Kids, here's a hint: Don't think you can pass a sophomore English exam on F. Scott Fitzgerald's jazz age classic and high school reading list perennial by watching this movie. While this version of the story of a man who changes everything about his life so that he can win back the woman he loves hits the Cliff's notes highlights, spending more time on the green light on the dock than Gatsby and on the eyeglass billboard than Nick Carraway, co-writer and director Baz Luhrmann misses the forest...
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