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FILM REVIEW: Plodding 'Legend of Bagger Vance' runs a sappy course
News Wire article from: University Wire ...narrates The Legend of Bagger...on a golf course. The question...life in his films. Fly-fishing...in A River Runs Through It...Legend of Bagger Vance attempts to...look at, ...

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