R.H. Thomson
Also Known As: R.H. Thomson, R.H. Thompson, RH Thomson, Роберт Холмс Томсон, Robert Holmes Thomson
Biography: Robert Holmes "R. H." Thomson, CM (born September 24, 1947) is a Canadian television, film and stage actor. Thomson was born in Richmond Hill, Ontario. He studied at the University of Toronto, and the National Theatre School. His own play The Lost Boys was staged at the Great Canadian Theatre Company in March 2000 and at Canadian Stage in February 2002. Thomson has also hosted programming for CBC Radio and CBC Television. In 2010, he was appointed a Member of the Order of Canada. Thomson has portrayed a number of historical figures including Charlie Grant, Samuel Lount, Edsel Ford, Dr. Frederick Banting, Duncan Campbell Scott, Mitchell Sharp, and James Cross. From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Richmond Hill, Ontario, Canada
Birthday: September 24, 1947
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Gender: Male
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Escape From Iran: The Canadian Caper
Overview: A dramatized account of how the staff of the Canadian Embassy helped a group of American diplomats escape from Iran during the Iranian Revolution.
Genres: History Drama Thriller TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1981-05-17
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Who Loves the Sun
Overview: A man (Lukas Haas) encounters a childhood friend (Adam Scott) who had an affair with his wife (Molly Parker) five years earlier.
Genres: Comedy Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2006-01-04
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Chloe
Overview: A doctor hires an escort to seduce her husband, whom she suspects of cheating, though unforeseen events put the family in danger.
Genres: Drama Thriller Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2010-02-25
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Heaven On Earth
Overview: An armful of destitute orphans transported to the New World at the turn of the century. This is the turbulent and moving story of four British 'bricks for Empire building' - based on the memoirs of some of the 100,000 'home children' who helped build the new Canada.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1987-03-01
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The Dinosaur Hunter
Overview: A 13-year-old girl and her older brother live on a farm where paleontologists search for fossils.
Genres: Adventure Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2000-08-05
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The Last Curlew
Overview: A grieving widower and his reluctant, teenage granddaughter embark on a pilgrimage of hope and faith that become a turning point in each of their lives.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2023-04-15
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The Royal Scandal
Overview: Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes - the world's greatest detective - faces a most alluring adversary... Legendary opera star Irene Adler is threatening to destroy the King of Bohemia's reputation with proof of their illicit affair. The evidence? A photograph. Her ransom? The king's hand in marriage. But not only does investigating detective Sherlock Holmes already know Irene from the past, he also knows that the queen of manipulation would never resort to such a common crime. After uncovering her true ambitions, Holmes draws the cunning songstress into a well-matched game of cat and mouse
Genres: Crime Thriller Mystery TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2001-10-19
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Ford: The Man and the Machine
Overview: Adapted from a book by Robert Lacey, this biographical film chronicles both the private and public life of automobile manufacturer Henry Ford (Cliff Robertson).
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1987-05-11
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Mark Twain and Me
Overview: During the final years of his life, the famous writer Samuel "Mark Twain" Clemens is befriended by a young girl named Dorothy Quick.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1991-11-22
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Net Worth
Overview: The story of the NHL's early years, focusing on the battle between the players, led by Hall of Famer Ted Lindsay, and the owners, over issues of benefits, pensions and the like.
Genres: History Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1995-01-01
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Full-Court Miracle
Overview: Inspired by the true story of University of Virginia basketball star Lamont Carr, the film centers on a group of young Jewish basketball players who search for a coach to help them out of a slump. The main character Alex Schlotsky is inspired by the true story of Alex Barbag and Chad Korpeck.
