Wayne Knight
Also Known As: Wayne Eliot Knight, وین نایت
Biography: Wayne Elliot Knight (born August 7, 1955) is an American actor. In television, he played Newman on Seinfeld (1992–1998) and Officer Don Orville on 3rd Rock from the Sun (1996–2001). He also voiced Igor on Toonsylvania (1998–1999), Mr. Blik on Catscratch (2005–2007) and Baron Von Sheldgoose on Legend of the Three Caballeros (2018). In film, he played Dennis Nedry in Jurassic Park (1993), which earned him a Saturn Award for Best Supporting Actor nomination. He also portrayed Pete "Piccolo" Dugan in Dead Again (1991), John Correli in Basic Instinct (1992), Stan Podolak in Space Jam (1996) and Zach Mallozzi in Rat Race (2001) and provided the voices of Tantor in Tarzan (1999), Al McWhiggin in Toy Story 2 (1999) and The Elf Elder in Tom and Jerry: The Lost Dragon (2014).
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: New York City, New York, USA
Birthday: August 07, 1955
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Gender: Male
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Dirty Dancing
Overview: Expecting the usual tedium that accompanies a summer in the Catskills with her family, 17-year-old Frances 'Baby' Houseman is surprised to find herself stepping into the shoes of a professional hoofer—and unexpectedly falling in love.
Genres: Drama Music Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1987-08-21
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Toy Story 2
Overview: Andy heads off to Cowboy Camp, leaving his toys to their own devices. Things shift into high gear when an obsessive toy collector named Al McWhiggen, owner of Al's Toy Barn kidnaps Woody. Andy's toys mount a daring rescue mission, Buzz Lightyear meets his match and Woody has to decide where he and his heart truly belong.
Genres: Animation Comedy Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1999-10-30
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Basic Instinct
Overview: Catherine, a novelist with an insatiable sexual appetite, becomes a prime suspect when her boyfriend is brutally murdered -- a crime she had described in her latest story.
Genres: Thriller Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1992-03-20
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To Die For
Overview: Suzanne Stone wants to be a world-famous news anchor and she is willing to do anything to get what she wants. What she lacks in intelligence, she makes up for in cold determination and diabolical wiles. As she pursues her goal with relentless focus, she is forced to destroy anything and anyone that may stand in her way, regardless of the ultimate cost or means necessary.
Genres: Drama Comedy Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1995-09-22
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JFK
Overview: Follows the investigation into the assassination of President John F. Kennedy led by New Orleans district attorney Jim Garrison.
Genres: Drama Thriller History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1991-12-20
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Space Jam
Overview: With their freedom on the line, the Looney Tunes seek the help of NBA superstar Michael Jordon to win a basketball game against a team of moronic aliens.
Genres: Family Animation Comedy Science Fiction Adventure Fantasy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1996-11-15
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For Richer or Poorer
Overview: Brad Sexton and his wife, Caroline, are wealthy New Yorkers with both marital and financial problems. The latter issue becomes a pressing matter when they discover that their accountant has embezzled millions and pinned the blame on them. Forced to go on the lam, Brad and Caroline end up in an Amish area of Pennsylvania and decide to pose as members of the religious group to evade the IRS. As the two adapt to the simple Amish lifestyle, they begin to reconnect.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1997-12-11
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The Brave Little Toaster Goes to Mars
Overview: Based on the book by Thomas M. Disch and intended as the third film in the series, this sequel was finished and released prior to 'The Brave Little Toaster To The Rescue'. Whilst trying to protect their new "Little Master" the anthropomorphic appliances set off on an epic adventure and make many new friends along the way.
Genres: Animation Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1998-05-19
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Master Spy: The Robert Hanssen Story
Overview: True story about the cat and mouse game between the FBI trying to find a Soviet mole in their ranks and Robert Hanssen, one of the top FBI agents and said mole
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2002-11-10
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Dead Again
Overview: In 1949, composer Roman Strauss is executed for the murder of his wife. In 1990s Los Angeles, a detective comes across a mute amnesiac woman who is somehow linked to the Strauss murder.
Genres: Mystery Drama Crime Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1991-08-23
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Scooby-Doo! and the Goblin King
Overview: Scooby-Doo and Shaggy must go into the underworld ruled by The Goblin King in order to stop a mortal named The Amazing Krudsky who wants power and is a threat to their pals: Fred, Velma, and Daphne.
