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Lions for Lambs (2008)

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CRUISE MISSIVE A prosaic message limits the punch of director Robert Redford's star-studded Lions for Lambs, new on DVD

Francois Duhamel

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Release Date: Nov 09, 2007; Rated: R; DVD Release Date: Apr 08, 2008; Genre: Drama; With: Meryl Streep and ; Distributor: MGM

By Vanessa Juarez

In Lions for Lambs, when an irritated professor (Robert Redford) asks a student ''Why don't you care anymore?'' he uses politics to draw the undergrad out of a complacent stupor. Despite solid turns by Meryl Streep as a journalist who's sold her soul to a conglom, and Tom Cruise as a slick senator, director Redford's prosaic message — stop going through the motions! — prevents Lambs from being truly transformative. EXTRAS Commentary from the trio reveals their hearts were in the right place: ''It's about making the right choices,'' says Streep, ''but it also is about how easy it is not to make a choice at all.'' B-

Posted Apr 11, 2008

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