Genres: TV Movie Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2003-11-21
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Martin's Day
Overview: Threatened with recapture after a prison escape, Martin Stechert grabs a 12-year-old as hostage. He proves to be named Martin, too a quiet "good little boy" always obeying the rules, whom life has given only dismal loneliness and frustration in return. Soon he begins to admire "Stech" for his cheeky pranks against society and his desperate mission to make dreams come true. In a climactic moment, he chooses to stay with the man even though he could run away. Via hijacks and hijinx, they flee to the idyllic peace of the older Martin's childhood home, a cabin on a lake. But the police are close behind, impatient and trigger-happy.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1985-02-22
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If You Could See What I Hear
Overview: A light comedy/love story based on the life of blind musician Tom Sullivan.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1982-01-07
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Hell on Heels: The Battle of Mary Kay
Overview: Cosmetics mogul Mary Kay Ash faces competition from a driven newcomer, who plots to take apart her control of the makeup industry.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2002-10-06
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The Lotus Eaters
Overview: Set off the West Coast of Canada in 1965, a hip new teacher with a miniskirt and lots of ideas turns a small town upside down. The soft autumn light of Galiano Island is beautifully rendered in writer/producer Peggy Thompson's The Lotus Eaters, and that's not the only elusive element that this film has captured. In revisiting its particular time and place - the Gulf Islands of the early '60s -Thompson obviously draws on her own family experiences there. For those who share Thompson's love of Gulf Islands magic, the elements she has assembled will feel as familiar as their own childhood blanket. But there are problems at the core of this story about a family's loss of innocence.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1993-09-12
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And Then You Die
Overview: A drug deal must deal with the mafia, Hells Angels, and police who want to arrest him. -- WorldCat
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1987-01-01
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Inner Mountains, Inner Valleys: The Life and Writing of Ernest Buckler
Overview: Biographic film about Canadian author Ernest Buckler.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1993-01-01
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Glory Enough For All
Overview: Glory Enough for All is the 1988 television movie depicting the discovery and isolation of insulin at the University of Toronto by Frederick Banting and Charles Herbert Best. It won the 1989 Gemini award for best miniseries.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1988-06-27
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Silent Cradle
Overview: A woman has a miscarriage. After her grief becomes bearable, she attempts to adopt a baby, but discovers evidence that her baby might not have been dead when it was removed from her stomach. If so, who took the baby, why and where?
Genres: Crime Drama Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1997-01-01
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Happy Memories
Overview: A woman attempts to resume her place in the family that she abandoned years earlier.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1981-10-08
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Trudeau
Overview: This docu-drama spans fifteen turbulent years in the political and personal life of Pierre Elliott Trudeau, one of the most enigmatic and polarizing Prime Ministers in Canadian history. The film explores the many facets of his character and his vision for his country which has both inspired and frustrated Canadians.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2002-03-31
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Well Kept Secrets: Athanasia
Overview: A young American woman returns to her Greek roots in search of her real father. Accompanied by her stepfather, she shatters the very myths designed to protect her. She uncovers an unlikely relationship between those who raised her, a globe-trotting photojournalist and Athanasia. Athanasia, a girl with no right in life. A choice of nature, but not of her community. Angela finds her father and discovers her mother.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: el
Release Date: 2008-12-04
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The Quarrel
Overview: Montreal 1948. On Rosh Hashanah, Chaim (a Yiddish writer) is forced to think of his religion when he's asked to be the tenth in a minyan. As he sits in the park, he suddenly sees an old friend whom he hasn't seen since they quarrelled when they were yeshiva students together. Hersh, a rabbi, survived Auschwitz and his faith was strengthened by his ordeal, while Chaim escaped the Nazis, but had lost his faith long before. The two walk together, reminisce, and argue passionately about themselves, their actions, their lives, their religion, their old quarrel, and their friendship.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1991-03-01
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Surfacing
Overview: Following her father's puzzling disappearance, Kate and her city-bred companions brave the untamed backwoods in a desperate search for him. However, the harsh environment becomes a dangerous catalyst for their explosive mix of personalities, propelling them into a world of raw emotion and unbridled passion.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1981-07-25
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Stellar
Overview: Set within the fluidity of time, touch, realism and reverie. Some may call this magic realism. Based within Indigenous knowledge and way of life, this story allows two people to heal, through touch, calm, love and patience in a fantastical space that leaves the audience dreamlike and yet it is dangerous and violent, there is love.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2022-09-11
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The Universal Clock: The Resistance of Peter Watkins
Overview: This feature documentary is a portrait of Peter Watkins, an Oscar®-winning British filmmaker who, for the past 4 decades, has proved that films can be made without compromise. With the proliferation of TV channels, documentaries are enjoying an unprecedented boom fuelled by audiences seeking an alternative to infotainment. But now documentary filmmaking, too, finds itself constrained by the imperatives of television. However, there is a rebel resisting this uniformity of the spirit. Pre-eminent among today's documentary filmmakers concerned about this mind-numbing standardization, Peter Watkins has never strayed from either his principles or the cause.