Genres: Adventure Animation Comedy Family Fantasy Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2008-09-23
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Punisher: War Zone
Overview: Waging his one-man war on the world of organized crime, ruthless vigilante-hero Frank Castle sets his sights on overeager mob boss Billy Russoti. After Russoti is left horribly disfigured by Castle, he sets out for vengeance under his new alias: Jigsaw. With the "Punisher Task Force" hot on his trail and the FBI unable to take Jigsaw in, Frank must stand up to the formidable army that Jigsaw has recruited before more of his evil deeds go unpunished.
Genres: Action Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2008-12-05
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Rat Race
Overview: In an ensemble film about easy money, greed, manipulation and bad driving, a Las Vegas casino tycoon entertains his wealthiest high rollers -- a group that will bet on anything -- by pitting six ordinary people against each other in a wild dash for $2 million jammed into a locker hundreds of miles away. The tycoon and his wealthy friends monitor each racer's every move to keep track of their favorites. The only rule in this race is that there are no rules.
Genres: Adventure Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2001-08-17
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Dinotopia: Quest for the Ruby Sunstone
Overview: An Orphaned Boy sets out in search of adventure, but when a shipwreck lands him on an island where Dinosaurs and Humans coexist, he finds not only adventure but a family as well.
Genres: Fantasy Science Fiction Family Animation
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2005-05-17
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Tarzan
Overview: Tarzan was a small orphan who was raised by an ape named Kala since he was a child. He believed that this was his family, but on an expedition Jane Porter is rescued by Tarzan. He then finds out that he's human. Now Tarzan must make the decision as to which family he should belong to...
Genres: Family Adventure Animation Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1999-06-18
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Buzz Lightyear of Star Command: The Adventure Begins
Overview: Buzz Lightyear must battle Emperor Zurg with the help of three hopefuls who insist on being his partners.
Genres: Animation Family Comedy Science Fiction Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2000-08-08
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The Making of 'Jurassic Park'
Overview: This documentary treats film fans to a behind-the-scenes look at the making of "Jurassic Park," one of the 90's biggest hits and a milestone in special effects development. Narrated by James Earl Jones, it includes footage of the filming process, as well as interviews with director Steven Spielberg, and other members of the cast and crew, who give their insights into what it was like working together on this project and the efforts it took to bring the film to completion.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1995-04-23
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Chameleon
Overview: An undercover agent uses his rare personality disorder in pursuing the drug-cartel leader responsible for the deaths of his wife and kids.
Genres: Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1996-03-26
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Darby and the Dead
Overview: After Darby Harper suffered a near-death experience as a child, she gained the ability to see ghosts. To combat the existential boredom of high school, she runs a side business counseling local spirits in her spare time. When an unexpected occurrence happens between Darby and Capri, the most popular girl at her high school, Darby reluctantly agrees to help her and in the process learns how to fit in with the living world again.
Genres: Comedy Fantasy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2022-12-02
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Excuse Me for Living
Overview: A charming, suicidal druggie must obey his rehab-clinic's demand to lead a seniors men's group or face incarceration and lose the love of his psychiatrist's daughter.
Genres: Romance Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2012-10-12
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The Sex O'Clock News
Overview: Director and co-writer Romano Vanderbes attempts to satirize middle America's standard news broadcasts with as many jokes about sex as possible. The featured station is KSEX and Doug Ballard and Lydia Mahan play the anchors in a broadcast where blue does not mean melancholy
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1985-08-09
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Pros & Cons
Overview: Framed for crimes they didn't commit, two small-timers are headed up the river without a paddle. Now, the only thing that can bail them out is a case of mistaken identity. It's the hysterical prison comedy that's so funny, it's criminal!
Genres: Comedy Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1999-01-01
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Urkel Saves Santa: The Movie!
Overview: The holiday season has arrived, and brilliant but accident-prone Steve Urkel has already ruined his local celebration by publicly humiliating a shopping mall Santa. In his attempt to make things right and score some nice points with the big guy in the North Pole, Steve creates an invention that only makes things worse. Using his big brain and even bigger heart, Steve must find the real Santa to see if together they can help the city rediscover the holiday spirit.
Genres: Animation Family Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2023-11-21
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The Wanderers
Overview: The streets of the Bronx are owned by '60s youth gangs where the joy and pain of adolescence is lived. Philip Kaufman tells his take on the novel by Richard Price about the history of the Italian-American gang ‘The Wanderers.’
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1979-07-13
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Who's Your Monkey?
