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It's a man's world in month #2 of the Formerly Dangerous Movie Club

It's a man's world in month #2 of the Formerly Dangerous Movie Club

Jennifer Jason Leigh burns bright; Nicholson horns it up; and we head to the '70s for a delicious head-to-head between Lee Marvin and Gene Hackman

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This is a man’s world.

This month’s films may not reveal an immediate or obvious connection, but as you watched, I’m curious to see if you guys felt a thematic unity snap into focus or not.

It can depend on what order you see them in and what’s going on as you watch them, but I thought the three of them together were a real gut-punch. Each for a different…

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