Gran Torino

Gran Torino

Language : English
Year : 2008
Medical Theme : Tuberculosis
Actors : Clint Eastwood, Bee Vang, Ahney Her
Storyline : Walter Kowalski is an angry old Korean war veteran, who lives with his tuberculosis, alone after being widowed recently. Kowalski lives in Detroit, in a neighborhood where the Hmong people have started settling in large numbers after the Vietnam War. Kowalski at first dislikes his Vietnam neighbors but later starts to like them and becomes very close to Thao, a young boy and Sue, his elder sister. Things are going smooth at first but soon Thao gets into trouble with the local Vietnam boys and the rest of the story is about how Kowalski manages to save Thao and his sister from those boys.