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It was a good movie, well-written and intelligent, as was Maguire's next effort, John Irving's The Cider House Rules. Here he played Homer Wells, a young man who's been raised in an orphanage and taught the rudiments of medicine by Dr Larch (Michael Caine, who won an Oscar for his pains). Larch is a junkie and secret abortionist, but a decent fellow who wants Homer to continue his good work. Homer, on the other hand, wants to see the world and, when Paul Rudd and Charlize Theron show up for an abortion, he leaves with them to work on Rudd's apple farm. Then, when Rudd goes off to war, he's left with the really rather attractive Theron. But is what he was looking for actually back at the orphanage, where it was all along?
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By the mid 1990s, Maguire was steadily working but becoming caught up in the hard-partying lifestyle of some of his fellow teen actors. In 1995, Maguire requested director Allan Moyle to release him from his part in the movie Empire Records. Moyle agreed, and all of Tobey's scenes were deleted from the final film.[6] Maguire then sought help for an underaged drinking problem from Alcoholics Anonymous; he has been sober ever since.[7]
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"There's Tobey Maguire, for example, who was in the No. 2 movie of the year," Simanton said. "He's in our top 100, but he's not in the top 25. Neither are Mel Gibson and Michael Moore. The data means a lot of things, particularly good will and star appeal and not necessarily success at the box office. But fascination certainly."
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Maguire, whose much-anticipated "Pleasantville" opens on Oct. 23, says the best-selling singer and poet might have a future on the big screen: "She really came into her own by the last couple of scenes. She was finding her place and feeling more comfortable. By the end, you could call the movie 'Ten Guys and Jewel.'"
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