Alessandro Nivola
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Biography: Alessandro Antine Nivola (born June 28, 1972) is an American actor. He's best known for his roles as Pollux Troy in Face/Off, Detective Conley in the movie Boston Strangler, Detective Hiltz in Amsterdam, Dickie Moltisanti I.The Many Saints of Newark, photojournalist Lee Berger in the miniseries Chimerica, Governor Williams in You Were Never Really Here, Mark Madoff in The Wizard of Lies, Peter Forente in A Most Violent Year, Anthony Amado in American Hustle, Arthur "Boy" Capel in Coco Before Chanel, Billy Brennan in Jurassic Park III, and Mr. Henry Crawford in Mansfield Park.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Boston, Massachusetts, USA
Birthday: June 28, 1972
Adult: No
Gender: Male
TMDb-Id: 4941
IMDb-Id: nm0005273
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Jurassic Park III
Overview: In need of funds for research, Dr. Alan Grant accepts a large sum of money to accompany Paul and Amanda Kirby on an aerial tour of the infamous Isla Sorna. It isn't long before all hell breaks loose and the stranded wayfarers must fight for survival as a host of new -- and even more deadly -- dinosaurs try to make snacks of them.
Genres: Adventure Action Thriller Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2001-07-18
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Junebug
Overview: On the way to meet with an independent artist in the South, newlywed art dealer Madeleine is convinced by her husband, George, that they should stop to meet his family in North Carolina. Madeleine's affluent lifestyle clashes with the family, but she befriends George's wide-eyed and pregnant sister-in-law, Ashley, who is nearing her due date. Through the family, Madeleine gains greater insight into George's character.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2005-08-03
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Face/Off
Overview: In order to foil a terrorist plot, an FBI agent undergoes facial transplant surgery and assumes the identity of a criminal mastermind. The plan turns sour when the criminal wakes up prematurely and seeks revenge.
Genres: Action Crime Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1997-06-27
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Wildcat
Overview: Can scandalous art still serve God? Does suffering precede all greatness? Can illness be a blessing? In 1950, writer Flannery O'Connor visits her mother Regina in Georgia when she is diagnosed with lupus at twenty-four years old. Struggling with the same disease that took her father’s life when she was a child and desperate to make her mark as a great writer, this crisis pitches her imagination into a feverish exploration of belief.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2024-05-03
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Mansfield Park
Overview: Fanny, born into a poor family, is sent away to live with wealthy uncle Sir Thomas, his wife and their four children, where she'll be brought up for a proper introduction to society. She is treated unfavorably by her relatives, except for her cousin Edmund, whom she grows fond of. However, Fanny's life is thrown into disarray with the arrival of worldly Mary Crawford and her brother Henry.
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1999-11-12
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The Clearing
Overview: When affluent executive Wayne Hayes is kidnapped by a disgruntled employee and held for ransom in a forest, Wayne’s wife is forced to reckon with the FBI agents as they negotiate with the kidnapper.
Genres: Drama Mystery Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2004-07-02
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$5 a Day
Overview: After being released from jail, the son of a con man joins his father on the road.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2008-09-06
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Carolina
Overview: A young woman escapes her wildly eccentric family in search for a life of normalcy.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2003-07-04
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Coco Before Chanel
Overview: Several years after leaving the orphanage, to which her father never returned for her, Gabrielle Chanel finds herself working in a provincial bar. She's both a seamstress for the performers and a singer, earning the nickname Coco from the song she sings nightly with her sister. A liaison with Baron Balsan gives her an entree into French society and a chance to develop her gift for designing.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2009-04-22
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Grace Is Gone
Overview: Upon hearing his wife was killed in the Iraq war, a father takes his two daughters on a road trip, all the while searching for the right time and place to tell them about their mother's fate.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2007-12-07
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Who Do You Love
Overview: Who Do You Love is the life story of legendary record producer Leonard Chess, founder of Chess Records in Chicago, IL, the label that helped popularize blues music during the 1950s and ’60s.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2008-09-11
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The Eye
Overview: Violinist Sydney Wells was accidentally blinded by her sister Helen when she was five years old. She submits to a cornea transplantation, and while recovering from the operation, she realizes that she is seeing dead people.
Genres: Drama Horror Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2008-02-01
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Goal!
