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Nicole Kidman is looking hot and bothered in her new movie The Paperboy, director Lee Daniels' steamy and dramatic follow-up to the Oscar-nominated Precious, and we have a first look at a shot from the film.

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The potboiler concerns a reporter (Matthew McConaughey) and his brother (Zac Efron) who returns to their Florida hometown to investigate a case involving a death row inmate (John Cusack) who may be wrongly convicted of murdering a sheriff. Kidman plays a woman who writes letters to death row inmates, and who first brings the case to the attention of the press.

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The Paperboy will make its debut at the Cannes film festival this May.