Andrew Tiernan
Also Known As: Andy Tiernan, Andrew James Tiernan
Biography: Andrew James Tiernan is an English film and television actor.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Ladywood, Birmingham, England, UK
Birthday: November 30, 1965
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Gender: Male
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300
Overview: Based on Frank Miller's graphic novel, "300" is very loosely based the 480 B.C. Battle of Thermopylae, where the King of Sparta led his army against the advancing Persians; the battle is said to have inspired all of Greece to band together against the Persians, and helped usher in the world's first democracy.
Genres: Action Adventure War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2007-03-07
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Interview with the Vampire
Overview: A vampire relates his epic life story of love, betrayal, loneliness, and dark hunger to an over-curious reporter.
Genres: Horror Drama Fantasy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1994-11-11
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The Bunker
Overview: In 1944, in the Belgian - German border, seven German soldiers survive an American attack in the front and lock themselves in a bunker to protect the position. Under siege by the enemy and with little ammunition, they decide to explore underground tunnels to seek supplies and find an escape route. While in the tunnel, weird things happen with the group.
Genres: Horror Mystery Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2001-09-14
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The Guilty
Overview: Michael Kitchen stars in this two-part television thriller as Steven Vey, a successful London barrister whose seemingly perfect life takes a devastating turn when a fleeting encounter with his secretary spawns a rape charge. Meanwhile, in a parallel tale, ex-convict Eddy Doyle discovers the man who raised him is not his real father. Doyle searches for his biological dad -- but winds up knee-deep in trouble. English
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Original Language: en
Release Date: 1992-08-06
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Le Fear II: Le Sequel
Overview: After the disaster of Le Fear, director Carlos Revalos decides to make a sequel with a bigger budget. What could go wrong? Simply everything.
Genres: Science Fiction Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2016-11-11
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Face
Overview: Ray is an aging ex-socialist who has become a bankrobber after seeing the demise of socialism in 1980s Britain. Teaming up with a gang of other has-beenish crims, he commits one bank job too many. The gang dissolves in a murderous flurry of recriminations.
Genres: Crime Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1997-09-26
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Hornblower: The Examination for Lieutenant
Overview: Acting Lieutenant Hornblower attempts to study for his promotion examination, but becomes distracted by the serious supply problems that face his crew.
Genres: War Adventure TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1998-11-18
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Krays: Code of Silence
Overview: The 60s, London: The Krays are on the rise, using their inimitable violent ways to gain power over the city. One man, the fearless Detective Nipper Read, is sent in to tackle the unenviable task of bringing the city back under the rule of law and taking on the country's most feared mobsters in the process. As he faces bent coppers, political backstabbing, and terrified witnesses, Nipper becomes increasingly obsessed, putting everything and everyone he knows at risk.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2021-12-27
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Edward II
Overview: England, 14th century. King Edward II falls in love with Piers Gaveston, a young man of humble origins, whom he honors with favors and titles of nobility. The cold and jealous Queen Isabella conspires with the evil Mortimer to get rid of Gaveston, overthrow her husband and take power…
Genres: History Romance Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1991-10-18
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The Quatermass Experiment
Overview: Bernard Quatermass heads the futuristic Experimental Rocket Group whose greatest voyage is coming to an end, but after a dramatic crash landing Victor Carroon begins to metamorphose into a strange, deadly alien, setting off a race against time to save humanity.
Genres: Science Fiction Drama Thriller TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2005-04-02
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Mr. Nice
Overview: Biopic about 1970s Welsh marijuana trafficker Howard Marks, whose inventive smuggling schemes made him a huge success in the drug trade, as well as leading to dealings with both the IRA and British Intelligence. Based on Marks' biography with the same title.
Genres: Comedy Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2010-10-07
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Checkout Girl
Overview: Supermarket checkout girl Dianne Clarke embarks upon a campaign as a modern day Robin Hood, with no inkling of the chaos she is about to create. Within just a few days the Friendly Saver where she works will be brought to its knees. Double-check your receipt!
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2000-01-01
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Hawkins
Overview: Hawkins was an original film for BBC Television about a man who lives a double life, as a Nietzschean Philosophy Lecturer and as a Detective who is fascinated by lowlife and criminal mentalities.
Genres: TV Movie Drama Crime Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2001-07-28
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The Trial
Overview: Joseph K. awakes one morning, to find two strange men in his room, telling him he has been arrested. Joseph is not told what he is charged with, and despite being "arrested," is allowed to remain free and go to work. But despite the strange nature of his arrest, Joseph soon learns that his trial, however odd, is very real, and tries desperately to spare himself from the court's judgement.