Overview: Like millions of kids around the world, Santiago harbors the dream of being a professional footballer... However, living in the Barrios section of Los Angeles, he thinks it is only that—a dream. Until one day an extraordinary turn of events has him trying out for Premiership club Newcastle United.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2005-09-29
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Goal II: Living the Dream
Overview: Tempted away from Newcastle United to join Real Madrid, rising star Santiago Munez finds this latest change of fortune the greatest challenge yet - personally as well as professionally. He is reunited with Gavin Harris, though they must compete to be on the team, and estranged from fiancee Roz, whose nursing career keeps her back home.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2007-02-09
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Laurel Canyon
Overview: When an uptight young man and his fiancée move into his libertine mother's house, the resulting clash of life attitudes shakes everyone up.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2003-03-07
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I Want You
Overview: A young boy and his sister are drawn into one man's obsessive pursuit of his former lover.
Genres: Thriller Crime Drama Music Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1998-02-15
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Boston Strangler
Overview: Reporters Loretta McLaughlin and Jean Cole bravely pursue the story of the Boston Strangler at great personal risk, putting their own lives on the line in their quest to uncover the truth.
Genres: Crime Mystery Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2023-03-16
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The Girl in the Park
Overview: A mother, enduringly traumatized by the disappearance of her three-year old daughter 15 years ago, has cut herself off from her ex-husband and son. However, when a troubled young woman with a checkered past enters her life, old psychic wounds painfully resurface, as does the illogical and increasingly irrational hope that the young woman may be the daughter she lost so long ago.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2007-09-09
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Reach the Rock
Overview: A small town troublemaker, directionless and alienated, ends up spending a night in a jail cell, where he and the police chief engage in a battle of wills and wit.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1998-10-16
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The Brutalist
Overview: Escaping post-war Europe, visionary architect László Toth arrives in America to rebuild his life, his work, and his marriage to his wife Erzsébet after being forced apart during wartime by shifting borders and regimes. On his own in a strange new country, László settles in Pennsylvania, where the wealthy and prominent industrialist Harrison Lee Van Buren recognizes his talent for building. But power and legacy come at a heavy cost.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2024-12-20
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Howl
Overview: It's San Francisco in 1957, and an American masterpiece is put on trial. Howl, the film, recounts this dark moment using three interwoven threads: the tumultuous life events that led a young Allen Ginsberg to find his true voice as an artist, society's reaction (the obscenity trial), and mind-expanding animation that echoes the startling originality of the poem itself. All three coalesce in a genre-bending hybrid that brilliantly captures a pivotal moment-the birth of a counterculture.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2010-08-26
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The Sisters
Overview: Based on Anton Chekov's "The Three Sisters" about siblings living in a college town who struggle with the death of their father and try to reconcile relationships in their own lives.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2005-04-23
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The Darwin Awards
Overview: After botching the capture of a notorious serial killer, idiosyncratic detective Michael Burrows loses his job with the San Francisco Police. He becomes an investigator for an insurance company and joins forces with a cynical field agent to probe suspicious and unusual deaths.
Genres: Adventure Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2006-07-05
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Best Laid Plans
Overview: Rich, successful Bryce meets beautiful Lissa at a bar one night and invites her back to his house, not suspecting for a moment that Lissa isn't really who she seems. What unfolds next is a dangerous, tangled web of double-crosses and seduction.
Genres: Drama Thriller Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1999-04-09
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Love's Labour's Lost
Overview: The King of Navarre and his three companions swear a very public oath to study together and to renounce women for three years. Their honour is immediately put to the test by the arrival of the Princess of France and her three lovely companions. It's love at first sight for all concerned followed by the men's hopeless efforts to disguise their feelings.
Genres: Comedy Music Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2000-03-31
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The Ring
Overview: During WW II, a young German woman is separated from her family and imprisoned by the Nazis. After being freed she falls in love with and marries a German officer. When Berlin falls to the Russians, and her husband killed, she flees to America, carrying his unborn child, all the while not giving up hope that she will find her family, tied together by her mother's ring.
Genres: TV Movie Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1996-10-20
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Janie Jones
Overview: A young girl who has been abandoned by her former-groupie mother informs a fading rock star that she is his daughter.
Genres: Drama Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2010-09-17
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Kraven the Hunter
Overview: Kraven Kravinoff's complex relationship with his ruthless gangster father, Nikolai, starts him down a path of vengeance with brutal consequences, motivating him to become not only the greatest hunter in the world, but also one of its most feared.
