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Tough going is nothing new for Reid, who was born 67 years ago in Searchlight, Nev., a Mojave Desert town so small that he had the same teacher for his first eight years of school. His father was a hard-drinking miner, and his mother took in washing from local brothels. As an adult, Reid converted to Mormonism. (He is to the right of his caucus on social issues, being against abortion and most gun-control measures...
Fast Food Nation Fox Searchlight Directed by Richard Linklater 1 Star If “Super-Size Me” is the documentary version of street-corner proselytizing against evil corporate junk food, “Fast Food Nation” is its object-lesson counterpart, tediously preaching to the proverbial choir. Director Richard Linklater’s much-anticipated feature film “Fast Food Nation” is not a documentary. Rather, it is a fictional account that dramatizes the nonfiction book by the same name, written by Eric Schlosser, the film’s co-author...
...Searchlight Pictures Directed by Kevin Macdonald 4.5 stars Forget “helping people” and “making a difference”—these are Nicholas Garrigan’s (James McAvoy, “The Chronicles of Narnia”) vague, romanticized hopes when, fresh out of medical school, he sets off for Uganda in “The Last King of Scotland.” But Garrigan painfully learns that idealism is not so simple, not to mention potentially dangerous, in this grittily realistic thriller based on the actual political climate of 1970s...
...Searchlight broke a Sundance record at the 2006 festival when it paid10.5 million for “Little Miss Sunshine,” no doubt hoping to mimic success found in recent indie sensations like “March of the Penguins,” which commanded a cool $77 million at the box office. Unquestionably, otherwise unknown artists benefit from the media frenzy...
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