Genres: Thriller Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1993-06-18
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2003
Overview: Before embarking on his first tour of duty, a young soldier and his father must face up to the painful realities that have long gone unspoken between them.
Genres: Drama War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2021-10-06
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300: Rise of an Empire
Overview: Greek general Themistocles attempts to unite all of Greece by leading the charge that will change the course of the war. Themistocles faces the massive invading Persian forces led by mortal-turned-god, Xerxes and Artemesia, the vengeful commander of the Persian navy.
Genres: Action Drama War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2014-03-05
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The Man Who Sold The World
Overview: The story of Max: a man who becomes embroiled in time and space and the many dimensions of man's mind and his place within his own universe.
Genres: Drama Science Fiction Horror Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2006-01-01
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Burning Men
Overview: Young, struggling musicians Ray and Don are evicted from their South London squat. They take to the road in their old Volvo Amazon, planning to sell their prized vinyl record collection and fly to Memphis USA. However, when they fail to get the money needed, they steal a rare Black Metal record which seems to unleash dark forces that threaten their mission.
Genres: Fantasy Drama Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2019-03-01
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The Bunker
Overview: A fictional war-torn valor story of heroism, set in the uncharted lands of "The Ho Bo Woods" in southern Vietnam in 1965. Following a bogus ghost hunt for a missing Special Forces unit led by a man they call Ranger, Private Johannes Schenke (Han) attempts to save an alleged nVa (North Vietnamese Army) operative, along with his comrades who have been captured by Ranger and his renegade Special Forces squad while operating out of an abandoned nVa bunker.
Genres: War Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2014-04-08
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War of the Dead
Overview: Captain Martin Stone is leading a finely-trained, elite platoon of Allied soldiers as they attack an enemy bunker. Underestimating their enemy's strength, they are quickly beaten back into the forest. As they try to regroup, they are suddenly attacked by the same soldiers they had just killed a few minutes earlier. Forced to flee deeper into Russian territory, they discover one of war's most terrifying secrets and realize they have woken up a far more deadlier enemy.
Genres: Horror Action Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2011-10-22
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The Criminal
Overview: Jasper Rawlins, a none-too-successful musician, finds himself chatting with a beautiful woman at his neighborhood bar. She goes home with him, direct and frank in answer to his nervousness. During the night, someone breaks into his flat and cuts her throat. He runs into the arms of the police, who dismiss his story, but release him while they search for the weapon. He investigates the crime, and over the next few days, meets a knowing pornographer, hit men, and other schemers. As dead bodies pile up wherever he goes, the police are soon looking for him with guns drawn. As he discovers secrets about a shadowy corporation, the police close in. Can he find someone to trust?
Genres: Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1999-10-01
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The Protagonists
Overview: An Italian movie crew goes to London to make a documentary about a murder case that took place a few years before.
Genres: Crime Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1999-09-10
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A Waste of Shame: The Mystery of Shakespeare and His Sonnets
Overview: In 1609, William Shakespeare published a collection of 154 sonnets, creating what is arguably the greatest lyric sequence in English literature - and at the center of this masterpiece lies a mystery that has endured for centuries. What are the identities of “the young man” and “the dark lady” to whom all but two of the sonnets allude? This moving performance brings to life the gritty reality of Shakespeare’s England, bits of the Bard’s plays and poems, and the consummate poet and dramatist himself as it exposes these personages unseen but so keenly felt in Shakespeare’s sonnets and in his life. Rupert Graves, Tom Sturridge, Indira Varma, Anna Chancellor, and Zoë Wanamaker star. Contains mature themes and explicit language. Some content may be objectionable. Produced by the Open University.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2005-11-22
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My Policeman
Overview: In the late 1990s, the arrival of elderly invalid Patrick into Marion and Tom’s home triggers the exploration of seismic events from 40 years previous: the passionate relationship between Tom and Patrick at a time when homosexuality was illegal.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2022-10-20
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As You Like It
Overview: Hiding out in an industrial wasteland from the murderous wrath of a regional ruler, a woman, disguised as a boy, gives wooing lessons to the edgy lad who proclaims he loves her.
