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Title: Doesn't live up to expectations.
Review: I bought The Paper Chase on DVD because I like courtroom dramas (Perry Mason, The Verdict, 12 Angry Men, etc.) and I also like school dramas (The Emperor's Club). This film had no courtroom drama and very little in the classroom. John Houseman's scenes are the best, but he's only in a dozen very brief scenes, with perhaps a couple dozen lines in the whole film. The rest is like a soap opera set at Harvard, and very disappointing compared to the expectations set from reading other reviews here.
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