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The Treatment

Ron Howard

Backdraft, A Beautiful Mind, Ransom, and now Cinderella Man. Films by director Ron Howard are dramas that deal with fear -- fear of being stripped of your tools. It's as if the artist fear being left bereft.

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By Elvis Mitchell • Dec 14, 2005 • 2h 0m Listen

Backdraft, A Beautiful Mind, Ransom, and now Cinderella Man. Films by director Ron Howard are dramas that deal with fear -- fear of being stripped of your tools. It's as if the artist fear being left bereft.

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    Elvis Mitchell

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