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Your support makes all the difference.This is what a friend of mine would call a "gobber" – so bad, it makes you want to spit. Christina Ricci plays the high-born heroine of the title, afflicted by a witch's curse that has turned her nose into a pig's snout. Only the love of a fellow "blueblood" – such as James McAvoy's hapless gambler – can break the curse. The film is set in London, so why does almost the entire cast talk in American accents? Well, I suppose it chimes with the American ambivalence over body perception (you can be ugly, but only for so long) and the American reverence for money and the aristocracy. Just horrible.
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