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On his way to becoming an entrepreneur's entrepreneur, the Vietnam veteran suffered a number of setbacks and gained experience as a soldier, businessman, father, skier, and "Spiderman".
Night Train is a monologue, delivered by one Detective Mike Hoolihan, a physically intimidating, seen-it-all, tough-but-tender veteran of every rotten assignment in the police precincts of Anytown, USA.
Directed by the veteran John Frankenheimer, Ronin doesn't have the shorthand syntax of a '90s thriller.
John "Chip" Gray Jr., the project director at South Brooklyn Legal Services, and at 59 a veteran of poverty law, said he likes to find lawyers in private practice willing to scale back.
Critics can't say enough good things about the film: It is "audacious, accomplished" (Emanuel Levy, Variety ), "a delicately conceived, fearless film" that is like "a long tragic poem" (David Denby, The New Yorker ), "one of the year's best" (Roger Ebert, the Chicago Sun-Times ). The New York Times ' Maslin calls it a "stunning debut feature" for director Kimberly Peirce, and Entertainment Weekly 's Owen Gleiberman calls Hilary Swank, a Beverly Hills 90210 veteran who plays Brandon, "extraordinary."