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american beauty

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Life’s a Happy Song: The Movie Scores that Stick With Us

November 6, 2012

What is it about a great piece of musical accompaniment?

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Ryan McNeil
festivals, reactions, TIFF adam driver, alan ball, american beauty, bryan cranston, christina hendricks, george strombolopolous, jason reitman, mae whitman, nick kroll, paul scheer, sarah gadon, TIFF 2012

Jason Reitman’s AMERICAN BEAUTY Table Read plays TIFF 2012

September 7, 2012

Thirteen years after AMERICAN BEAUTY took the TIFF Audience Choice Award, the festival brings it back for an encore…a very special encore.

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Ryan McNeil
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