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    Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps; Waiting for Superman

    Michael Douglas' Gordon Gekko leaves prison at the beginning of Oliver Stone's Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps -- he served eight years for crimes committed in the course of the previous film... The real movie news this week is Waiting for Superman. The movie puts five tender young faces on a national scandal that's all too often described with depressing statistics -- the state of public education in the United States...

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    By Joe Morgenstern • Sep 25, 2010 • 3m Listen

    Michael Douglas' Gordon Gekko leaves prison at the beginning of Oliver Stone's Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps -- he served eight years for crimes committed in the course of the previous film...

    The real movie news this week is Waiting for Superman. The movie puts five tender young faces on a national scandal that's all too often described with depressing statistics -- the state of public education in the United States...

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