By now, if you haven’t seen “Les Miserables,” you’ve probably heard the buzz about Anne Hathaway’s hair-raising performance.
In this big-screen, pull-out-the-stops movie of the Broadway musical based on the London production that came from French play fashioned out of the 1862 novel by Victor Hugo (whew!), Hathaway goes all-out in the role of Fantine, the impoverished single mother thrown into the mean, muddy streets of Paris.
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