Escape from Pretoria review: True-life prison thriller makes an ideal everyman out of Daniel Radcliffe

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Escape from Pretoria review: True-life prison thriller makes an ideal everyman out of Daniel Radcliffe
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The actor plays Tim Jenkin, a real-life political prisoner during Apartheid-era South Africa, who made a daring escape in 1979

does everything he can to hide away the face of the Boy Who Lived. His forehead, once marked by a lightning bolt scar, is now buried under a swell of thick, sweat-matted curls. A beard covers one half of his face. Oversized, clear plastic glasses take over the other. And then there’s the accent: a South African twang that occasionally slips and slides into other nations. The world of wands and wizards is now only a distant memory.

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