The Paperboy
Contemporary Cinema
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1h 46m
Directed by Lee Daniels | 107 mins | 2012
Each shedding their actorly comfort zones, stars Matthew McConnaughey, Zac Efron, Nicole Kidman and John Cusack strike out for the Florida swamps in this heady and lurid sixties-set noir. They orbit an alleged murder by Cusack’s rough-hewn alligator hunter: McConnaughey as a reporter who’s returned to his native backwater to investigate, Efron as his admiring younger brother, and Kidman as the Southern sexpot who’s pledged herself to the alleged killer.
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