December 2012 Movies

Amy Renner Amy Renner

Jul. 26, 2018

Best Movies Released December 2012

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Assembles four perfect strangers to pull off the perfect crime. But when their botched robbery reveals a police informant among them, their simple robbery explodes into a bloody ambush.

Steve Buscemi, Quentin Tarantino, Tim Roth, Michael Madsen, Chris Penn

Thriller Crime Re-Release

56%

  • 3
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Set in the basking sun of L.A., the film follows a burger-loving hit man (John Travolta), his philosophical partner (Samuel L. Jackson), a drug-addled gangster's moll (Uma Thurman) and a washed-up boxer (Bruce Willis), as their four tales converge in a story of violence and redemption.

Samuel L. Jackson, Bruce Willis, Uma Thurman, Amanda Plummer, Ving Rhames, Quentin Tarantino, John Travolta, Tim Roth

R Thriller Crime Re-Release 2 hrs, 34 mins

64%

  • 4.7
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A father with a dubious past brought in to coach his son’s Little League baseball (or soccer) team.

Gerard Butler, Uma Thurman, Gabriele Muccino, Alan Siegel, Judy Greer, Catherine Zeta-Jones, Kevin Misher, Jonathan Mostow

PG-13 Comedy Romance Sports

59%

  • 3.2
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A gritty drama that follows the friendship between longtime LAPD partners.

Jake Gyllenhaal, Anna Kendrick, Michael Peña, America Ferrera, Frank Grillo, David Ayer, John Lesher, Natalie Martinez

R Drama Crime Gangster

74%

  • 4.4
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There’s nothing Ernie loves more than an excellent adventure, whether he’s zooming around town on his rocket-powered skateboard or stealing an early peek at the coolest new fossil exhibit at the Dinosaur Museum. It’s not always easy under the strict rule of his mom Sue (Jane Lynch) - especially with his sister Julia following him around and trying to get him into trouble every chance she gets - bu t he still manages to stir up some fun. One day, however, Ernie’s daredevil nature takes him on a journey with potentially irreversible consequences. After sneaking over to his best friend Max’s house, Ernie discovers Max’s dad’s latest invention: a sleek, egg-shaped time machine. Suddenly, Julia bursts in to bust the two boys, and in the ensuing chaos, the time machine whirs to life and closes its doors on the three arguing kids.

When the hydraulic doors hiss open, the kids find themselves in a lush jungle untouched by mankind, with a living, breathing T-Rex named Tyra (Melanie Griffith) standing over them. Tyra nuzzles them softly, and Ernie realizes that they’re not going to end up dinosaur food – they’re family! The egg-shaped time machine has landed in Tyra’s nest, and the she thinks the human children are hers, new siblings to her hyperactive dinosaur son Dodger (Rob Schneider).

Ernie’s ready to seize the opportunity to have his most incredible escapade yet – but there’s still the little problem of how to eventually get home, what with the time machine having lost a vital component in its crash landing. Throw in some creepy dinosaur rivals of Tyra’s (William Baldwin and Stephen Baldwin) who plan to take the time machine 'egg' to lure her into their lair, and the road back to the present is paved with obstacles. It’s going to take a lot of teamwork, and maybe even some surprising help from Sue, to reunite Ernie, Julia and Max with their human families and get them out of 'Dino Time.'

James Greco, Jane Lynch, William Baldwin, John Kafka, Yoon-suk Choi, Rob Schneider, Tara Strong, Melanie Griffith

PG Family Animation 3D

75%

  • 3.4
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This documentary follows skateboarding legend and action sports pioneer Danny Way on his journey to jump China’s Great Wall, and reveals the passion, grit, determination and psyche behind one of the world’s athletes.

Jacob Rosenberg, Max Leitman, Darryl Franklin, Hana Ripperger-Suhler, Bret Anthony Johnston, Crystal Ackley, Mike Blabc, Ken Block

Sports Documentary

19%

  • 1
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Los Angeles

Retired radio DJ, Rex Page (Ernest Borgnine), always dreamed of being a Western movie cowboy — After suffering a back injury, Rex finds himself recovering at Rancho Park nursing home, a facility held in the villainous grip of local businessman Mr. Walker (Barry Corbin) and his evil henchman, Dr. Dominguez (Tony Plana).

