Posted on 09/05/08
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TIN MANThis adaptation of The Wizard of Oz takes viewers on a dark ride down the Yellow Brick Road. The three-part miniseries is set in the far future and stars Zooey Deschanel as Dorothy, a belligerent tomboy thrust by supernatural means into the Outer Zone - or O.Z. The plucky heroine immediately bonds with three strangers: a timid beast named Raw (Raoul Trujillo), the witless Glitch (Alan Cumming), whose brain has literally been removed, and a swaggering ex-cop (Neal McDonough), nicknamed Tin Man for the badge he still wears. The requisite villainess is Canadian actress Kathleen Robertson as a witch-like sorceress. Smart, funny and never to be confused with the 1939 version starring Judy Garland.
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