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15,551 | [
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15,552 | [
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15,556 | [
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15,565 | [
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15,569 | [
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15,575 | [
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15,576 | [
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15,579 | [
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15,608 | [
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15,609 | [
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15,610 | [
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15,611 | [
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15,615 | [
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15,628 | [
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15,658 | [
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15,664 | [
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15,671 | [
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15,673 | [
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15,698 | [
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15,708 | [
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15,709 | [
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15,711 | [
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15,712 | [
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15,716 | [
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15,717 | [
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15,737 | [
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15,739 | [
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15,746 | [
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15,758 | [
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15,770 | [
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15,774 | [
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15,780 | [
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15,830 | [
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15,836 | [
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15,842 | [
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15,846 | [
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15,852 | [
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15,858 | [
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15,862 | [
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15,872 | [
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15,903 | [
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15,906 | [
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15,914 | [
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15,924 | [
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15,928 | [
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15,931 | [
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15,945 | [
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15,950 | [
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15,968 | [
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15,976 | [
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15,979 | [
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16,016 | [
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16,024 | [
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16,037 | [
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16,055 | [
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16,056 | [
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16,059 | [
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16,061 | [
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16,084 | [
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16,089 | [
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16,090 | [
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16,097 | [
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16,108 | [
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16,114 | [
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16,137 | [
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16,145 | [
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16,153 | [
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16,160 | [
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16,164 | [
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16,171 | [
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16,183 | [
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16,186 | [
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16,192 | [
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16,218 | [
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16,219 | [
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16,230 | [
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16,239 | [
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16,257 | [
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16,261 | [
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16,267 | [
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] | 257 | 319 | Chaplin is a doughboy in his final film of 1918, a doughboy who can not seem to get the marching down straight. He spends time "over there" in World War One trenches. Several gags stand out: Limburger cheese as a makeshift grenade for one. The cramped quarters of the barracks in the trenches and when Chaplin and his ma... | 1 |
16,282 | [
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] | 262 | 365 | Uproarious no-brainer comedy in which comedian Mark Blankfield portrays Jekyll as an uptight doctor deeply committed to his research. Once he's snorted his experimental formula, he's turned into the scenery-devouring Hyde, causing no end of problems for everybody around him.<br /><br />I was pleasantly surprised by thi... | 1 |
16,288 | [
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] | 231 | 325 | I love this movie a lot. I must get this on DVD. I have 2 VHS copies, but the quality is so poor that you can't read one written joke over the door of the ward. I'm forever amazed that Blankfield did almost nothing afterward. He made both Dr. Jeckle and Mr. Hyde totally believable.<br /><br />The movie is plagued by it... | 1 |
16,325 | [
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16,331 | [
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] | 296 | 356 | Belonging to the subgenre of post-apocalyptic future films, it is a stylistic and very very intimate installment. The most noticed element of the film is its silence; no one speaks. I don't think Besson, despite what is evident in most of his later work, meant it as any kind of cool gimmick. I think what makes it so cl... | 1 |
16,335 | [
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16,361 | [
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16,371 | [
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16,373 | [
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16,380 | [
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16,383 | [
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16,392 | [
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16,395 | [
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16,419 | [
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16,425 | [
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16,429 | [
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16,438 | [
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16,441 | [
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16,451 | [
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16,455 | [
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