Genres: Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1992-10-09
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The Red Siren
Overview: Nearly 13, Alice rebels, telling the Paris police that her mother is a murderer. Alice has no evidence; her mother, Eva, rich and powerful, avoids charges. Alice promptly runs away, determined to find her dad whom she claims lives in Portugal. The police believe he is dead and that Alice is in denial. Nonetheless, they dispatch Anita, an Italian police officer on loan to the French, to find Alice and bring her back. Meanwhile, Eva has launched her own paramilitary force to hunt for Alice, and Alice has found a protector in Hugo, an ex-soldier turned hit man and gang member. He promises to get her to her father. All roads lead to a small town on the Portuguese coast.
Genres: Drama Action Thriller
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2002-08-21
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Common
Overview: Multi-award-winning writer Jimmy McGovern's brand new film based on the UK's controversial joint enterprise law. Jimmy McGovern's gritty drama stars Nico Mirallegro as guileless 17 year old Johnjo O'Shea, who goes from innocent bystander to accessory to premeditated murder after giving a few friends a lift.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2014-07-06
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Automata
Overview: Jacq Vaucan, an insurance agent of ROC robotics corporation, routinely investigates the case of manipulating a robot. What he discovers will have profound consequences for the future of humanity.
Genres: Thriller Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2014-10-09
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Dragonfly
Overview: Brutal cop, DS Mike Blake is no stranger to violence. He finds himself caught in a web of conspiracy, corruption, deceit and murder when investigating the cold case of a Politician’s missing daughter. If he solves the case, the elite in power will make sure he won’t be prosecuted for the death in custody of a young black teenager. Solving the case will lead to his redemption, but ultimately he could pay the price and his life will spiral into a deeper hell. Which leads him to a Rock Star who has sold his soul to the Devil, and Gangsters who want to protect a secret.
Genres: Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2014-12-20
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Whose Baby?
Overview: Hard-hitting drama about a man who discovers that he has fathered a child only when he is approached by a child support agency. A few years after the fling that led to his unknown fatherhood, the man has settled into a new life, but the establishing of his paternity makes him determined to pursue a relationship with his child, leading to a heartbreaking struggle.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2004-10-25
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Sweet Nothing
Overview: A youth abandoned by his family joins a group of homeless people.
Genres: Drama Romance TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1990-09-23
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Safe
Overview: Antonia Bird's first feature length film; "Safe" from 1993, focused on the plight of the homeless in London.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1993-10-13
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Freight
Overview: A Russian gang operating in Leeds with no respect for the laws of England, traffic Eastern Europeans in containers then enslave them, the women to sex, the men to illegal fights. They cross local businessman Gabe Taylor and a war escalates, but when his daughter is taken to be sold into the sex trade, Gabe fights back.
Genres: Action Crime Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2010-10-08
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The Good Soldier Schwejk
Overview: During World War I, a Czech civilian is forced into the Austrian army. Everywhere he goes, everything he is ordered to do becomes a disaster for the Austrians. Is Schwejk astoundingly stupid or deviously defiant?
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2018-11-01
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Rehab
Overview: TV drama - following Adam Bishop, a petty criminal, as he leaves prison for a drugs rehabilitation programme in order to turn his life around.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2003-03-26
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Snow White: A Tale of Terror
Overview: When young Lili's mother dies in childbirth, her father remarries Lady Claudia, a woman ruled by an evil mirror with the power to make her queen of all living things. After escaping an attempt on her life, Lili finds herself lost in a dark forest, where living happily ever after seems unlikely.
Genres: Fantasy Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1997-07-18
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The Pianist
Overview: The true story of pianist Władysław Szpilman's experiences in Warsaw during the Nazi occupation. When the Jews of the city find themselves forced into a ghetto, Szpilman finds work playing in a café; and when his family is deported in 1942, he stays behind, works for a while as a laborer, and eventually goes into hiding in the ruins of the war-torn city.
Genres: Drama War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2002-09-17
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Harvest
Overview: Alex Winckler Drama Short Film
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2009-01-01
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Sleaford Mods: Invisible Britain
Overview: Sleaford Mods - Invisible Britain shows the most exciting and uncompromising British band in years sticking two fingers up to the zeitgeist and articulating the rage and desperation of those without a voice in austerity Britain. The film follows Sleaford Mods on a tour of the UK in the run up to the 2015 General Election, visiting the neglected, broken down and boarded up parts of the country that many would prefer to ignore. Part band doc, part look at the state of the nation, the documentary features individuals and communities attempting to find hope among the ruins, against a blistering soundtrack by Sleaford Mods.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2015-10-03
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Dead Cert
Overview: A gang of tough London gangsters get more than they bargained for when a group of businessmen make an offer to buy their club, the Inferno. They turn out to be nothing less than Vampires wanting their land back and turn viciously on the gangsters when their demands are not met.
