But if you want to speculate about why the film speaks to a mass audience, there’s one other key ingredient in the equation. Once Clint’s character in ‘Gran Torino’ is moved to action ...

In 2008, "Gran Torino" became the first major U.S. film to feature Hmong American actors. Among them was Bee Vang, then a 15-year-old newcomer who portrayed Thao Lor, a neighbor to Clint Eastwood ...

In Clint Eastwood’s newest film, the actor-director plays a retired ... to steal his prized 1972 Gran Torino, as part of the youth’s reluctant initiation into a Hmong street gang, Kowalski ...

Which brings us to “Gran Torino,” Eastwood’s second directing project this fall, his first work as an actor since 2004’s “Million Dollar Baby” and a film that would be less interesting ...