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...routine spring drill, Leiszler tore the ACL in his left knee. As Butler’s story demonstrated, normally such an injury is a temporary setback and only requires surgery and recuperation. But for Leiszler, it was his third such injury in three years. The doctors delivered a grim prognosis and chances are slim that Leiszler will ever play football again...
...wasn't exactly humming on the way out of "Thou Shalt Not." But I was happy to have seen a musical that takes on a nearly impossible task - creating an entertaining musical out of grim tragedy - with originality and flair. It deserves more than a one-way ticket to the morgue...
...wasn't exactly humming on the way out of "Thou Shalt Not." But I was happy to have seen a musical that takes on a nearly impossible task - creating an entertaining musical out of grim tragedy - with originality and flair. It deserves more than a one-way ticket to the morgue...
...combat. The former organizes a revolt against the latter's sadism, wrapping his improbable efforts in the flag. Somehow, joining the prison riot is made to seem an act of high patriotism. Redford underacts, Gandolfini overacts, and this movie is directed with the same air of unreality, the same grim passion for cliches, both cinematic and emotional, that Lurie brought to his first film, The Contender...
...grim road ahead