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Religion & Ethics NewsWeekly | Cathleen Falsani: "True Grace in True Grit' | PBS

Duration: 03:27
Program: Religion & Ethics NewsWeekly #1426
Broadcast Date: Feb. 25, 2011

A journalist who has written extensively on the biblical and spiritual preoccupations of directors Joel and Ethan Coen says in "True Grit" they treat the Presbyterian moral code of fourteen-year-old narrator-heroine Mattie Ross with tenderness and empathy.

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