One of Angelina Jolie’s films to come out this year is called Changeling.

It is directed by Clint Eastwood and is the true story of Christine Collins, a Los Angeles woman who endured horrors at the hands of corrupt police in her crusade to find out what happened to her son after he vanished in 1928.

The movie will make it’s debut late Tuesday at this year’s Cannes Film Festival.

Jolie, 32, delivers a heartbreaking performance as Christine Collins, a single mom who relentlessly works so she can take good care of her 9-year-old boy, Walter.

The child disappears, and five months later, the distraught Christine is overjoyed when police tell her Walter has been found, alive and well.

But when the boy claiming to be Walter Collins is returned to her, Christine insists that he isn’t her son.

She ends up in a horrible battle with bureaucrats trying to cover up their own mistakes.

At the same time thugs in the police department brand her an unfit mother who wants to shirk her responsibilities as a parent.

Christine eventually is tossed into a psychiatric ward by police seeking to silence her.

Changeling co-stars John Malkovich as a minister who comes to Christine’s aid; and Amy Ryan, an Oscar nominee for last year’s Gone Baby Gone, as a prostitute who befriends her in the psych ward.

The film touches on some themes familiar to Eastwood, who also dealt with child abduction and abuse in A Perfect World and Mystic River, two other amazing movies of his.

“Children in danger, of course, is about the highest form of drama you can have,” Eastwood said. “Crimes against children are to me the most heinous. … When one comes along quite as big as this one, you question humanity. It never ceases to surprise me how cruel humanity can be.”

Though Jolie said she could imagine the pain and frustration if she were in Christine’s situation, she had to look beyond her own children and position as a “very modern and very outspoken woman” to play the character.

Christine fought her battle at a time when women did not have the same power to speak their minds as today, Jolie said. So Jolie found inspiration in her own mother, actress Marcheline Bertrand, who died in January 2007.

“To me, she’s very much like my mother,” Jolie said. “My mother was very passive in many ways and very, very sweet, but when it came to her children, she was a lion. But as a woman, very shy with her own voice. So in many ways, Christine reminded me of my mom, and it was a way to kind of revisit my mother after her passing and spend time with her.”

This movie is set in one of my favorite time periods (look at that hair- so beautiful!), so I am very excited to see it! Since it just debuted in Cannes, I’m sure there will be reviews published about it soon.

I really don’t think this movie will fair poorly because 1. Angelina is amazing and 2. Clint Eastwood directed it. Now all we have to do is wait until November for it to be released.

Anybody else as anxious as I am now to see it?!