Act of Vengeance 1986   TV, 97 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: John Mackenzie
Cast: Charles Bronson, Ellen Burstyn, Wilford Brimley, Hoyt Axton, Ellen Barkin, Keanu Reeves, Robert Schenkkan, Maury Chaykin, Caroline Kava, Alan North
This is the story of Jock Yablonski (Charles Bronson), a United Mine Workers official who challenged Tony Boyle (Wilford Brimley) and then was murdered along with his family. Originally made for cable. 1 User Review
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 The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across 8th Dimsn 1984  PG, 103 min.
Genre: Adventure / Sci-Fi / Comedy
aka: Buckaroo Banzai
The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai
Director: W.D. Richter
Cast: Peter Weller, John Lithgow, Ellen Barkin, Jeff Goldblum, Christopher Lloyd, Carl Lumbly, Lewis Smith, Rosalind Cash, Robert Ito, Pepe Serna
When he leaves his own eighth dimension to battle aliens on Planet 10, brilliant inter-galactic warrior Buckaroo Banzai (Peter Weller) must use his vast knowledge of the universe to defeat the bad guys.
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 Bad Company 1995  R, 108 min.
Genre: Drama / Mystery / Thriller
Director: Damian Harris
Cast: Ellen Barkin, Laurence Fishburne, Frank Langella, Michael Beach, David Ogden Stiers, Spalding Gray, Gia Carides, James Hong, Michael Murphy, Daniel Hugh Kelly, Tegan West, Fred Henderson, Michelle Beaudoin, L. Harvey Gold, Alan C. Peterson
Former CIA agent Nelson Crowe (Laurence Fishburne) joins the industrial espionage firm, Grimes Organization, and works with former Covert Operations operative Margaret Wells (Ellen Barkin). She convinces Crowe that they could overthrow the boss Vic Grimes (Frank Langella) and take over the operation. Blackmail and espionage ensue in their deadly game in which no one can be trusted.
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 The Big Easy 1987  R, 101 min.
Genre: Drama / Thriller
Director: Jim McBride
Cast: Dennis Quaid, Ellen Barkin, Ned Beatty, Ebbe Roe Smith, John Goodman, Lisa Jane Persky, Marc Lawrence, Grace Zabriskie, Gailard Sartain, Charles Ludlam
A police homicide detective and an assistant D.A. (Dennis Quaid and Ellen Barkin) become involved with each other while he is investigating a drug war and she is probing allegations of corruption on the New Orleans police force. An excellent thriller.
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Clinton and Nadine 1988   TV, 95 min.
Genre: Action
aka: Blood Money: The Story of Clinton and Nadine
Director: Jerry Schatzberg
Cast: Andy Garcia, Ellen Barkin, Morgan Freeman, Michael Lombard, John C. McGinley, Brad Sullivan, Alan North, Bill Raymond, Anthony Correa, Mario Ernesto Sanchez, Julio Oscar Mechoso, Helen Hanft
While looking for his brother's murderer, small-time smuggler Clinton (Andy Garcia) seeks help from call-girl Nadine (Ellen Barkin}. The couple gets more than they bargained for when they become involved in gun-smuggling to support the Contras in Nicaragua.
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Crime and Punishment in Suburbia 2000 R, 98 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Rob Schmidt
Cast: Monica Keena, Ellen Barkin, Michael Ironside, Vincent Kartheiser, James DeBello, Jeffrey Wright, Blake Shields, Conchata Ferrell, Marshall R. Teague, Lucinda Jenney
Based very loosely on Fyodor Dostoyevsky's novel, this story is about a popular high-school cheerleader, Roseanne (Monica Keena), who decides she has suffered enough abuse from her stepfather and sets out to avenge herself. Roseanne's method of revenge: kill him.
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Daniel 1983 R, 130 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Sidney Lumet
Cast: Timothy Hutton, Edward Asner, Mandy Patinkin, Lindsay Crouse, Amanda Plummer, Ellen Barkin, Tovah Feldshuh, Joseph Leon, John Rubinstein, David Margulies
Daniel (Timothy Hutton) is the son of Julius and Ethel Rosenberg, who were executed as Soviet spies in 1953. This is Daniel's story of both his student-protest lifestyle in the 1960s and his belief in his parents' innocence.