Overview: In Jacksonville, Florida, four friends since grade school who are now in their early 30s face the challenges of adulthood: Hutto is about to become a father, Laith is intimidated by his girlfriend's sexuality, a grieving Bobby drinks heavily and sleeps on the grave of a girlfriend who's been dead 18 months, and Mark, an OB/GYN who loves his work, can't practice medicine because he can't afford malpractice insurance. Things come to a head when Mark needs his three friends' help after a belligerent animal-abusing pornographer attacks Mark with a gun over something Laith did. A midnight road trip tests friendship: can the guys help each other?
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2007-06-10
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Billy & Mandy's Jacked-Up Halloween
Overview: Jack, a headless prankster from Grim's past, uses Billy to steal Grim's scythe so he can destroy Grim and take over the world with demons from the Netherworld.
Genres: Animation Comedy Adventure Horror TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2003-10-31
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Kung Fu Panda
Overview: When the Valley of Peace is threatened, lazy Po the panda discovers his destiny as the "chosen one" and trains to become a kung fu hero, but transforming the unsleek slacker into a brave warrior won't be easy. It's up to Master Shifu and the Furious Five -- Tigress, Crane, Mantis, Viper and Monkey -- to give it a try.
Genres: Action Adventure Animation Family Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2008-06-04
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Bleacher Bums
Overview: They're known as the Bleacher Bums, a loud and proud group of fans who watch their team's games from the stadium's cheap seats. Most of them have been attending for years, tirelessly rooting for a team that never seems to win. They know each other, but that's no guarantee that they'll get along. As the game unfolds, the Bums argue, wager, cheer and boo... and discover they share more in common than they could ever have imagined.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2001-10-18
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Born on the Fourth of July
Overview: Paralyzed in the Vietnam war, Ron Kovic becomes an anti-war and pro-human rights political activist after feeling betrayed by the country he fought for.
Genres: Drama War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1989-12-20
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Jurassic Park
Overview: A wealthy entrepreneur secretly creates a theme park featuring living dinosaurs drawn from prehistoric DNA. Before opening day, he invites a team of experts and his two eager grandchildren to experience the park and help calm anxious investors. However, the park is anything but amusing as the security systems go off-line and the dinosaurs escape.
Genres: Adventure Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1993-06-11
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Hail, Caesar!
Overview: When a Hollywood star mysteriously disappears in the middle of filming, the studio sends their fixer to get him back.
Genres: Comedy Crime Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2016-02-05
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Kung Fu Panda: Legends of Awesomeness - Good Croc, Bad Croc
Overview: Po gets suckered by Fung to break into a castle.
Genres: Family Animation Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2013-06-18
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Kung Fu Panda 3
Overview: While Po and his father are visiting a secret panda village, an evil spirit threatens all of China, forcing Po to form a ragtag army to fight back.
Genres: Action Adventure Animation Comedy Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2016-01-23
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Hercules
Overview: Bestowed with superhuman strength, a young mortal named Hercules sets out to prove himself a hero in the eyes of his father, the great god Zeus. Along with his friends Pegasus, a flying horse, and Phil, a personal trainer, Hercules is tricked by the hilarious, hotheaded villain Hades, who's plotting to take over Mount Olympus!
Genres: Animation Family Fantasy Adventure Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1997-06-13
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The Day the Earth Blew Up: A Looney Tunes Movie
Overview: Porky and Daffy, the classic animated odd couple, turn into unlikely heroes when their antics at the local bubble gum factory uncover a secret alien mind control plot. Against all odds, the two are determined to save their town (and the world!)...that is if they don't drive each other crazy in the process.
Genres: Animation Comedy Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2024-08-01
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Forever, Lulu
Overview: When Elaine, an adventurous young woman from Germany, arrives in New York City, she sets out to be a famous writer. After a brief stint at a mundane job, Elaine falls on hard times and also becomes intrigued by a mysterious stranger named Lulu. Before long, Elaine gets roped into situations involving theft, murder and the mob. Can the beleaguered expatriate with big dreams turn her life around and steer clear of crime and chaos?
Genres: Comedy Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1986-11-13
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What Ever Happened to Jonny Faith
Overview: A famous country singer, who disappeared at the height of his career 30 years ago, tries to make things right with his son before it is too late.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2023-07-20
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Kung Fu Panda: Panda Paws
Overview: A short film which serves as a prequel to Kung Fu Panda 3 in which Mei Mei and Bao compete with one another at the Spring Festival.
Genres: Animation Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2016-05-13
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Double Negative
Overview: Horror film director must plot to steal the negative of his film in order to save it from being destroyed in an insurance scam cooked up by his sleazy producers.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1985-01-01
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V.I. Warshawski
Overview: Victoria "V.I" Warshawski is a Chicago based private detective who agrees to babysit for her new boyfriend; then he is murdered. Being the detective type, she makes the murder her next case. In doing so she befriends the victim's daughter, Kat, and together they set out to crack the case.
