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Based on actual events in the lives of John Cappelletti, the football player and his younger brother Joey, a victim of leukemia.

Hard times

Local MP and schoolmaster Thomas Gradgrind raises his children, Louisa and Tom, in the utilitarian fashion, stressing reason and fact and dismissing imagination and emotion. Under his influence, Louisa grows cold while Tom turns to a secret life of drinking and gambling. To be ...

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