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  • In a SoCal hospital in the 1920s, aninjured stuntman (Lee Pace) and Alexandria, a 6-year-old Indian fruitpicker (the preternaturally adorable Catinca Untaru), bond in theoddest way imaginable: He tells her ripping tales of adventure inexchange for the morphine pills she steals from the dispensary.

    On the Scene at Toronto: Emilio Estevez's 'Bobby' and more | EW.com 2006

  • The voices record what it was like to be a farmer or a fruitpicker or a hustler in Saskatchewan and Winnipeg and Montreal, instead of Arkansas and Chicago and Maine: in Canada it was even tougher than in the States, if we are to trust the subjective accounts of the people Broadfoot has interviewed.

    Short Reviews Editors, The 1974

  • The third person expected to be charged was also a casual fruitpicker working in the Griffith area.

    Daily Telegraph | Top Stories 2010

  • "I have enough to tell a really funny story at Happ's to the early morning citrus crowd about a clumsy bitch killing some dumb fruitpicker and then pissing all over herself.

    Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine 2004

  • "I have enough to tell a really funny story at Happ's to the early morning citrus crowd about a clumsy bitch killing some dumb fruitpicker and then pissing all over herself.

    Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine 2004

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