Word: noirland
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...never a happy one--ask Philip Marlowe. But he didn't have to fight racism while trying to fight crime. Easy Rawlins (Denzel Washington), a black man, does. And it grants Carl Franklin's cool, crisp adaptation of Walter Mosley's novel (set in classic noirland, '40s L.A.) the edge, weight and revitalizing relevance long needed by a genre often made limply nostalgic...
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