Eastwood stars in Gran Torino as Walt Kowalski, an embittered, curmudgeonly widower and Korea War veteran who spews racial slurs such as “gook,” “zipperhead,” “dago,” and “spook ...

Gran Torino is utterly predictable: You know Thao is somehow going to manage to soften Walt’s crusty exterior (although he’ll never be able to stop him from calling him ”zipperhead”) and ...

Part modern-day Western, part vigilante flick, part after-school special, Clint Eastwood’s oddball drama “Grand Torino” remains ... Her), whom he calls “zipperhead” and “dragon lady ...

Gran Torino follows Walt Kowalski (Eastwood), who is a widow and Korean War veteran. His family alienates him and he’s angry at the world. Walt’s young neighbor, Thao Vang Lor (Vang), tries to ...

These were assisted by several slick supporting characters, including Antonio Fargas as the streetwise informant Huggy Bear and the duo's uber-cool, customized Ford Gran Torino cop car.

The snarly mouthed Clint Eastwood of the 1970s comes growling back to life in "Gran Torino." In his first screen appearance since 2004’s “Million Dollar Baby,” Eastwood revives memories of ...