Changeling saw Jolie work alongside Oscar winning director and actor Clint Eastwood and was based on real life events in 1928 Los Angeles.
In a working-class suburb, single mother Christine Collins (Jolie) says goodbye to her nine-year-old son, Walter, and leaves for her job as a telephone operator. But when Christine returns to their modest home, she is confronted with every parent’s worst nightmare: Her son has vanished.
Five months later, when a child, claiming to be her boy, is returned by police who are eager to bask in the public-relations coup of reuniting mother and child.
Dazed by the swirl of cops, reporters, photographers and her own conflicted emotions, Christine is persuaded to take the boy home. But in her heart, she knows he is not Walter.
Facing corrupt police who question her sanity and a skeptical public hungry for a fairy-tale ending, Christine desperately hunts for answers. As she searches, she becomes an unlikely heroine for the poor and downtrodden who have been systematically abused and swept aside by the police state that has gripped L.A.
The movie was a critical success and Jolie picked up a Best actress Oscar nomination, losing out to Kate Winslet.
5. Wanted
The same year that Jolie was wowing everyone with her dramatic performance in Changeling she was kicking everyone's ass in Timur Bekmambetov's first English speaking movie Wanted.
The anxious, clumsy and abused office clerk Wesley Allan Gibson has a hell and boring routine life: his obese boss humiliates him all the time and his girlfriend betrays him with his colleague and best friend during working period.
When he meets the sexy Fox, Wesley is informed that his father was a professional killer that belonged to an ancient organization called Fraternity and killed by the skilled and powerful Cross, a hit-man that has betrayed the Fraternity.
Wesley learns that his anxiety actually is a manifestation of his latent abilities and he joins the society under the command of Sloan. Trained by Fox, he changes his personality and attitude, being prepared to face the dangerous Cross and find a hidden secret.
The film took $341 million at the box office.
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