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Diablo Cody’s Personal (and Directorial) Paradise

Finding God

She’s a religious person who likes getting wasted and dancing. Seven years after ‘Juno,’ the first-time director returns with the crisis-of-faith dramedy ‘Paradise.’ By Kevin Fallon.

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Diablo Cody, the Oscar-winning screenwriter of Juno, is known for catchy, quotable dialogue. And she kicks off her new film, Paradise, with a doozy: “There is no God!”

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It’s the kicker in a screed delivered from the pulpit by Julianne Hough’s Lamb, a formerly devout and puritanically chaste Christian in the...

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