Changeling

Changeling has been released on DVD.

The central character in 'Changeling' is Christine Collins (Angelina Jolie), a working-class single mother who comes home from her job one day to discover her nine-year-old son Walter has gone missing. A few months later, the corrupt LAPD delivers to Christine a boy they insist is Walter, but she knows is not. Soon she finds herself incarcerated in a psychiatric ward. Meanwhile, an investigation is conducted that leads to a creepy serial killer.

The only bonus materials on the Changeling DVD are two video featurettes with a total runtime of 18 minutes.

"Partners in Crime: Clint Eastwood and Angelina Jolie" is a reasonably interesting 13-minute making-of. The screenwriter, J. Michael Straczynski, talks about discovering transcripts at Los Angeles City Hall of Christine Collins hearings dated October 1928. Eastwood, producer Brian Grazer, the costumer and the production designer all speak briefly about making the film. Jolie, Malkovich, child actor Gattlin Griffith and several other actors discuss what it is was like to work with Eastwood.

The other extra is the five-minute "The Common Thread: Angelina Jolie Becomes Christine Collins," which contains some information about the lead actress' wardrobe, including the 1920s-style jacket with a dropped waist, a cloche hat and a 1930s dress she wears toward the end of the movie. Those were clip-on roller skates she wore in the scene where her character was working as the supervisor of a group of telephone operators.