Part of the appeal is the unlikely rapport he strikes up with Pike ( Eric Schweig ), the taciturn manager of the town's general store.
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This bittersweet, fictionalized, Italian-language comedy _ about the great Chilean poet Pablo Neruda and the offbeat friendship he strikes up with his postman during a brief political exile on a small Italian island in the'50s _ was the year's gentlest, most ingratiating nostalgia picture.
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Things grow more devitalized with the introduction of a sentimental friendship Ghost Dog strikes up with Isaach de Bankole's ice cream vendor and Camille Winbush's icon of purity, an adolescent girl Ghost Dog meets in a park and to whom he passes the copy of " Rashomon ."