Movie Review of “The Mule”

 I watched the movie “The Mule”, which was directed by Clint Eastwood and he played the main character, Earl Stone.

A ‘Mule’ is a hybrid animal between a donkey and horse, and they are used to carry heavy burdens, so it also means a person who traffics drugs in American slang.


Earl was a successful horticultural farmer, and he had been so busy traveling for business that his family estranged him. 

Especially, not attending his daughter’s wedding ceremony decisively broke their relationship.

12 years later, Earl’s business failed because he couldn’t follow the trend of the Internet. 


When his grandchild got married, his family kicked him out of the party.

One of the attendees of the party greeted him to introduce a job, which was just to drive from Texas to Illinois with some baggage by someone’s direction.

Earl undertook this job without any doubt.


He enjoyed this job because he used to drive across the whole country for his business even though he was over 80.

However, it was such a dangerous job because there were drugs in the baggages.


Earl continued the job after he had realized it, because he gained a lot of money and he could avoid facing his loneliness while he worked. 



One day, his wife, Mary was gravely sick during his driving of this job.

He was wondering if he should go home or not, and his family was angry at his attitude, because Earl had always given priority to his job.

He wanted to see Mary from the bottom of his heart, but he supposed if he returned, the cartel would kill him. …


This movie was based on a real story, which had been reported in The New York Times.

I was surprised that Clint Eastwood had produced this movie when he was nearly 90, and he has been making films almost every year.


One movie review says that Earl Stone, the main character of this movie is similar to Eastwood, as he was so obsessed with his profession that he had divorced three times.



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