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2002 Stories by Jean Oppenheimer

• Rabbit Punch

  published December 26, 2002

  Based on the true story of three young aboriginal girls who walked 1,500 miles across the Australian Outback to be reunited with their mothers,... More >>

• Curve Ball

  published November 14, 2002

  The current TV ad campaign for the sleeper hit My Big Fat Greek Wedding plays cleverly on the film's cross-cultural appeal by substituting... More >>

• Foster Pussycat

  published October 10, 2002

  Good Lord, there hasn't been this much yellow hair on screen since the Von Trapp children sang and danced their way across the Alps in The... More >>

• Vote Here

  published September 5, 2002

  Iranian films that make it to American shores generally fall into two categories: sensitive dramas featuring young children, à la The... More >>

• The Wedding Zinger

  published March 7, 2002

  Cell phones and silk saris, dot-coms and arranged marriages -- Monsoon Wedding, the latest film from Indian-born director Mira Nair... More >>

• Tasty Danish

  published February 21, 2002

  To call a movie the most accessible film ever made by the Dogme 95 group is not merely damning with faint praise. It also threatens to alienate... More >>