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THE PAPER CHASE
January 15, 2014  | By David Bianculli

TCM, 10:15 p.m. ET

 

This 1973 movie, starring Timothy Bottoms as a first-year law student who fights through the classes of crusty Professor Kingsfield (John Houseman), is the movie I showed my daughter, Kristin, the weekend before she went away to attend law school. It scared her to death, she said later, but also prepared her for how seriously to take law school from the start. And she’s been a lawyer for years now so it worked. “Here’s a dime, Mr. Hart…”

 
 
 
 
 
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