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A Modern-Day Mark Twain Story


Twain would've had a hard time writing a tomboy heroine-- that Victorian upbringing thing he had-- but if he'd grown up in modern times, this is the kind of story he would've written, especially when he was just starting out. The Tom Sawyer flavor of this movie is pronounced, and it's well-done enough, I think he'd have been proud to have written it.

"I don't deduce, I observe."

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