Genres: Documentary History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2001-09-07
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Ticket to Heaven
Overview: David is a young man seduced by a religious cult that uses starvation, exhaustion, and brainwashing to mold recruits into money hustling disciples of a messiah-like leader. Chronicles David's chilling transformation into a gaunt, mindless shadow of his former self...and his ultimate salvation when friends and family launch a plan to kidnap and deprogram him.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1981-10-09
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Charlotte
Overview: The true story of Charlotte Salomon, a young German-Jewish painter who comes of age in Berlin on the eve of the Second World War. Fiercely imaginative and deeply gifted, she dreams of becoming an artist. Her first love applauds her talent, which emboldens her resolve. When anti-Semitic policies inspire violent mobs, she escapes to the safety of the South of France. There she begins to paint again, and finds new love. But her work is interrupted, this time by a family tragedy that reveals an even darker secret. Believing that only an extraordinary act will save her, she embarks on the monumental adventure of painting her life story.
Genres: Animation Drama War History
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2021-09-13
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Crime in Connecticut: The Story of Alex Kelly
Overview: About a notorious Connecticut convicted rapist.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1999-03-16
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The Angry Man
Overview: Romain Dupree arrives to Montreal from France only to be informed that his son is dead. However the deceased is not his son but an individual who was using his passport so Dupree begins a frantic search for his son who happens to be wanted by the local mob.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1979-03-14
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Charlie Grant's War
Overview: A Canadian artist turned diamond merchant in Vienna, Austria risks his life to smuggle Jews out of the Third Reich.
Genres: Drama TV Movie War History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1985-01-27
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Bonds of Love
Overview: A divorced woman falls in love with a mentally-disabled man, but his family objects to their relationship.
Genres: Drama Romance TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1993-01-24
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An American Christmas Carol
Overview: In Depression-era New England, a miserly businessman named Benedict Slade receives a long-overdue attitude adjustment one Christmas Eve when he is visited by three ghostly figures who resemble three of the people whose possessions Slade had seized to collect on unpaid loans. Assuming the roles of the Ghosts of Christmas Past, Present, and Future from Charles Dickens' classic story, the three apparitions force Slade to face the consequences of his skinflint ways, and he becomes a caring, generous, amiable man.
Genres: Drama Family TV Movie Fantasy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1979-12-16
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My Breast
Overview: Meredith Baxter plays Joyce Wadler in this heartwarming story of hope, courage and redemption inspired by the New York City journalist's real-life struggle with breast cancer. Stuck in a lackluster relationship with her boyfriend, she's forced to re-examine her life when she receives the troubling diagnosis.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1994-05-15
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Murder at My Door
Overview: In a quiet neighborhood, a suburban family is shocked when their son is the prime suspect in the brutal murder of a neighbor's daughter.
Genres: Drama Thriller TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1996-10-08
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The Marriage Bed
Overview: Linda Griffiths stars as very pregnant Annie Graham, who's about to give birth to her third child in seven years. Annie looks back via flashbacks at how her own plans for a career got sidetracked and how her marriage suddenly went off the rails on a crazy train. At the same time she's trying to cope with a Christmas season full of inlaws, family and neighbours.. and a husband who's gone awol in order to 'find himself'.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1986-12-22
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Bone Daddy
Overview: Doctor Palmer, a former pathologist, wrote a fictional book based on his real cases. In the book, the madman gets caught, but in reality he is still uncaught. After the book is released, Palmer's editor is kidnapped. Palmer soon is sent a present containing a page of his book, and a bone from his editor. Together with the police, Palmer tries to find his editor, who might still be alive. In addition, his own son becomes one of the main suspects. Written by Julian Reischl
Genres: Thriller Crime Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1998-07-19
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Twilight of the Ice Nymphs
Overview: Set in a blazing land where the sun ceaselessly shines, this dramatic fantasy examines love’s darker aspects.
Genres: Fantasy Romance Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1997-09-09
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Samuel Lount
Overview: Back in 1837 in the Northwoods of Canada and beyond, a movement was started among the colonialists to demand the right to own property in the New World. This interesting docudrama follows the tragic outcome of that movement for one of its leaders, the pacifist and nearly beatific Samuel Lount (also the great-great-great uncle of producer Elvira Lount). The orator and journalist William Lyon Mackenzie stoked up the fire among the property-deprived, and a march on Toronto was begun. Lount was convinced to join the rebellion much against his better judgment -- he belonged to the Children of Peace religious sect. Lount's own pacifism meant nothing to the authorities; they executed Lount for treason after crushing the rebellion. R.H. Thomson plays the title role in this low-budget but high-energy effort.
