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Death Warmed Over Again

By Bill Gallo

The Pitch | March 22, 2005

Whatever kudos go to writer/director Dan Harris for the length of his reach in this family-crisis drama tend to be overshadowed by inexperience and enslavement to genre.

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Tags: Jeff Daniels, Emile Hirsch, Dan Harris, Imaginary Heroes, Michelle Williams and Jay Paulson, Sigourney Weaver

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Kansas City leaders may have shuttered the brothels and torn down the stockyards that once defined the town--and the mobsters may have blown themselves up in disco bombings back in the '70s--but there are still plenty of stories to tell...

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