Genres: Action Adventure Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2024-12-11
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Ginger & Rosa
Overview: A look at the lives of two teenage girls - inseparable friends Ginger and Rosa -- growing up in 1960s London as the Cuban Missile Crisis looms, and the pivotal event the comes to redefine their relationship.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2012-10-18
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Devil's Knot
Overview: The savage murders of three young children sparks a controversial trial of three teenagers accused of killing the kids as part of a satanic ritual.
Genres: Crime Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2013-05-09
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The Almost Perfect Bank Robbery
Overview: A cop and his expensive fiancée, a bank teller, plan the perfect bank robbery. All goes well until the FBI suspects, almost immediately, an inside job
Genres: Action Comedy TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1999-07-21
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American Hustle
Overview: A conman and his seductive partner are forced to work for a wild FBI agent, who pushes them into a world of Jersey power-brokers and the Mafia.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2013-12-03
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Selma
Overview: "Selma," as in Alabama, the place where segregation in the South was at its worst, leading to a march that ended in violence, forcing a famous statement by President Lyndon B. Johnson that ultimately led to the signing of the Voting Rights Act.
Genres: History Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2014-12-25
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Timecode
Overview: A production company begins casting for its next feature, and an up-and-coming actress named Rose tries to manipulate her filmmaker boyfriend, Alex, into giving her a screen test. Alex's wife, Emma, knows about the affair and is considering divorce, while Rose's girlfriend secretly spies on her and attempts to sabotage the relationship. The four storylines in the film were each shot in one take and are shown simultaneously, each taking up a quarter of the screen.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2000-04-28
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A Most Violent Year
Overview: A thriller set in New York City during the winter of 1981, statistically one of the most violent years in the city's history, and centered on the lives of an immigrant and his family trying to expand their business and capitalize on opportunities as the rampant violence, decay, and corruption of the day drag them in and threaten to destroy all they have built.
Genres: Crime Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2014-12-31
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With/In Volume 2
Overview: An anthology film that centres around relationships, love and family. A man misses his flight and instead finds love in quarantine, a lonely therapist finds companionship in an unwanted pet, two sisters find courage to say things they never had the words to say, and an unexpected packet of sourdough starter has horrifying and hilarious consequences. These are some of the stories captured in WITH/IN, a collection of thirteen films created by actors and their families during the time that changed our lives forever.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2022-03-15
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Day Out of Days
Overview: In Los Angeles, a 40-year-old actress works to make it in the cutthroat business of Hollywood while contending with ever-youthful competition.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2015-06-14
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The Room Next Door
Overview: Ingrid and Martha were close friends in their youth, when they worked together at the same magazine. Ingrid went on to become an autofiction novelist while Martha became a war reporter, and they were separated by the circumstances of life. After years of being out of touch, they meet again in an extreme but strangely sweet situation.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2024-10-07
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The Wizard of Lies
Overview: A look behind the scenes at Bernie Madoff's massive Ponzi scheme, how it was perpetrated on the public and the trail of destruction it left in its wake, both for the victims and Madoff's family.
Genres: Crime Drama History Thriller TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2017-05-11
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Downton Abbey 3
Overview: Plot details under wraps.
Genres: Drama Romance History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2025-09-10
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Inventing the Abbotts
Overview: In the 1950s, brothers Jacey and Doug Holt, who come from the poorer side of their sleepy Midwestern town, vie for the affections of the wealthy, lovely Abbott sisters. Lady-killer Jacey alternates between Eleanor and Alice, wanting simply to break the hearts of rich young women. But sensitive Doug has a real romance with Pamela, which Jacey and the Abbott patriarch, Lloyd, both frown upon.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1997-04-04
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The Neon Demon
Overview: When aspiring model Jesse moves to Los Angeles, her youth and vitality are devoured by a group of beauty-obsessed women who will take any means necessary to get what she has.
Genres: Thriller Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2016-05-31
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One Percent More Humid
Overview: A pair of childhood friends reunite during their summer break from college and deal with a traumatizing experience from their past.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2017-04-21
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You Were Never Really Here
Overview: A traumatised veteran, unafraid of violence, tracks down missing girls for a living. When a job spins out of control, his nightmares overtake him as a conspiracy is uncovered leading to what may be his death trip or his awakening.
