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Word: obviousnessã (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 2001-2001
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...Walt Whitman in the same breath as issuing a tide of expletives. After a young highway hustler fulfills the obligatory role as an intoxicatingly unruly and unreliable friend, Howie finds comfort in the company of Big John, a heartily patriotic pederast. While the film occasionally veers into heavy-handed obviousness??€”could Howie be looking for a father figure to supplant his own crooked contractor dad?—and the ending is disappointingly inane, it resists the usual topical temptation for sensationalism. L.I.E. also manages to avoid the standard genre trick of trotting out every bland hypocrisy behind...

Author: By Irin Carmon, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: The Truth About L.I.E. | 10/12/2001 | See Source »

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