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Hugh Jackman and Claudia Karvan star as a truck driver and his friend who write a bestselling novel under pseudonyms. The film follows their romantic dilemma and adventure in Sydney and rural Australia.
Mar 25, 1999 · Paperback Hero: Directed by Antony J. Bowman. With Claudia Karvan, Hugh Jackman, Angie Milliken, Andrew S. Gilbert. An Australian truck driver writes romance novels.
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- Comedy, Romance
- Antony J. Bowman
- 1999-03-25
First of all, it is a rare feature film unapologetically set in Saskatchewan that is above all entertaining. More importantly though, it is a good comment on Canadian culture being influenced by ...
Sep 21, 1973 · A hockey player in a small town becomes obsessed with being a gunslinger in the Old West. IMDb provides cast and crew information, user and critic reviews, trivia, awards, and more for this 1973 film.
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- Drama, Sport
- Peter Pearson
- 1973-09-21
Paperback Hero is a 1973 Canadian film, directed by Peter Pearson, which starred Keir Dullea and Elizabeth Ashley. It is set in Saskatchewan and portrays the life of a big-fish minor-league hockey player in a little-pond town.
Jan 9, 2011 · Paperback Hero (1973), a film directed by Peter Pearson, is a uniquely Canadian account of a dying small prairie town and the way in which American pop mythology, especially Western movies, has impacted the national imagination.
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Paperback Hero. An Australian (Hugh Jackman) secretly uses his female friend's (Claudia Karvan) name as his nom de plume for a best-selling romantic novel. Silly concept and lame script but some...
- Romance, Comedy