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www.washingtonpost.com - : As Nicholas Van Orton, Michael Douglas is a San Francisco investment banker worth millions, whose human relationships are less than liquid. He’s divorced. He’s only occasionally in touch with his kid brother, Conrad (Sean Penn), who has his share of behavioral problems. We learn that, as a child, Nicholas witnessed his 48-year-old father leap to his death. Nicholas lives alone with his father’s housekeeper in a castle-cum-prison of a home. It’s clearly time for this ’90s Scrooge to get in touch with his inner bile and learn valuable lessons about himself and people. more...
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www.boxoffice.com - : Making high-profile debuts this September, new major distributors DreamWorks (''The Peacemaker'') and Polygram (''The Game'') have both done themselves proud. Right from their openings, each film boasts an electricity to its genre exercise unusual for audience programmers. As mainstream entertainments, each must be considered a success. In the film-as-art category, however, it's ''The Game'' that pretends to have the reach, and it's here that the Propaganda production falls short. Although popcorn-movie devotees should leave theatres amply satisfied, cineastes will feel shortchanged. more...
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