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This Charming Film

ou can’t quite smell the leather that’s “run smooth on the passenger seat” in character Cleo’s vintage Volkswagen Beetle on the day in 1987 that her favorite band, the Smiths, broke up. But gay director (and die-hard Smiths fan) Stephen Kijak’s film so teems with

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