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Holiday Movies 2006

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Good Shepherd: Andrew Schwartz

The Good Shepherd
Robert De Niro gets back behind the camera to look at the genesis of the CIA

Robert De Niro — as a director — has been MIA since 1993's A Bronx Tale. ''[The Good Shepherd] will have taken almost nine years to make,'' explains Jane Rosenthal, who cofounded Tribeca Productions with De Niro in 1989. ''Bob had so many acting commitments, and it was difficult to get it made in a pre-9/11 world.'' Shepherd concerns the birth of the CIA seen through the idealist eyes of agent Edward Wilson (Matt Damon). ''Angelina Jolie plays Wilson's wife and is very much a woman of the time,'' says Rosenthal. ''Her husband goes off to World War II and she becomes an independent woman while he's gone.'' —Vanessa Juarez


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