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There's gentleness and food for thought in an often violent '40 Acres'

The movie thriller 40 ACRES is set in a world of famine, violence and lots of guns. The film also provides "food" for thought.

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Bob Mondello, who jokes that he was a jinx at the beginning of his critical career — hired to write for every small paper that ever folded in Washington, just as it was about to collapse — saw that jinx broken in 1984 when he came to NPR.

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