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Article: 'Road to Perdition' DVD a showcase of movie craft; History Channel documentaries distributed on disc.(WASHINGTON WEEKEND)(PHANTOM OF THE MOVIES)
- Article from:
- The Washington Times (Washington, DC)
- Article date:
- March 6, 2003
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Byline: THE WASHINGTON TIMES
Lavishly adapted by director Sam Mendes of "American Beauty" from the graphic novel by writer Max Allan Collins and illustrator Richard Piers Rayner, Road to Perdition is new from Dreamworks Entertainment (priced for rental VHS, $26.99 DVD). It rates as a reel rarity: an often-elegiac coming-of-age story draped in vintage gangster-movie threads. It's our ...
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