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BFI / Sight and SoundUK

The Debut: Julianne Moore gives a showstopping performance as a woman transformed by community theatre

September 29

Jesse Eisenberg brings a Sirkian touch to this wildly entertaining film about a timid New Jersey woman who throws herself headfirst into a new thespian life after she’s cast in her local musical.

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