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Original Language: en
Release Date: 1985-09-12
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The Piano Man's Daughter
Overview: Terrified of passing on the madness that runs in his family, Charlie Kilworth (Christian Campbell) stays away from relationships that could lead to marriage and children. Meanwhile, his grandparents (R.H. Thomson and Wendy Crewson) are debating whether to put his mother (Stockard Channing) into a mental institution. Whoopi Goldberg shares producing credits on this generational drama adapted from the acclaimed novel by Timothy Findley.
Genres: TV Movie Drama History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2003-09-22
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Stranger in My Bed
Overview: A woman gets amnesia after an accident, and doesn't remember her life, including her husband. While she tries to recall, she meets a man and begins a relationship with him.
Genres: Thriller Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1987-01-12
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Love's Complicated
Overview: Leah thinks all is fine coasting along in a relationship with the ever-predictable Edward until he surprises her and enrolls her in a conflict-management class. In the class, Leah finds herself locking horns with a handsome, radio talk-show host who thrives on making waves. Through the course, Leah develops new friendships, an inner strength she never knew she had and discovers real love should never mean settling for the easy and predictable.
Genres: Romance Comedy TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2016-01-09
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Max
Overview: The Blakes have a rancher in the burbs, 2 kids, a mid-sized American car, a gas barbecue and lawn furniture. Dad works in an office, Mom does something vague and equally meaningless. They are exactly like all the people you see on the freeway every morning. Something happens - their young son gets sick.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1994-12-02
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The Stork Derby
Overview: The woman who birthed the most children in the City of Toronto within a certain time period would inherit a fortune in the midst of the Great Depression
Genres: Drama History TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2002-01-08
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Vision Quest
Overview: After deciding he needs to do something meaningful with his life, high school wrestler Louden Swain sets out on a mission to drop weight and challenge the area's undefeated champion, which creates problems with his teammates and health. Matters are complicated further when Louden's father takes in an attractive female drifter who's on her way to San Francisco.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1985-02-15
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Hollywoodism: Jews, Movies and the American Dream
Overview: This film discusses the effect on how major American films in Hollywood were influenced by the Eastern European Jewish culture that most of the major movie moguls who controlled the studios shared. Through clips of various films, the filmmakers illustrate the dominant themes like that of the outsider, the outspoken American patriotism, and rooting for the underdog in society.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1998-03-22
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Population 436
Overview: A census-taker is sent to investigate why a certain small town has had the same population -- 436 residents -- for the last 100 years.
Genres: Horror Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2006-07-04
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Discussions in Bioethics: A Chronic Problem
Overview: One of a series of short, open-ended dramas designed to stimulate discussion of values and ethics in relation to modern medical technology. This film considers the chronic patient's right to quality care, and the acutely ill patient's right to a hospital bed. Jean is suffering from multiple sclerosis and is almost completely paralyzed. It seems that the only ones who care about her are the nurses. With the arrival of a patient in need of an operation, it becomes apparent that chronic patients have little priority.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1985-01-01
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Guy Maddin: Waiting for Twilight
Overview: Interviews with Guy Maddin and his pals are included in this documentary about the Canadian film-maker's life and movies. Features clips from most of Maddin's films up to Twilight of the Ice Nymphs, including Careful and Archangel.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1997-09-07
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Clara
Overview: An astronomer becomes obsessed with searching the cosmos for signs of life beyond Earth which leads to a shocking discovery.
Genres: Science Fiction Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2018-11-30
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The Terry Fox Story
Overview: The true story about the Canadian cancer amputee hero who decided to run across Canada on only one leg to raise money for cancer research.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1983-05-22
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The First Season
Overview: A British Columbia woman struggles to support herself and her daughter after the death of her husband. Nominated for achievements in editing and cinematography at the 11th Genie awards.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1989-09-03
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P.T. Barnum
Overview: This series illustrates the life and career of P.T. Barnum, America's greatest showman and promoter. Starting as a young man who managed an old woman who was supposedly George Washington's nursemaid, we see his career as he finds success promoting curiosities and attractions with panache and a judicious mix of truth and creativity, whether it be promoting his museum or characters like the midget General Tom Thumb. Yet because the demands of his businesses, his family life is troubled and marred by tragedy. All the while, events lead to his greatest creation, the Ringling Brothers/Barnum & Bailey Circus.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1999-09-12
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