Blood Work
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- This article is about the 2002 film. For another use, see blood test.
| Blood Work | |
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| 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 | $50 million (estimated) |
| Gross profits | $26.2 million |
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Blood Work is a 2002 suspenseful mystery-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 based on the 1998 novel by the same name from Edgar Award-winning writer Michael Connelly. Tagline:
- He's a heartbeat away from catching the killer.
[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; McCaleb, after whom a movie is supposedly modelled on (within the book's narrative), is found dead on his boat.
