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Apr. 21, 2007

Lawyer-Turned-Movie-Producer Enjoys New Environment

Former New York attorney Charles Weinstock has parlayed his Hollywood connections into "Fracture," a legal thriller starring Anthony Hopkins and Ryan Gosling that opens in theaters nationwide on Friday. Weinstock, a Harvard Law graduate, was chiefly concerned with preserving the film's thematic integrity.

By Drew Combs
Daily Journal Staff Writer

      LOS ANGELES - In the New Line Cinema thriller "Fracture," set to open today in U.S. theaters, Ryan Gosling plays a Los Angeles County deputy district attorney whose well-planned exit to a tony law firm is derailed when his last case, a seemingly straightforward attempted-murder prosecution, turns into something far more complicated.
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