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mudvillegazette.com - 3/14/2009
Taking Chance: HBO's "most-watched original movie in five years"
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Wall Street Journal : It's been widely observed that movies about the Iraq war have tended to bomb at the box office. One newspaper report speculated that films like "Home of the Brave" and "Stop-Loss" failed because "the audience might prefer a longer interval before viewing events as ...

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Mudville Gazette: Taking Chance: HBOs most-watched original movie in five years
Victory Caucus -- All Content — ... Journal:Its been widely observed that movies about the Iraq war have tended to bomb at the box office. One newspaper report speculated that films like Home of the Brave and Stop-Loss failed because the audience might prefer a longer interval before viewing events as troubling as war. Taking Chance refutes this notion. When it debuted February 21 on HBO, it became the networks most-watched original movie in five years, drawing two million viewers -- especially impressive given that... read ...

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