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Coppola's `Dracula': Nothing to sink your teeth into

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From: The Boston Globe
Date: 19921113
Author:Jay Carr, Globe Staff

BRAM STOKER'S DRACULA

Directed by: Francis Ford Coppola

Screenplay by: James V. Hart (novel: Bram Stoker)

Starring: Gary Oldman, Winona Ryder, Anthony Hopkins,

Keanu Reeves, Richard E. Grant, Cary Elwes, Bill Campbell,

Sadie Frost, Tom Waits

Playing at: Cheri, suburbs

Rated: R (sexuality and horror violence)

With "Bram Stoker's Dracula," Francis Ford Coppola comes down firmly -- but too distractingly -- on the side of the vampire as tormented romantic. For a while, Gary Oldman's wickedly intelligent Dracula fights the swirl of visuals Coppola puts around him. Finally ...

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