Friends who grew up in working-class Boston they drift apart after a terrible tragedy. Years later brutal events reconnect them. Jimmy's 19 year-old daughter is coldly murdered. Dave is a suspect. & Sean now a cop scrambles to solve the crime before volatile Jimmy takes the law into his own hands. Working from Brian Helgeland's adaptation of Dennis Lehane's novel director Clint Eastwood shapes a masterwork a brooding thriller built on a family friends & innocence lost. Sean Penn Tim Robbins & Kevin Bacon play the pivotal threesome joining Laurence Fishburne Marcia Gay Harden & Laure Linney in one of the most powerful casts ever. The river has may depths. Let it wash over you.