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Not reviewed at press time. A broken-down collegiate football star gets a shot at real-estate stardom during the self-serving sub-prime mortgage boom of 2007.
This article appears in January 30 • 2015.
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Marjorie Baumgarten is a film critic and contributing writer at The Austin Chronicle, where she has worked in many capacities since the paper's founding in 1981. She served as the Chronicle's Film Reviews editor for 25 years. More by Marjorie Baumgarten