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Desert Bloom 1986 PG, 104 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Eugene Corr
Cast: Jon Voight, Annabeth Gish, JoBeth Williams, Ellen Barkin, Jay Underwood, Allen Garfield, Desiree Joseph, Dusty Balcerzak, Tressi Loria, Laura Rasmussen
Set in Las Vegas during the atomic bomb testing era, this story is told through flashbacks of Rose Chismore's (Annabeth Gish) formative years. The influences of those around her–mother Lily (JoBeth Williams), alcoholic father Jack (Jon Voight), flamboyant Aunt Starr (Ellen Barkin), and first-love Robin (Jay Underwood)–make their impact on the young girl's life.
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Diner 1982 R, 110 min.
Genre: Comedy
Director: Barry Levinson
Cast: Steve Guttenberg, Daniel Stern, Mickey Rourke, Kevin Bacon, Tim Daly, Ellen Barkin, Paul Reiser, Kathryn Dowling, Michael Tucker, Mark Margolis
This episodic film is about young men in Baltimore during the late 1950s who find women as a puzzling phenomenon and meet at a diner to male bond over greasy cheeseburgers, fries, and chocolate malts. Contains Elvis songs.
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 Down by Law 1986 R, 106 min.
Genre: Comedy / Drama
Director: Jim Jarmusch
Cast: Tom Waits, John Lurie, Roberto Benigni, Nicoletta Braschi, Ellen Barkin, Billie Neal, Rockets Redglare, Vernel Bagneris, Timothea, L.C. Drane, Joy N. Houck Jr., Carrie Lindsoe, Richard Boes, Dave Petitjean
Zack (Tom Waits) and Jack (John Lurie) are sent to a Louisiana prison on trumped-up charges. Once there, they join forces with their cellmate, Roberto (Roberto Benigni), in an escape attempt that leaves them adrift on the bayou.
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 Drop Dead Gorgeous 1999 PG-13, 97 min.
Genre: Comedy
Director: Michael Patrick Jann
Cast: Kirsten Dunst, Ellen Barkin, Allison Janney, Denise Richards, Kirstie Alley, Sam McMurray, Mindy Sterling, Will Sasso, Brittany Murphy, Matt Malloy, Amy Adams, Laurie A. Sinclair, Shannon Nelson, Alexandra Holden, Sarah Stewart
When Amber Atkins (Kirsten Dunst) enters the Sarah Rose Cosmetics Miss Teen Princess beauty contest in Mt. Rose, Minnesota, her alcoholic mother, Annette (Ellen Barkin), stops at nothing to ensure that her daughter wins the title. But, first, she must get past the former winner, Gladys Leeman (Kirstie Alley), whose own daughter, Becky (Denise Richards), also seeks the beauty prize.
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 Eddie and the Cruisers 1983 PG, 92 min.
Genre: Drama / Mystery / Musical
Director: Martin Davidson
Cast: Tom Berenger, Michael Pare, Joe Pantoliano, Matthew Laurance, Helen Schneider, Ellen Barkin, David Wilson, Michael "Tunes' Antunes, Kenny Vance, John Stockwell, Joe Cates, Barry Sand, Vebe Borge, Howard Johnson
Did Rock'n Roller Eddie Wilson (Michael Pare) really die in a car accident, or is he simply hiding out? Reporter Maggie Foley (Ellen Barkin) becomes more and more embroiled in the mystery as she interviews Wilson's former band members–especially Frank Ridgeway (Tom Berenger).
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Enormous Changes at the Last Minute 1983 N/R, 115 min.
Genre: Drama
aka: Trumps
Director: Mirra Bank, Ellen Hovde, Muffie Meyer
Cast: Maria Tucci, Sudie Bond, David Strathairn, Ellen Barkin, Ron McLarty, Jeffrey DeMunn, Zvee Scooler, Kevin Bacon
Based on Grace Paley's collection of stories, this trilogy reveals hidden secrets involved in three New York women's lives, depicting meanings behind their successes and failures.
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The Fan 1996 R, 120 min.
Genre: Drama / Thriller
Director: Tony Scott
Cast: Robert De Niro, Wesley Snipes, Ellen Barkin, John Leguizamo, Benicio Del Toro, Patti D'Arbanville, Brandon Hammond, Charles Hallahan, Dan Butler, Chris Mulkey, Andrew J. Ferchland, Kurt Fuller, Michael Jace, Frank Medrano, Don S. Davis
A crazed sports fan Gil Renard (Robert De Niro), who happens to sell sporting knives, admires his baseball idol Bobby Rayburn (Wesley Snipes). Bobby is a famous player who has signed a $40 million deal with the San Francisco Giants. But, Bobby goes into a slump, and that gives Gil the idea to murder one of Bobby's chief rivals. Matters get even worse when Gil believes that Bobby is not grateful for his devotion, and he stalks Bobby and his family.
