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Something Wicked This Way Comes (1983)
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"What to say about Manderlay? Writer/director Lars von Trier follows up his 2003 film, Dogville, with a continuation of the story. Sort of. Grace leaves Dogville with her gangster father, and they travel until they come upon a plantation where slavery is still in effect, even though it is now the 1930s. This time, however, Grace is played by Bryce Dallas Howard ("Spider-Man 3") instead of Nicole Kidman ("The Golden Compass"), and James Caan ("Elf") has become Willem Dafoe ("Anamorph"). Maybe I got too caught up in the compare and contrast. Maybe it had been too long since I had seen Dogville, which I enjoyed, but I just did not feel this movie. Howard's naivete drove me crazy, and I couldn't remember Kidman being so oblivious in the first film. The first hour and a half had me shaking my fist trying to figure out why everyone was behaving the way they were. But the second hour and a half were a bit more interesting examination of socia ... "
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