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Your Pre-Holiday Guide to Downer Films
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Photographs: Courtesy of United Artists (Lions for Lambs); Buena Vista Pictures/Everett Collection (Dan in Real Life); Macall Polay/Courtesy of Focus Features (Reservation Road); Courtesy of Paramount Pictures (Things We Lost in the Fire); Sam Emerson/Courtesy of New Line Cinema (Rendition); Richard Foreman/Courtesy of Miramax Films (No Country for Old Men); Lorey Sebastian/Courtesy of Elah Finance V.O.F. (In the Valley of Elah); Courtesy of Magnolia Pictures (Redacted); Chuck Zlotnick/Courtesy of Paramount Vantage (Into the Wild); Will Hart/Courtesy of Thinkfilm (Before the Devil Knows You’re Dead); Claire Folger/Courtesy of Miramax Films (Gone Baby Gone); Ken Regan/Courtesy of Paramount Vantage (Margot at the Wedding)
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