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Review: In 'Confessions of a Good Samaritan,' a cheeky documentarian tests her own altruism
When documentary filmmaker Penny Lane chose to donate a kidney to a stranger — the dramatic crux of her new “Confessions of a Good Samaritan” — one can’t help but wonder whether the movie idea came first or the altruistic impulse. Because really, who does …