Film Review: ‘running For Grace’

Joe Leydon, Variety
Fri, 08/17/2018 - 11:55pm

It’s difficult to offer a detailed synopsis of “Running for Grace” without making it sound like something adapted from a young adult novel of recent vintage. Not that there’s anything wrong with that, you understand, but this pleasantly well-crafted period drama actually plays more like a throwback to youth-skewing entertainment of an earlier era.

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