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Redford lectures in tedious drama 'Lions for Lambs'

Article from: Sun, The: Plainfield (IL) Article date: November 9, 2007

"Lions for Lambs" should hand out political-science degrees to audience members on their way out of the theater. It's the least the filmmakers could do for those who actually sit through the entire picture.

Three lectures for the price of one, this Robert Redford-directed political drama is set in our Iraq-mired present and alternates among a trio of jerry-built storylines.

In the first, a veteran reporter (Meryl Streep) and a pompous politician debate the mistakes made in Iraq. In the second, a professor (Redford) lectures an apathetic ...

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