in the White House. The President and Walter's wife are both inebriated and try to have sex but it goes wrong, a scuffle takes place between the two and in the process secret service agents break into the bedroom and fire shot which kills Walter's wife. Meanwhile Luther has witnessed all these and he escapes from there subtly while picking up the pen knife which was used in the scuffle. Luther has a daughter Kate (Laura Linney) who is a public prosecutor but who is also estranged from her father. Meanwhile detective Seth Frank (Ed Harris) starts investigation of the event. Kate agrees to meet her father at a café but while there he is shot at by two people, one of them being secret service agent and another a sharp shooter hired by Walter. Kate is then forced off her car into a cliff which seriously injures her. Luther saves her and is at the hospital when one of the secret service guy tries to kill her there, but Luther intercepts and puts him to rest. The case reaches its conclusion when Luther becomes the stand by driver of Walter and tells him the whole story. Nice gripping movie with good performances by Clint Eastwood and Laura Linney. 

Escape from Alcatraz

Escape from Alcatraz is a 1979 movie starring Clint Eastwood depicting the true story of a dramatic escape from maximum security prison at Alcatraz. Clint Eastwood plays Frank Morris who arrives at the Alcatraz prison for what we are not told, but to whom the warden informs that no one has ever escaped from his prison. Frank plans an escape with three others after finding that the concrete around his grill in his cell is weak and could be chipped away. Then they work around the plan over several months making a papier mache doll of his like image to ensure that he can rendezvous around the prison to find out his escape plan. On the appointed day, one of the four panics but the other three carefully make their way around the prison through various obstacles. From the prison to the main land is a mile long water body and where the water is so cold that people can drown in minutes of numbness. But these guys make a life raft out of rain coats.

Clint Eastwood as usual displays his deep stoic expression as in all his movies. There are no female characters. 

J. Edgar

J. Edgar - a 2011 biopic of the most controversial first director of FBI, J. Edgar Hoover and its director until his death in 1972. The film details all the dirty tricks he has done during his tenure and depicts his megalomaniac streak, his homosexuality, cross dressing, private files on top politicians like Richard Nixon etc. The secret files on Nixon and others were ostensibly destroyed by his long time secretary. The main lead brilliantly played by Leonardo Caprio and the female secretary played by Naomi Watts were brilliant. This is a brilliant hard hitting biopic directed by Clint Eastwood and does not depict Hoover in good light at all. Wonder why we don't get such hard hitting biopics against our political netas here or are the producers/ directors scared of the retribution!!