Blood Work (film)

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Blood Work
Original theatrical poster
Directed by	Clint Eastwood
Produced by	Clint Eastwood
Written by	Brian Helgeland
Starring	Clint Eastwood Jeff Daniels Anjelica Huston Wanda De Jesus
Music by	Lennie Niehaus
Distributed by	Warner Bros.
Release date(s)	August 9, 2002
Running time	110 mins.
Language	English
Budget	$30 million (estimated)
Gross revenue	$26.2 million
IMDb profile

Blood Work is a 2002 mystery suspense thriller starring Clint Eastwood, Jeff Daniels, Wanda De Jesus and Anjelica Huston. Eastwood also directed.

Eastwood won the Future Film Festival Digital Award at the Venice Film Festival. It is loosely based on the 1998 novel by the same name from Edgar Award-winning writer Michael Connelly.

Contents 1 Plot 2 Blood Work in the Michael Connelly universe 3 Cast 4 External links

[edit] Plot

Terry McCaleb (Eastwood) is an ailing veteran FBI agent who's been given a second chance by receiving the heart of a murder victim. Terry is visited by the murder victim's sister (De Jesus), reminding him that he is alive only because of receiving the deceased's heart, and asks him to investigate who killed her. He later finds out that someone is killing people who are registered as organ donors.

[edit] Blood Work in the Michael Connelly universe

Blood Work as a movie franchise is referenced in Michael Connelly's The Narrows (2004); McCaleb, after whom a movie is supposedly modelled on (within the book's narrative), is found dead on his boat.

[edit] Cast

• Clint Eastwood as Terry McCaleb
• Jeff Daniels as Jasper 'Buddy' Noone
• Anjelica Huston as Dr. Bonnie Fox
• Wanda De Jesus as Graciella Rivers
• Tina Lifford as Detective Jaye Winston
• Paul Rodriguez as Detective Ronaldo Arrango
• Dylan Walsh as Detective John Waller
• Mason Lucero as Raymond Torres
• Gerry Becker as Mr. Toliver
• Rick Hoffman as James Lockridge
• Alix Koromzay as Mrs. Cordell
• Igor Jijikine as Mikhail Bolotov
• Dina Ruiz Eastwood as Reporter #1
• Beverly Leechas Reporter #2
• June Kyoto Lu as Mrs. Kang

[edit] External links

• Blood Work at the Internet Movie Database
• Jeff Daniels interview for Blood Work

v • d • e Novels by Michael Connelly Harry Bosch series: The Black Echo • The Black Ice • The Concrete Blonde • The Last Coyote • Trunk Music • Angels Flight • A Darkness More Than Night • City of Bones • Lost Light • The Narrows • The Closers • Echo Park • The Overlook Other novels: The Poet • Blood Work • Void Moon • Chasing the Dime • The Lincoln Lawyer • The Brass Verdict

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