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 | | Set in London, Nick Hornby's 1995 novel chronicles the life, loves and musical obsessions of Rob Gordon, the thirtyish owner of both a failing record store and a recently broken heart. |
 | | The film bogs down in the middle, then rushes to cram too many revelations into the last 15 minutes, but John Cusack, as Rob, and the gang capture the book's music-loving, list-obsessed spirit with such loving accuracy, it's easy to forgive its minor transgressions. |
 | | The movie has all the trappings of the standard mega-'toon show: speed, wild shifts of perspective, fire and water effects, funny critters, a monster, characters who are cartoonishly flippant right down to a DNA level. |
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