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Title: By the numbers pap
Review: I rented this film because I love Tom Conti, and when he's on screen, I enjoyed it. Otherwise, it's formulaic and stagey: the characters are two-dimensional, the plot development obvious in the extreme. Anyone who's surprised by anything here must never have seen another movie or read a novel.I was particularly offended that we're told in advance of his entrance "not to be put off by the physical appearance" of character James Percy, as if here deformed or disfigured in some way. So who walks in but Thomas Gibson, looking like a dark-haired Adonis. This is Hollywood TV at it's shallowest.Another reviewer said the movie is far better than the book. It must be truly ghastly.
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