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<font size="4"><br>Tears of the Sun</font>
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<br>movie review by Gary Johnson</font>
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<p>In the production notes for <i>Tears of the Sun</i>, writer Alex Lasker talks about the movie's genesis as his effort (with co-writer Patrick Cirillo) to create his own <i>The Sand Pebbles</i>. His observation gives you a rough idea of where <i>Tears of the Sun</i> is headed. But the movies are very different. While <i>The Sand Pebbles</i> paid close attention to the lives of its characters and allowed them to exist as fully drawn people before thrusting them into battle, <i>Tears of the Sun</i> has no room for such a deliberate approach.
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