The movie version of Salman Rushdie's Midnight's Children, which opens Friday at the Gene Siskel Film Center, suffers from an inferiority complex that's common to film adaptations of highly regarded novels. The movie feels overstuffed with incident, as though the filmmakers (including director Deepa Mehta and Rushdie himself, who's credited with the screenplay) were trying to include as many details from the book as they could.…
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