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BUGSY MALONE
January 22, 2020  | By David Bianculli

TCM, 10:00 p.m. ET

 
In 1976, as a young teen, Jodie Foster made several movies, each of them remarkably different in tone. She co-starred in the body-swap comedy Freaky Friday, playing a girl who temporarily changes bodies with her mother (Barbara Harris). She played an antisocial teen killer in The Little Girl Who Lives Down the Lane, and, most famously, a very young prostitute in Taxi Driver. But also that year, she played the singing moll in a Depression-era gangster movie – a movie in which all the roles are played by children, including the titular gangster, played by Scott Baio. TCM shows that film tonight – and it’s rarely televised, so take advantage.
 
 
 
 
 
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