eastwood should never have be able to get his hand on the movie right . the book be completely true . i be from savannah . eastwood even change some of the people completely and for example mandy be actually nothing like eastwood daughter in the movie . the real mandy and ( whom i know personally ) and be involve with joe odom and never have a romance with john berendt ( kelso in the movie ) . i think eastwood want to give his daughter a movie role so he just cast her without even think or care about the real story . he do not correctly portray many of the people in the book . almost the entire trial scene in the movie be untrue . like i say and eastwood should have never get his hand on the movie right . if you want the true story and read the book and burn the movie . my rating of this film be a 0 .