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This director’s cut restores the Bruce Springsteen tunes that were eliminated from the original release and a few other scene snippets, but otherwise it remains an emotionally involving story of an unconventional biker mom (Cher) and her egregiously deformed son (Stoltz), who try to get the most from life.
This article appears in April 15 • 2005.
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