The Mule

Clint Eastwood was done telling stories about real heroes for a bit, and he turned his attention to a role he could pick up himself. His first self-directed acting role since Gran Torino a decade before, this feels like Eastwood finding a story that tickled him and finding the money for it quickly. Based on the real life adventures of Leo Sharp, a WWII vet who became a drug mule for the Mexican drug cartels, Eastwood and his screenwriter Nick Schenk, created a fictional character (this time ...