At first, Rex is helpless in this lawless world, but when the Latino staff realizes that Rex once met their icon, Vicente Fernandez, Rex becomes a local celebrity. And like the cowboys from his dreams, Rex discovers the love and respect of his family and the staff when he faces down the tyrannical owners of Rancho Park this homage to the Spaghetti Westerns of yore.

Elia Petridis, Ernest Borgnine

Comedy Family 1 hr, 39 mins

29%

  • 2.5
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With her life at a crossroads, 25 year old Sophie Conway returns home to the small town she always wanted to forget. Once home, she is faced with the friends and lovers she left behind, a tangled relationship with her Mother, and Harry Pleasant, an Alzheimer's Disease patient who, in an opposing way, shares Sophie's struggle to remember.

Kate Mara, Christine Lahti, Hal Holbrook, Gideon Raff, Derek Magyar, Jenny Hinkley, Alan Loayza, Tom Kuehl

R Drama

68%

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A woman falls into the world of professional gambling in Vegas, where she starts working as a cocktail waitress in hopes of making fast cash. Her gambling leads her to New York and the Caribbean, with gamblers soon becoming her second family. But when she falls in love, she had to re-evaluate her life.

Vince Vaughn, Stephen Frears, Rebecca Hall, Bruce Willis, Catherine Zeta-Jones, Frank Grillo, Peter Gethers, Anthony Bregman

R Drama Comedy 1 hr, 40 mins

76%

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Volunteers race against the clock to fly thousands of WWII veterans to Washington, DC to see the memorial constructed for them in 2005, nearly 60 years after the War. The trips are called "Honor Flights" and for the veterans, who are in their late 80s and early 90s, it's often the first time they've been thanked and the last trip of their lives.

The 24-hour journey is full of surprises that deep ly move all who are involved. It’s uncommon for World War II veterans to talk about the War, but the Honor Flight experience brings their stories out. Many veterans say, with the exception of their wedding day and the birth of their children, the trip is the best day of their life.

Dan Hayes

PG War Documentary

50%

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Two desperate sibling fugitives on the run collide with the holiday homecoming of a troubled ex-boxer.

Charlie Hunnam, Stefan Ruzowitzky, Olivia Wilde, Gary Levinsohn, Shelly Clippard, Todd Wagner, Zach Dean, Eric Bana

R Thriller Crime

41%

  • 2.4
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Gifted with incredible athletic talent, Brazilian-born Heleno de Freitas conquered the soccer world in the 1940s. As his fame and fortune grew to new heights, his passion for a decadent life of women and nightclubs would threaten his career.

Jose Henrique Fonseca, Rodrigo Santoro, Angie Cepeda, Aline Moraes

R Drama Biography 1 hr, 56 mins

22%

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Only the Young is the story of the children that inhabit a small desert town in Southern California – a town dominated by foreclosed homes and underpasses, unfilled swimming pools and skate parks. The three teenagers of focus must find things to do in a place that offers nothing – but in observing their day-to-day lives, we see them discover friendship, first love, heartbreak, and what it means to be young.

Elizabeth Mims

NR Documentary 1 hr, 10 mins

47%

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Set in 1939 and follows the weekend visit of King George VI and Queen Elizabeth to President Roosevelt's upstate New York home, called Hyde Park on Hudson. Over the course of the visit, details of FDR's private life begin to unfold, including his affair with his distant cousin Daisy.

Roger Michell, Bill Murray, Olivia Williams, Kevin Loader, David Aukin, Richard Nelson, Laura Linney, Olivia Colman

R Drama Historical

38%

  • 4.1
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With The Fitzgerald Family Christmas, Ed Burns returns to the working-class, Irish-American roots of The Brothers McMullen. Reuniting with McMullen co-stars Connie Britton, and Mike McGlone, along with Noah Emmerich and Kerry Bishe, Burns weaves an ensemble story of adult siblings dealing with the desire of their estranged father (Ed Lauter) to return home for Christmas for the first time since he walked out on his family 20 years ago. Family rifts emerge, and like with any family, Christmas brings a mixed bag of complicated emotions and dynamics. Alliances form, old wounds are reopened or glossed over, and the possibility for a new hope and forgiveness emerges.

