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adaptation is intricately constructed and in a strange way nails all of orlean 's themes without being a true adaptation of her book .

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that 's as lumpy as two-day old porridge ... the filmmakers ' paws , sad to say , were all over this '' un-bear-able '' project

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its use of the thriller form to examine the labyrinthine ways in which people 's lives cross and change , buffeted by events seemingly out of their control , is intriguing , provocative stuff .

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want to be jolted out of their gourd
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