Movie Review: 'Lost in Translation'

By Bob Mondello

Published September 10, 2003 at 11:00 PM CDT

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The daughter of acclaimed director Francis Ford Coppola, Sofia Coppola made her directorial debut with the well received Virgin Suicides. Her new movie, Lost in Translation, which features Bill Murray as a TV star struggling to find himself, is already generating Oscar talk. NPR's Bob Mondello has a review.

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Bob Mondello, who jokes that he was a jinx at the beginning of his critical career — hired to write for every small paper that ever folded in Washington, just as it was about to collapse — saw that jinx broken in 1984 when he came to NPR.

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