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[first lines] Dick Nolan:
[narrating]
The '50s were a grand time, if you were a man. I'm Dick Nolan. I make things up for a living - I'm a reporter. [Margaret frantically packing things] Dick Nolan:
It's the strangest goddamn story that I ever covered. It started the day that Margaret Ulbrich walked out on her suffocating husband, long before it became the fashionable thing to do. Margaret Keane:
Come on, Janie. [they get into the car]
[narrating]
The '50s were a grand time, if you were a man. I'm Dick Nolan. I make things up for a living - I'm a reporter. [Margaret frantically packing things] Dick Nolan:
It's the strangest goddamn story that I ever covered. It started the day that Margaret Ulbrich walked out on her suffocating husband, long before it became the fashionable thing to do. Margaret Keane:
Come on, Janie. [they get into the car]
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The ravages were horrifying
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My psyche was scarred in my art student days
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Nothing in my life has ever made such an impact
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as the sight of the children
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The war wracked innocents
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without parents without homes
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fighting over garbage
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That's where my life
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as a painter began in earnest
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Movie Summary
A drama about the awakening of painter Margaret Keane, her phenomenal success in the 1950s, and the subsequent legal difficulties she had with her husband, who claimed credit for her works in the 1960s.
