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...proof of these dour bromides is found in five new movies about kids. Two are from abroad: Gianni Amelio's Italian drama Il Ladro di Bambini (Stolen Children) and Jean-Claude Lauzon's Leolo, from Quebec. Three are from Disney: Duwayne Dunham's Homeward Bound: The Incredible Journey, Mikael Salomon's A Far Off Place and Stephen Sommers' The Adventures of Huck Finn...
...movies dare to dwell. Some of 1992's most ; provocative and poignant European films -- Toto le Heros, Olivier Olivier and The Long Day Closes, to be released in the U.S. in May -- are about children whom cruelty or circumstance forces to create a world of their own. Il Ladro di Bambini has this theme. The state has removed two children (Valentina Scalici and Giuseppe Ieracitano) from their mother's care, since for two years she has forced the girl, 11, to be a child prostitute. A naive policeman (Enrico Lo Verso) is directed to take them to an orphanage, where...
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