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Slow start at box office
not surprising for Pearl film
Peter Mountain/Paramount Vantage
Daniel Pearl (Dan Futterman) and Mariane (Angelina Jolie) in Michael Winterbottom's "A Mighty Heart", which preformed disappointingly at the box office last weekend.
It was perhaps of little surprise that "A Mighty Heart" had a modest opening. The film about the search for slain Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl has few of the markers of a Hollywood blockbuster.

It is a distinctly low-budget affair, shot in a documentary style on location in India and released by Paramount Vantage, the art-house label of the major Hollywood studio.

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