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Article: 'Monte-Cristo' is hero for all ages.(Arts and Lifestyle)
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- The Boston Herald
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- January 17, 2002
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Alexandre Dumas pere, one of the world's greatest storytellers, is also a colossus on the movie screen, and he would have been a colossus even if he had only written one unforgettable book: "The Count of Monte-Cristo."
Newly adapted for the screen and a Jan. 25 release by director Kevin Reynolds, whose previous credits ("Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves" and "Waterworld") do not exactly inspire confidence, with Jim Caviezel ("The Thin Red Line") in the title role, "The Count of Monte-Cristo" has captured the imaginations of people all over the world since its original newspaper serialization in France in 1844-45. Dumas' hero, Edmond Dantes, who uses the pseudonym ...