Genres: Crime Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1991-07-26
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Blindspotting
Overview: Collin must make it through his final three days of probation for a chance at a new beginning. He and his troublemaking childhood best friend, Miles, work as movers, and when Collin witnesses a police shooting, the two men’s friendship is tested as they grapple with identity and their changed realities in the rapidly-gentrifying neighborhood they grew up in.
Genres: Comedy Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2018-07-20
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Double Edge
Overview: In this fast paced action-thriller, daytime's top star Susan Lucci plays two roles: both a crack FBI agent and the elusive killer-for-hire who she stalks in a deadly game of hide-and-seek. Each driven by an obsession to succeed, the perfectly matched competitors hurtle full-speed through a risky game od double-cross to an unexpected and deadly finish line.
Genres: Action Thriller TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1992-03-22
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12 Mighty Orphans
Overview: Haunted by his mysterious past, a devoted high school football coach leads a scrawny team of orphans to the state championship during the Great Depression and inspires a broken nation along the way.
Genres: History Drama Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2021-06-18
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For Lovers Only
Overview: A man, his daughter, and son-in-law run a honeymoon resort in the Poconos.
Genres: Comedy Romance TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1982-10-15
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T Bone N Weasel
Overview: A couple of con men look for paradise in a stolen car.
Genres: Comedy TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1992-11-02
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Hercules: Zero to Hero
Overview: The film briefly gives Hercules' history after defeating Hades for good, in which he marries Meg and revisits his teenage years. In particular, it shows an adolescent Hercules's enrollment and the beginning of his adventures at the Prometheus Academy, a school for gods and mortals, which Hercules supposedly attended during the time when he was training to be a hero with his mentor, the satyr Philoctetes.
Genres: Animation Family Action Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1999-08-17
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Woke Up Dead
Overview: Drex Greene (Jon Heder), a confused zombie who can’t be any deader, tries to solve the case of the mystery pill that left him drowned in a bathtub. With the help of his wannabe filmmaker roommate Matt (Josh Gad) and the sexy med student Cassie (Krysten Ritter), who first discovers Drex as he unzips himself from his own body bag, the three begin to uncover leads about why his death didn’t stick, why a mystery online chat buddy is after him and why he’s starting to show signs of superpowers. Will they figure out why Drex is only sort of dead? Will Cassie discover ancient Zombie secrets? Will Matt get a film career out of it? Or is falling in love actually what Drex needs to do to stay alive?
Genres: Comedy Drama Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2010-11-05
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Back to the Outback
Overview: Tired of being locked in a reptile house where humans gawk at them like they are monsters, a ragtag group of Australia’s deadliest creatures plot an escape from their zoo to the Outback, a place where they’ll fit in without being judged.
Genres: Family Animation Adventure Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2021-12-03
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Tom and Jerry: The Lost Dragon
Overview: Tom and Jerry find a dragon egg, and help the baby dragon find its mother.
Genres: Animation Comedy Family Fantasy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2014-07-27
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Everybody's All-American
Overview: Louisiana football star Gavin Grey had it all. He was an All-American champion who married his high-school sweetheart, homecoming queen Babs Rogers, and who was a hero to his hometown. Yet after a failed professional career, Gavin realizes that fame and success have passed him by and that he no longer is the hero everyone keeps reminding him he should still be. His dissatisfaction with his life leads to strains in his marriage, and Gavin begins to wonder who he is, if he's not a hero anymore.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1988-11-04
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Cheaper by the Dozen
Overview: The Baker brood moves to Chicago after patriarch Tom gets a job coaching football at Northwestern University, forcing his writer wife, Mary, and the couple's 12 children to make a major adjustment. The transition works well until work demands pull the parents away from home, leaving the kids bored -- and increasingly mischievous.
Genres: Comedy Family Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2003-12-24
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The Burning Bed
Overview: An abused battered wife has had enough of husband beating up on her. Everywhere she turns for help, there's not much anyone will do. After he rapes her one night, she sets the bed on fire with him in it asleep.
Genres: Crime Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1984-10-08
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The Very Excellent Mr. Dundee
Overview: Paul Hogan is reluctantly thrust back into the spotlight as he desperately attempts to restore his sullied reputation on the eve of being knighted.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2020-12-10
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Making Rat Race
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Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2002-01-29
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