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PURVIS - For the time being, the Purvis police department has a new leader on an interim basis.
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PURVIS - For the time being, the Purvis police department has a new leader on an interim basis.
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Where I thought Napoleon Dynamite was just a thoroughly unlikable character -- an amusing, unlikable character -- Benjamin Purvis is a lot more sympathetic a protagonist.
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Where I thought Napoleon Dynamite was just a thoroughly unlikable character -- an amusing, unlikable character -- Benjamin Purvis is a lot more sympathetic a protagonist.
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Benjamin Purvis (Michael Angarano) is a home-schooled teen in a small town with a passion for writing science-fiction stories.
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Benjamin Purvis (Michael Angarano) is a home-schooled teen in a small town with a passion for writing science-fiction stories.
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Christian Bale plays a crime fighter again, this time as Melvin Purvis, one of J. Edgar Hoover's favorite agents.
These action films are more subtle but just as exciting 2009
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Hoover appoints agent Melvin Purvis (Bale) to pursue Dillinger, sending him to head the Chicago field office via a ready-made press conference.
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Starring Johnny Depp as infamous Depression-era bank robber John Dillinger and Christian Bale as dogged FBI agent Melvin Purvis, the film gives the audience an impression of what it must have been like to be there more than any other movie that has covered this well-worn territory before.
Mann’s stubborn and fascinating “Public Enemies” » Scene-Stealers 2009
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I wasn't sure who the character of Melvin Purvis was when you mentioned him at the beginning of the article Alex, but upon further investigation I have come to find Public Enemies, due out next summer.
Rumor: Nottingham's Robin Hood Might Be Christian Bale? Updated! « FirstShowing.net 2008
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