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Well, as far as I'm concerned, any story that knocks SUVs is a good story.
Some crime knocks are wrongful, and sometimes officers have been known to arrest on sight someone they feel sure is at it and decide later on what they have arrested him for, sometimes even planting evidence.
Director Scott Hicks ( Shine ) takes a few knocks: "If ever there was an example of a director's getting in the way of a story, this is it" (David Ansen, Newsweek ). Strangely enough, Ethan Hawke--the film's biggest star--gets almost no mention.
Next to the museum, behind a gate (opened to anyone who knocks), is the Old Protestant Cemetery.
Truman himself encountered him, he wrote, in the form of mysterious knocks on the door and receding footfalls.