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starstarstarstar Jeff Vice - Deseret News
starstarstar Susan Stark - Detroit News
starstarstar Stephen Holden - NY Times
starstarstar Roger Ebert - Chicago Sun-Times
starstarstar Owen Gleiberman - EW
starstarstar John Hartl - Seattle Times
starstarstar James Berardinelli - ReelViews
starstarstar Desson Howe - Washington Post
starstarstar Andy Seiler - USA Today
starstarstar Margaret McGurk - Cincinnati Enquirer
starstarstar Joe Baltake - Sacramento Bee
starstarstar Chris Kaltenbach - Baltimore Sun
starstarstar Norman Green - Film.com
starstar Shawn Levy - Portland Oregonian
star Maitland McDonagh - TV Guide

It has some of the everyman appeal of the British sleeper hit, The Full Monty, which certainly doesn’t hurt

- Jeff Vice

A freak show cloaked in the mantle of a crowd-pleasing comedy, [it] plays both sides of the fence, laughing at its low class protagonists while making like it’s laughing with them

- Maitland McDonagh

The Castle

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Australian comedy about a close-knit family which fights to stay in their home after they're informed that the airport will expand onto their property. Michael Caton, Anne Tenney, Stephen Curry, Anthony Simcoe, Sophie Lee, Wayne Hope, Tiriel Mora, Eric Bana, Costas Kilias. Director: Rob Stitch (1997, R)

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