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Rating: 2 Stars Shine (Scott Hicks, 1996, Australia)

A huge popular success but essentially unremarkable film that derives sympathy partly from its factual basis but mainly by milking the conventions of the "triumph of the human spirit" story. Geoffry Rush's Oscar for Best Actor exemplifies the Academy's equation of caricature and/or disability with good acting. BH

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