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 Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas 1998 R, 128 min.
Genre: Comedy / Adventure / Drama
Director: Terry Gilliam
Cast: Johnny Depp, Benicio Del Toro, Ellen Barkin, Gary Busey, Tobey Maguire, Cameron Diaz, Christina Ricci, Katherine Helmond, Harry Dean Stanton, Mark Harmon, Michael Jeter, Penn Jillette, Craig Bierko, Lyle Lovett, Flea
This film is an adaptation of Hunter S. Thompson's book about a 1971 drug-and-alcohol crazed trip to Las Vegas. Raoul Duke (Johnny Depp) and his Samoan attorney Dr. Gonzo (Benicio Del Toro) set off across the desert to cover a race and then a convention of district attorneys. Duke interviews his subjects and writes stories from his addict mind-set.
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Into the West 1992 PG, 102 min.
Genre: Family
Director: Mike Newell
Cast: Gabriel Byrne, Ellen Barkin, Ciaran Fitzgerald, Ruaidhri Conroy, David Kelly, Johnny Murphy, Colm Meaney, Brendan Gleeson, John Kavanagh, Dave Duffy
This modern-day fairy tale is set in Ireland and begins with Grandfather (David Kelly) finding a beautiful–and perhaps magical–white horse on the beach. He gives it to his two grandsons, Tito (Ruaidhri Conroy) and Ossie (Ciaran Fitzgerald), who live in the slums of Dublin with their ex-"traveler" father, Papa Reilly (Gabriel Byrne). After the horse is taken by the police in order to sell it to a rich man, the boys steal it back and head west on the horse for a magical adventure with the police in pursuit. Some gritty moments, but the ending is happy.
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Johnny Handsome 1989 R, 93 min.
Genre: Action / Drama
Director: Walter Hill
Cast: Mickey Rourke, Ellen Barkin, Morgan Freeman, Elizabeth McGovern, Forest Whitaker, Lance Henriksen, Scott Wilson, Jeffrey Meek, Ed Zang, J.W. Smith, David Schramm, Yvonne Bryceland, Peter Jason, John P. Fertitta, Allan Graf
Gangster John Sedley (Mickey Rourke) is badly disfigured when his partners–Sunny and Rafe (Ellen Barkin and Lance Henriksen)–double-cross him during a heist. John is sent to prison where, as part of a rehabilitation program, he is given plastic surgery. Now John is unrecognizable to anyone who once knew him, and, after being freed, "Johnny Handsome" seeks revenge on his old gang members.
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Mac 1992 R, 117 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: John Turturro
Cast: John Turturro, Michael Badalucco, Carl Capotorto, Katherine Borowitz, John Amos, Olek Krupa, Ellen Barkin, Steven Randazzo, Matthew Sussman, Nicholas Turturro, Joe Paparone, Dennis Farina
Following their father's death, his three sons–Mac (John Turturro), Vico (Michael Badalucco), and Bruno (Carl Capotorto)–decide to follow on in the family business and form Vitelli Construction Company. But, working together proves difficult, and a falling-out develops in their relationships with each other.
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Mad Dog Time 1996  R, 93 min.
Genre: Drama
aka: Trigger Happy
Director: Larry Bishop
Cast: Richard Dreyfuss, Gabriel Byrne, Ellen Barkin, Jeff Goldblum, Diane Lane, Gregory Hines, Burt Reynolds, Michael J. Pollard, Henry Silva, Angie Everhart
Mad Dog Land is an alternative universe where Vic (Richard Dreyfuss) is a gangster boss who has been released from a mental hospital and wants to regain control of his territory. By the end of the film no one cares WHO controls the crime organization in this pointless plot.
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Man Trouble 1992  PG-13, 100 min.
Genre: Comedy / Romance
Director: Bob Rafelson
Cast: Jack Nicholson, Ellen Barkin, Harry Dean Stanton, Beverly D'Angelo, Michael McKean, Saul Rubinek, Veronica Cartwright, David Clennon, John Kapelos, Viveka Davis
An opera singer (Ellen Barkin) hires a guard-dog trainer (Jack Nicholson) to protect her from a psychotic's advances. Romance develops between the unlikely couple. Not exactly vintage Nicholson.
