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Even hard men can have a soft centre, reckon the makers of Irish crime comedy I Went Down. Words Brian Donaldson
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this film’ (Brian Donaldson]
Selected release from Fri 23 Jan.
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A WlM WENDERS FILM
MUSIC BY RY COUDER
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Now Showing GFT, Glasgow
38 THE lIST 23 Jan—S Feb 1998
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Starts Fri 23rd Jan Filmhouse, Edinburgh
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