Mule, The

While a feisty, gutsy, and tenacious 90-year-old horticulturist and WWII veteran (Clint Eastwood), who is estranged from his ex-wife (Dianne Wiest) and adult daughter (Alison Eastwood), begins working for a ruthless Mexican drug lord (Andy Garcia) and his henchmen (Clifton Collins Jr., Ignacio Serricchio, Robert LaSardo, et al.) to earn money to get his Illinois home out of foreclosure, to pay for the open bar at the wedding of his granddaughter (Taissa Farmiga), and to help his local, financially troubled VFW in this entertaining, amusing, original, factually based, well-acted, low-key, evenly-paced, 116-minute film inspired by Sam Dolnick's New York Times Magazine article The Sinaloa Cartel's 90-Year Old Drug Mule, stumped DEA agents (Bradley Cooper, Laurence Fishburne, and Michael Peña) try to figure out the identity of the drug runner who is transporting cocaine from Illinois to Texas.
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