PROFILE
FROM John Carroll Lynch
"Lucky"- Harry Dean Stanton's last film Harry Dean Stanton’s career in film and television spanned six decades. He was in films like “Cool Hand Luke,” “Repo Man,” and “Pretty in Pink.” Stanton died this month at the age of 91. His last film, “Lucky,” opens in theaters tomorrow, and it is, fittingly, about a man confronting his mortality and what it means to be alive.
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