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The Paperboy
Overview
A man (John Cusack) convicted of killing a seedy sheriff is given a new life when a female pen pal (Nicole Kidman) enlists the aid of two journalists to try and get him off death row. PRECIOUS' Lee Daniels adapts Pete Dexter's novel.
Awards:
Main Cast & Crew:
Lee Daniels - Director
Zac Efron
Matthew McConaughey
Nicole Kidman
John Cusack
David Oyelowo
Scott Glenn
Ned Bellamy
Macy Gray
Edrick Brown
John Fertitta
Details
- Format: DVD (Digital Copy)
- Run Time: 107
- UPC: 687797136992
- Genre: DRAMA
- Rating: R (MPAA)
- Release Date: January 2013
Movie Reviews
Reviews:
"Both Efron and McConaughey get very messed up physically, and both actors seem stimulated to be playing such flawed characters. Kidman exults in tramping it up but also reveals Charlotte’s superficial strength and more fundamental weakness." - 05/24/2012 Hollywood Reporter
"[Kidman] is a force of nature, more vulnerable, more sensual than she has ever been....The freedom she exudes is intoxicating..." - 10/04/2012 Los Angeles Times
3 stars out of 4 -- "THE PAPERBOY is the first film directed by Lee Daniels since he made PRECIOUS, and it shows the same instinct for overwrought melodrama." - 10/03/2012 Chicago Sun-Times
3.5 stars out of 5 -- "[D]efinitely memorable....[A] passionate film about the most passionate thing of all: infatuation." - 10/04/2012 Box Office
3 stars out of 5 -- "A superb Kidman takes off the handbrake..." - 03/08/2013 Empire
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