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The Duke
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1hr 28min
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1999
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Walt Disney Video
Synopsis: Billed as Benji meets Howards End, this charming Canadian children's film concerns the struggle between a philanthropic duke (John Neville) and his sniveling nephew Cecil (Oliver Muirhead), who worries that his uncle is wasting his money by spending it on the poor. When the duke dies halfway through the movie, his American niece Charlotte (Courtnee Draper) takes over. Soon Charlotte falls in love with a dashing laborer (Jeremy Maxwell), while Cecil plots to stain the moral standing of the duke's ... Full Synopsis
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The director manages to evade both the stuffy antiquarianism and the pandering anachronism that subvert so many cinematic attempts at historical inquiry. Full Review
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72
Generally favorable reviews
out of 100
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The Duke Spirit, 2008 (Shangri-la)
The Duke Spirit, during a SPIN magazine interview at SXSW on March 13, 2008, in Austin, Texas (Jen...
The Duke Spirit perform at the 229 Club on Great Portland Street in London on Nov. 21, 2007. (Jen...
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