It's an inspiring story, if one that doesn't need quite as much poetic inspiration as Ed Zwick's movie insists on giving it, with dialogue that's too often ornate and parable-inflected.
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This review of Defiance (2008) was written by Bob Mondello and published by NPR on 11 Oct 2011.
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