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`The Motorcycle Diaries'.

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| October 01, 2004 | Sumner, Jane | COPYRIGHT 2004 Knight-Ridder/Tribune News Service. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information)Copyright

Byline: Jane Sumner

The best movies make a difference. And "The Motorcycle Diaries," directed by Brazilian Walter Salles and starring Mexico's hottest actor, Gael Garcia Bernal, is one of this year's best.

More than a funny buddy movie, though it's that, too, the road film rescues the restless, footloose young doctor, known to Cuba and the world as El Che, from cold iconography.

Seventeen years before "Easy Rider," two Argentineans roared out of Buenos Aires on a motorcycle. The 1939 Norton 500, nicknamed La Ponderosa (The Mighty One), didn't last long, but their eye-opening journey did.

Before they parted in Caracas eight months ...

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