November 21, 2009
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Another Kind of Taxicab Confession

Goodbye Solo (Lionsgate; on DVD)

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How’s this for an example of Obama’s America? An Iranian American filmmaker makes a movie set in his hometown, Winston-Salem, North Carolina, about a charismatic young Senegalese taxi driver and his elderly Southern-born passenger. Director Ramin Bahrani (

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