Genres: Crime Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2017-11-08
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Disobedience
Overview: A woman learns about the death of her Orthodox Jewish father, a rabbi. She returns home and has romantic feelings rekindled for her best childhood friend, who is now married to her cousin.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2018-04-24
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The Red Sea Diving Resort
Overview: Sudan, East Africa, 1980. A team of Israeli Mossad agents plans to rescue and transfer thousands of Ethiopian Jews to Israel. To do so, and to avoid raising suspicions from the inquisitive and ruthless authorities, they establish as a cover a fake diving resort by the Red Sea.
Genres: Drama Thriller History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2019-07-28
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The Art of Self-Defense
Overview: Casey is attacked at random on the street and enlists in a local dojo led by a charismatic and mysterious Sensei in an effort to learn how to defend himself. What he uncovers is a sinister world of fraternity, violence and hypermasculinity and a woman fighting for her place in it.
Genres: Comedy Thriller Drama Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2019-07-12
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Weightless
Overview: An emotionally troubled man is forced to care for the obese 10-year-old son he has never met. Together they embark on a high-stakes journey to determine their future together, even as the world tries to tear them apart.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2018-11-09
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The Many Saints of Newark
Overview: Young Anthony Soprano is growing up in one of the most tumultuous eras in Newark, N.J., history, becoming a man just as rival gangsters start to rise up and challenge the all-powerful DiMeo crime family. Caught up in the changing times is the uncle he idolizes, Dickie Moltisanti, whose influence over his nephew will help shape the impressionable teenager into the all-powerful mob boss, Tony Soprano.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2021-09-22
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Turning Green
Overview: Set in late 1970s Ireland, it tells the story of 16-year-old James Powers, an American who finds himself lost after his mother dies and he is forced to live with his three Irish aunts. Displaced and depressed, he longs for a way to make it back to America. One lucky weekend in London, James discovers pornography and, desperate for cash, he decides to sell them back in Ireland. His success spreads wildly. After finding a possible way home, he must decide where home really is, and finds that one's place in the world is all a state of mind.
Genres: Drama Action Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2005-06-11
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Amsterdam
Overview: In the 1930s, three friends—a doctor, a nurse, and an attorney—witness a murder, become suspects themselves and uncover one of the most outrageous plots in American history.
Genres: Mystery Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2022-09-27
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Spin Me Round
Overview: When the manager of an Italian restaurant chain wins the opportunity to attend the franchise’s educational immersion program in Italy, what she thought would be a romantic getaway devolves into chaos and catastrophe.
Genres: Romance Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2022-08-19
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With/In Volume 2
Overview: Giving creatives the chance to step outside the box while being confined to their own homes, the filmmakers behind With/In range from seasoned directors to first-timers, all provided with the same iPhone and basic gear to bring their visions to life.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2021-06-14
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Fantasy Life
Overview: After losing his job as a paralegal, Sam Stein suffers a panic attack and stumbles into a job babysitting his psychiatrist's three granddaughters. The girls' mother, Dianne, is an actor whose once-promising career has stalled; she's in a difficult marriage to David, a rock bassist. When David goes abroad on tour, Dianne and Sam discover an easy rapport as well as a shared history of mental illness. Sam joins Dianne's family to babysit for the summer on Martha's Vineyard, and he ends up in a house with the woman he pines for, her husband, the three kids, and all four grandparents, including his psychiatrist.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2025-03-08
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Goal IV: Dreams Never End
Overview: Santiago Muñez, now a seasoned football manager, takes on a high-profile role at a top European club, where the star player is Mambinho, his Brazilian half-brother. Mambinho, who rose to stardom through viral social media videos showcasing his incredible skills and connection to Santiago, is now a key figure in the team. Despite knowing of Mambinho's presence, managing him proves to be an emotional challenge as they navigate a strained relationship and the pressure of maintaining success on the pitch.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2026-05-22
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Diamond Shitter
Overview: In Geneva's wealthy international circles, privileged expatriates navigate their luxurious lives while dealing with personal dramas and hidden secrets.
Genres: Thriller
Original Language: en
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The Light and the Dark: The Making of 'Face/Off'
Overview: A five-part documentary with interviews from the director, cast and crew, and some behind-scenes footage.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2007-09-11
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