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In The Fabulous Baker Boys, two brothers have spent 15 years taking their dual piano act to the half-filled hotel lounges and noisy tiki bars of Seattle, Washington, scraping together enough money to get by, though the routine has started to get whiskers on it. Frank Baker (Beau Bridges) is the more pragmatic of the two. He takes care of the bookings and presentation, which involves kissing up to odious hotel managers to stay on the calendar, hauling the poster board in the back of his station wagon, and spraying the bald spot at the top of his head. (“It’s not paint. It’s a magical sheath that simulates a dazzling head of hair.”) Eighty-eight keys to his left is his little brother Jack (Jeff Bridges), the musical genius of the pair, who only needs to show up in his rumpled tux and play, which he does with a reliability and spirit that could both be described as “metronomic.” Frank is a conventional family man who drives in from the suburbs, where he’s got children to feed and a mortgage to pay. Jack lives in the city and salves his broken dreams with liquor, c

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