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FAR AND AWAY
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lust and Cruise’s attempt at an Oirish class “(amok so "'8 smsnsiflaiiml accent. Sometimes it is stunning, (the Ihems ls equally loss. "Mess YO!" 09'" climactic Iandrush sequence is pertect Is I07 a WWW Young man. liberated torthe all-new Panavision Super 70mm "0'" his SN" '0' a "9M. (Thom WW") wide-screen lormat) but mostly it is sentimental, cliche-ridden tosh: as corny as they come. By the time Kidman murmurs to (real lile hubby) Cruise ‘Let's pretend that this home is ours, that you are my husband and I am your wile’, it’s tempting to barl into the F37 and Away (12) (“00 "Maid. US, popcorn and echo the cry at a prostitute 1992) Tom Cruise. NICOIB Kidman.
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