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As an old man threads a fishing line on the Big Blackfoot River, a narrator (Robert Redford) begins: “Long ago, when I was a young man, my father said to me, ‘Norman, you like to write stories.’ And I said, ‘Yes, I do.’ Then he said, ‘Some day when you are ready, [...]

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In a small California town in the early 1960s, several stories unfold on the night of high school graduation: Terry “The Toad” (Charles Martin Smith) crashes his Vespa into Mel’s Drive-In. Class president Steve Bolander (Ron Howard) is ready to leave “this turkey town” in the morning, while Curt Henderson (Richard Dreyfuss) [...]

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Disc jockey Dave Garver (Clint Eastwood) opens his show at jazz station KRML in Carmel by promising “a little verse, a little talk, and five hours of music to be very, very nice to each other by.” A regular female caller phones in and purrs, “Play ‘Misty’ for me.” Winding down at [...]

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“I reckon what you is wantin’ to know is what I’m doin’ in here. I reckon the reason I’m in here is because I killed somebody.” After explaining to a school reporter why he killed his mother and her lover at the age of twelve with a sling blade, mentally challenged Karl [...]

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