Gran Torino
A widowed Korean War veteran confronts his own bigotry when he takes a Hmong teenager under his wing after the boy tries to steal his classic car, then faces the gang that threatens the family. Gran Torino follows Walt Kowalski, a recently widowed Korean War veteran and retired Detroit autoworker who lives alone with his dog and his meticulously kept 1972 Gran Torino. Surrounded by a changing neighborhood now filled with Hmong immigrant families, the gruff, foul-mouthed Walt openly resents his new neighbors and rebuffs the young priest who keeps trying to draw him back to church. When shy teenager Thao Lor is pressured by a local Hmong gang into attempting to steal the Gran Torino as an initiation, Walt catches him and drives the gang off his lawn with a rifle. Thao’s sister Sue later approaches Walt, explaining the family’s situation and gradually pulling the reluctant old man into thei