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Ocean's Thirteen 2007 PG-13, 113 min.
Genre: Comedy / Drama / Thriller
Director: Steven Soderbergh
Cast: George Clooney, Brad Pitt, Matt Damon, Ellen Barkin, Al Pacino, Andy Garcia, Don Cheadle, Bernie Mac, Casey Affleck, Scott Caan, Elliott Gould, Carl Reiner, Shaobo Qin, Michael Mantell, Eddie Jemison
Danny Ocean (George Clooney) and the gang are back in Las Vegas where Danny's mentor Reuben Tishkoff (Elliott Gould) has been double-crossed by Willie Banks (Al Pacino) while they partnered in building a new Las Vegas casino. Danny and Rusty (Brad Pitt)–along with the rest of the gang–plot to get revenge by ruining the grand opening of the casino. The plan calls for infiltrating the casino's security system, rigging the casino games so that everyone will win, and emulating an earthquake to get all of those winners away from the gambling tables before they lose their winnings.
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Palindromes 2005 N/R, 100 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Todd Solondz
Cast: Ellen Barkin, Richard Masur, Matthew Faber, Angela Pietropinto, Bill Buell, Valerie Shusterov, Hannah Freiman, Will Denton, Rachel Corr, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Debra Monk, Sharon Wilkins
Eight actresses take on the role of troubled 12-year-old Aviva in a mirage of scenarios that support the theory that people's true natures don't change even when they alter their outward appearances.
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Sea of Love 1989 R, 110 min.
Genre: Mystery
Director: Harold Becker
Cast: Al Pacino, Ellen Barkin, John Goodman, William Hickey, Michael Rooker, Richard Jenkins, Paul Calderon, Gene Canfield, Larry Joshua, John Spencer
The newspaper's lonely-hearts column is somehow connected to a number of serial killings in New York. Two cops, Detectives Keller and Sherman (Al Pacino and John Goodman) are given the case, and Keller, in particular, goes after the solution with a vengeance.
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 She Hate Me 2004 R, 140 min.
Genre: Comedy
Director: Spike Lee
Cast: Anthony Mackie, Kerry Washington, Ellen Barkin, Monica Bellucci, Jim Brown, Ossie Davis, Jamel Debbouze, Brian Dennehy, Woody Harrelson, Reynaldo Rosales, John Turturro, Q-Tip
Jack Armstrong (Anthony Mackie) was fired after he exposed corrupt business practices, and now he is desperate for cash–until a big deal comes along: Jack will impregnate lesbians and get paid big money for it.
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Siesta 1987 R, 97 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Mary Lambert
Cast: Ellen Barkin, Gabriel Byrne, Julian Sands, Jodie Foster, Martin Sheen, Isabella Rossellini, Grace Jones, Alexei Sayle, Frank Brana, Gary Cady
This movie juggles time so that it moves back and forth to tell about a stuntwoman who falls in love with her married trainer. Because of her attraction to him, she follows him to Spain where she joins a group of acquaintances for a while, but she becomes lost and at the mercy of anyone or anything.
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Someone Like You 2001 PG-13, 95 min.
Genre: Comedy
Director: Tony Goldwyn
Cast: Ashley Judd, Greg Kinnear, Hugh Jackman, Marisa Tomei, Ellen Barkin, Laura Regan, Catherine Dent, Peter Friedman, Donna Hanover, Matthew Coyle
Jane (Ashley Judd) books acts for a talk show and has a good relationship with the show's executive producer, Ray (Greg Kinnear). When Ray dumps her, Jane is determined to figure out what makes men tick, and she tests her theories on co-worker and womanizer Eddie (Hugh Jackman). You can guess what happens. Nothing special here, but some good moments.
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Switch 1991 R, 103 min.
Genre: Comedy
Director: Blake Edwards
Cast: Ellen Barkin, Jimmy Smits, JoBeth Williams, Lorraine Bracco, Perry King, Tony Roberts, Lysette Anthony, Bruce Payne, Victoria Mahoney, Basil Hoffman
Following his murder, a male chauvinist, Steve Brooks (Perry King), is given the chance for redemption by returning to Earth as a woman.
