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While practising his U.S. Senate race concession speech in a men’s room, congressman David Norris (Matt Damon) encounters a woman named Elise (Emily Blunt) hiding from security in a stall.

A biopic about a child is unusual in its own right. A major movie dedicated to the life story of a current 16-year-old performer is unheard of.

As the son of the legate under whom all 5,000 soldiers of Rome’s Ninth Legion disappeared along with their golden eagle standard, Marcus Flavius Aquila (Channing Tatum) bears the stain of hereditary dishonour.

If Seinfeld was a comedic television show about nothing, then Oscar Wilde’s play The Importance of Being Earnest was Victorian England’s Seinfeld.