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In all the media coverage of Owen Wilson's reported suicide attempt, in August 2007--the doleful images of Luke Wilson fighting his way through the paparazzi's popping flashbulbs to visit his brother in the hospital, the cynical speculation about whether it was his breakup with Kate Hudson that pushed him to the brink of self-destruction, the bizarre details that were feasted upon by the celebrity bloggers (at one point, rock star Courtney Love, of all people, accused British comic Steve Coogan of being a bad influence on Wilson)--a curious fact got lost. Namely, that in The Darjeeling Limited, released a little more than a month after Wilson was rushed to the emergency room, the Dallas-born actor put forth his most intriguing character to date: a halting Peter Pan, all grown up yet still very much lost, who wanders through the movie in bandages from a motorcycle accident that he caused himself. Critics politely avoided pushing the real-world parallels too hard, and the movie itself proved painfully...
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