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`Buddy' indulges in too much monkey business.(Metropolitan Times)(Arts & Entertainment)(Movies)
From: The Washington Times
Date: 19970606
Author:Arnold, Gary
Caroline Thompson's admirable first feature, a remake of Anna Sewell's "Black Beauty," was released without fanfare three summers ago and failed to rally the literate family audience that should have welcomed it. Her new feature, "Buddy," proves a well-meaning fiasco. It demands an interlocked flair for domestic comedy and costume masquerade that eludes Miss Thompson grievously.
A belated biographical valentine to a forgotten, quixotic animal lover of the 1920s, the film casts Rene Russo as a New York socialite named Gertrude Davies Lintz who keeps a private zoo on her ...
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