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The Paperboy is a 2012 American crime drama film co-written and directed by Lee Daniels and based on Pete Dexter 's 1995 novel of the same name. The novel was inspired by a true story. It follows Miami reporter Ward Jansen who returns to his hometown in Florida to investigate a murder case involving a death row inmate.
- $3.78 million
- Mario Grigorov
- $12.5 million
Oct 17, 2012 · The Paperboy: Directed by Lee Daniels. With Zac Efron, Matthew McConaughey, Nicole Kidman, John Cusack. A reporter returns to his Florida hometown to investigate a case involving a death row inmate.
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- Crime, Drama, Mystery
- Lee Daniels
- 2012-10-17
Oct 3, 2012 · "The Paperboy" is great trash, and as Pauline Kael told us, the movies are so seldom great art that if we can't appreciate great trash, we might as well not go at all. This is a humid, deep South wallow in raunch, with the wrong man on Death Row, the right man lurking in a swamp with his inbred family, a dead sheriff, a curious newspaper reporter, a slutty blond slattern, the younger man who ...
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Oct 5, 2012 · Rated: 3/5 • Oct 19, 2018. In 1969 Florida, reporter Ward Jansen (Matthew McConaughey) returns to his hometown to write a story about death-row inmate Hillary Van Wetter (John Cusack), who was ...
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- Lee Daniels
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- Matthew Mcconaughey
An idealistic reporter, Ward Jansen (McConaughey) and his younger brother, Jack Jansen (Efron) investigate the events surrounding a murder to exonerate a man on death row, Hillary Van Wetter (Cusack). Wetter has been jailed for the alleged murder of an unscrupulous local sheriff, Thurmond Call. Call had previously stomped Wetter's handcuffed ...
