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mope
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Casey Affleck mopes around for director Steve Buscemi.
Playing the title role, the elfin Zoe Wanamaker mopes around in a brown coat that must be a man's extra-large (it's her father's, no doubt) and wipes her nose with a cuff so long it obscures her hand.
As Jeremy (Estevez) mopes around the house, passive and resentful and afflicted by vivid memories of combat every time he steps out into the garden, it's clear that Duff, who also wrote the screenplay, is using the family as a metaphor for America and the boy's complicated feelings for his father - a mix of love, loyalty and rage over this betrayal - as a mirror of the way he feels about his country.
 
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