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'Resurrecting the Champ'
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Most of Rod Lurie's movies have thus far been triumphs of inflation. Melodramas such as 2000's "The Contender" and 2002's "The Last Castle" are pumped up by schematic plots and Manichean black and white characterizations. "Resurrecting the Champ" breaks this pattern by conflating its many story lines and giving us morally grayer people to root for. Viewed one way, this is growth. Viewed another...
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