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...beginnings of determination working in the very way Jolie holds herself. It’s a good thing Jolie’s performance is so solid, because she carries most of the weight of the film. The accompanying cast includes John Malkovich, who plays Gustav Briegleb, a Presbyterian reverend who has made it his life goal to expose the LAPD for the fraud it is, and Jeffery Donovan as the unscrupulous J.J. Jones, captain of the LAPD juvenile investigation unit. Despite their roots in a true story, both characters seem flat. Briegleb, with a single-mindedness that is more annoying...
...Angeles Hospital, in the company of other women with the potential to embarrass the cops. ("If we're insane," says Amy Ryan as a prostitute subjected to electroshock therapy for her outspokenness, "nobody has to listen to us.") Her only ally is a preacher and radio crusader, Gustav Briegleb (John Malkovich), who sees Christine's case as another heinous example of the police department's venality...
...Angeles Hospital, in the company of other women with the potential to embarrass the cops. ("If we're insane," says Amy Ryan as a prostitute subjected to electroshock therapy for her outspokenness, "nobody has to listen to us.") Her only ally is a preacher and radio crusader, Gustav Briegleb (John Malkovich), who sees Christine's case as another heinous example of the Police Dept.'s venality...
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