Genres: Thriller Horror Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2010-08-26
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Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels
Overview: A card shark and his unwillingly-enlisted friends need to make a lot of cash quick after losing a sketchy poker match. To do this they decide to pull a heist on a small-time gang who happen to be operating out of the flat next door.
Genres: Comedy Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1998-08-28
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Us and Them
Overview: Working class Danny aims to kick start a revolution by turning the tables on the establishment with a deadly game of chance.
Genres: Thriller Drama Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2017-03-10
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Being Human
Overview: One man must learn the meaning of courage across four lifetimes centuries apart.
Genres: Drama Comedy Fantasy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1994-05-06
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Dead Cat
Overview: A young man enters a psychosexual nightmare after his cat dies.
Genres: Horror Fantasy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1989-01-01
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UK18
Overview: A documentary film-maker suspects she is being brainwashed by a secret government organisation.
Genres: Drama Thriller Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2017-04-19
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Map of the Scars
Overview: Set in writer/director Chris Cooke's birthplace of Jersey, this is a twisted travelogue using the scars on a young street drinker's skull as a route map of the tiny tourist island.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1998-01-01
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The Messenger
Overview: The Messenger is the story of Jack’s last melt down: a story of frustration and guilt, love and betrayal, family and blame. Unwillingly becoming embroiled in the unfinished business of Mark, a journalist brutally murdered in the local park and his television presenter wife, Sarah, to whom he’s desperate to say one last goodbye, Jack finds himself getting closer to Sarah, obsessed with passing on Mark’s message. Discovering hidden secrets and lies finally pushes the fragile Jack over the edge but there is hope when his estranged sister, Emma, gets in touch. Jack starts to remember the past they shared together and as the memories come flooding back, he confronts the truth about the death of his father.
Genres: Mystery Drama Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2015-07-16
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Playing God
Overview: Stripped of his medical license after performing an operation while high on amphetamines, famed LA surgeon Dr Eugene Sands abandons his former life only to find himself crossing paths with Raymond Blossom, an infamous counterfeiter. Employed as a "gun-shot doctor" when Raymond's associates cannot risk visiting a hospital, Eugene is lured deep into the criminal world and becomes entangled with his boss's girlfriend.
Genres: Drama Action Thriller Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1997-10-17
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Two Deaths
Overview: A tale of power, passion and obsession set in a politically torn Eastern European country.
Genres: War Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1996-06-14
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Thacker
Overview: A Gothic comedy, featuring a distinguished cast, and starring Leslie Phillips and Margaret Tyzack. Retired colonial army officer George Thacker has high hopes of recapturing his memories of an idyllic English village life after a lifetime of meting out justice in the Far East. But instead of peace and quiet, he is greeted by violence, voodoo and a distressed damsel, brandishing a shotgun. Worst of all, the ghost of his old flame, Edith, still haunts him, threatening both his marriage and his life.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1992-04-20
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The Scarlet Tunic
Overview: Passions erupt between a German hussar (Jean-Marc Barr) serving with King George III's personal cavalry and the only daughter of an English solicitor (Emma Fielding) in this period tearjerker adapted from a short story by Thomas Hardy. Longing to escape their own personal imprisonments -- he, his service to the king, and she, her engagement to a man she doesn't love -- they find solace in each other's arms.
Genres: Drama History Romance War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1998-06-12
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Some Kind of Life
Overview: Young housewife Alison tries to care for both her husband, who became brain-damaged after a motorbike accident, and their young child. Her husband's mother and best friend make things even more difficult.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1995-08-22
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Flying
Overview: Two teenage boys in Coventry pass the time in shoplifting, avoiding their grim family life, and flying a model airplane.
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Original Language: en
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Mr In-Between
Overview: A terrifying love triangle. An original twist on a story of divided loyalties, the perils of love and ultimate death. A haunting tale set in a London at times beautiful and ugly, but always captivating. A story that plays with the shadows and light of an underworld occupied by the fascinating and terrible.
Genres: Action Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2001-09-10
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Brilliant!
Overview: Luke's a London artist and he's thinking about giving up. He's hit that ten year mark. No product, no style, no confidence. But all that may be about to change.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2001-03-01
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