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"I didn’t intend to make a film entirely about empathy," says Coppers director Alan Zweig. I met one cop, Gary, who’s in the film, about five or six years ago. I could
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Keep ReadingWith four successful films in 10 years, and a recent marriage and a baby, Alan Zweig is cautiously happy, but admits it wasn’t always so.
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