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Acting
Hathaway's desperate bid for serious roles post-Princess Diaries.
Direction
Documentarian Barbara Kopple's strange fiction debut.
Costume
Peak 2005: low-rise jeans, trucker hats, cultural confusion.

Director
Barbara Kopple
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