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Tender Mercies 1983 PG, 89 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Bruce Beresford
Cast: Robert Duvall, Tess Harper, Betty Buckley, Wilford Brimley, Ellen Barkin, Lenny von Dohlen, Paul Gleason, Norman Bennett, Allan Hubbard, Michael Crabtree, Glen Fleming, Andrew Scott Hollon, Rick Murray, Stephen Funchess, James Aaron
Robert Duvall won the Oscar for his portrayal of Mac Sledge, a has-been country singer, who hits bottom in a drunken stupor in a Texas motel. To earn payment for the room, he agrees to work for the motel manager Rosa Lee (Tess Harper). Mac and Rosa fall in love and marry, and Mac becomes a father to Rosa's young son, Sonny (Allan Hubbard). When the opportunity appears for Mac to make a comeback as a singer, he must decide between family and career. Academy Award nominations were received for Best Picture and Director.
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This Boy's Life 1993 R, 115 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Michael Caton-Jones
Cast: Robert De Niro, Ellen Barkin, Leonardo DiCaprio, Jonah Blechman, Eliza Dushku, Chris Cooper, Gerrit Graham, Carla Gugino, Tobey Maguire, Zachary Ansley
This is the story of a dysfunctional family: son Toby (Leonardo DiCaprio), father (Robert De Niro), and mother (Ellen Barkin). Finding herself unable to contend with her husband, Toby's mother puts him in the hands of his abusive stepfather.
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Trust the Man 2006 R, 103 min.
Genre: Comedy / Drama / Romance
Director: Bart Freundlich
Cast: David Duchovny, Julianne Moore, Billy Crudup, Maggie Gyllenhaal, Eva Mendes, Garry Shandling, Sascha & Brianna Gillen, Liam Broggy, Scott Sowers, Ellen Barkin, Brian Tarantina, Sarah Knowlton, Justin Bartha, Dagmara Dominczyk
Two spoiled couples–popular stage actress Rebecca (Julianne Moore) and her sex-addicted husband Tom (David Duchovny) and Rebecca's slacker brother Tobey (Billy Crudup) and children's writer Elaine (Maggie Gyllenhaal)–arrive at turning points in their relationships as romantic problems rise to the fore.
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The White River Kid 1999 R, 95 min.
Genre: Comedy
aka: White River
Director: Arne Glimcher
Cast: Bob Hoskins, Antonio Banderas, Wes Bentley, Ellen Barkin, Beau Bridges, Swoosie Kurtz, Chad Lindberg, Roger Clinton, Kim Dickens, Randy Travis
A phony monk (Bob Hoskins) and his sidekick (Antonio Banderas) travel through Arkansas selling socks from their van, meeting all sorts of unusual people on the way. But trouble is brewing just around the bend. Nearly a bomb.
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Wild Bill 1995 R, 98 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Walter Hill
Cast: Jeff Bridges, Ellen Barkin, John Hurt, Diane Lane, David Arquette, Keith Carradine, Bruce Dern, Marjoe Gortner, James Gammon, James Remar
Although this film begins with Wild Bill Hickok's (Jeff Bridges) early days as a gunslinger, most of the movie involves Wild Bill's later life as an opium-smoking older man living in Hollywood with his wife, Calamity Jane (Ellen Barkin). Some would call this revisionist history.
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| 1. Act of Vengeance (1986)
2. The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across 8th Dimsn (1984)
aka: Buckaroo Banzai
aka: The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai
3. Bad Company (1995)
4. The Big Easy (1987)
5. Clinton and Nadine (1988)
aka: Blood Money: The Story of Clinton and Nadine
6. Crime and Punishment in Suburbia (2000)
7. Daniel (1983)
8. Desert Bloom (1986)
9. Diner (1982)
10. Down by Law (1986)
11. Drop Dead Gorgeous (1999)
12. Eddie and the Cruisers (1983)
13. Enormous Changes at the Last Minute (1983)
aka: Trumps
14. The Fan (1996)
15. Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas (1998)
16. Harry and Son (1984)
17. Into the West (1992)
18. Johnny Handsome (1989)
19. Mac (1992)
20. Mad Dog Time (1996)
aka: Trigger Happy
21. Man Trouble (1992)
22. Ocean's Thirteen (2007)
23. Palindromes (2005)
24. Sea of Love (1989)
25. She Hate Me (2004)
26. Siesta (1987)
27. Someone Like You (2001)
28. Switch (1991)
29. Tender Mercies (1983)
30. This Boy's Life (1993)
31. Trust the Man (2006)
32. The White River Kid (1999)
aka: White River
33. Wild Bill (1995)
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