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Looking back on hill street blues, the hourlong feature that was included with foxs season one release is ported over too. From the astonishing beauty of the stark winter to long green days of a nordic summer, broken hill blues follows the course of a group of teenagers, about to become adults. Popular videos hill street blues hill street blues topic. In a small mining community in northern sweden, a group of youngsters about to take the leap in the adult age fight with themselves and the world around, while the ground literally trembles. Sofia norlins debut, broken hill blues, happens to be one of those comingofage films that blends documentary with narrative, a slow, meandering narrative that never really comes together in my opinion. Broken hill in us theaters september 11, 2009 starring alexa vega, timothy hutton.
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