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It's a rarity these days of "director's cuts," "extended cuts," and all sorts of miscellaneous re-cuttings of motion pictures, that one arrives that's beautifully reconsidered, re-cut, and longer.... and it's far better than the theatrical original. No need to go into the battles that occurred...

Francis Coppola's Tucker: A Man and His Dream (1988), surprised me upon its original release with a superb performance by an un-billed actor, Lloyd Bridges. A nice touch. Father and son would appear together again in 1994, in Blown Away. Tucker is less a filmed biography, and more a...