Edward Burns, Kerry Bishé, Connie Britton, Heather Burns, Dara Coleman

PG-13 Drama Comedy Holiday 1 hr, 43 mins

56%

  • 3
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A portrait of two couples at a crossroads. What was supposed to be a romantic getaway for two young lovers, turns into an uncomfortable confrontation when the young man's estranged father shows up ... with his own girlfriend. As their collisions mount, the weekend transforms into a major turning point for each of them.

Brian Savelson, Jena Malone, Gabrielle Union, Zach Gilford, John Slattery

Drama

23%

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Six private school high school kids find themselves stuck in detention on a frightfully dark and stormy Saturday afternoon. During their 8 hour incarceration, each of the six kids falls victim to a horrible "accident" until only one of them remains. And as each of these spoiled rich kids bites the dust, the story takes on a series of humorous and frantic twists and turns. Is one of the kids secretly evening the school's social playing field? Or have the ghosts of prestigious Crestview Academy finally come to punish the school's worst (and seemingly untouchable) brats? One thing is for sure...Daddy's money can't save them now.

Matthew Spradlin, Barry Wernick, Amanda Alch, Marc Donato, Augie Duke, Roger Edwards, Ali Faulkner, Cameron Deane Stewart

R Comedy Thriller Mystery 1 hr, 31 mins

51%

  • 3.7
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Delhi Safari is the story of a journey undertaken by a cub leopard Yuvi, his mother Begam (Vanessa Williams), a monkey Barjrangi, Bagga (Brad Garrett) the lovable bear and Alex the parrot when the forest they live in is on the verge of destruction. Along the way they meet a motley crew of jungle friends from the Bee Commander (Cary Elwes), the Pigeon (Christopher Lloyd), to the singing Flamingos (Jane Lynch and Jason Alexander). Their mission is simple, once in Delhi they will ask the government some very simple questions - why has man become the most dangerous animal? Doesn't man understand that if the forests and the animals don't exist, man will cease to exist?

Nikhil Advani, Jane Lynch, Vanessa Williams, Jason Alexander, Cary Elwes, Brad Garrett, Christopher Lloyd

PG Comedy Animation 3D

77%

  • 2.7
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England, 1932. Today is Dolly Thatcham's wedding day, and her family is arriving at the manor house with all the cheerfulness, chaos and grievances that bubble to the surface at such gatherings. Trouble soon appears in the shape of Joseph, Dolly's lover from the previous summer, who throws her feelings into turmoil. Dolly's mother will not allow her carefully laid plans for her daughter's future to be threatened, and as the clock ticks the bride can't decide whether to run away with Joseph or start a new life in Argentina with her husband-to-be.

Felicity Jones, Luke Treadaway, Zoe Tapper, Donald Rice, James Norton, Elizabeth McGovern, Julian Wadham, Mackenzie Crook

PG Drama Comedy Adaptation 1 hr, 33 mins

40%

  • 2.3
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The story centers on Hobbit Bilbo Baggins and the scary adventure he makes with thirteen dwarves.

James Nesbitt, Guillermo del Toro, Mark Hadlow, Peter Jackson, Ian McKellen, Andy Serkis, Graham McTavish, Stephen Hunter

PG-13 Drama Adventure Fantasy Prequel 3D Shot-In-3D 2 hrs, 50 mins

82%

  • 4.5
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Chronicles how a generation of artists, thinkers, and activists channeled their creativity into an organized response and resistance to the reactionary politics that increasingly defined American culture in the 1980s.

Antonino D'Ambrosio

Documentary

14%

  • 2.5
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Sarah begins to confront her shortcomings after she rejects her boyfriend's hasty proposal and soon finds herself in a rebound romance. Meanwhile, her sister Beth is immersed in the details of her wedding.

Lizzy Caplan, Neal H. Moritz, Jeffrey Brown, Alison Brie, Mike Mohan, Egan Reich, Martin Starr, Geoffrey Arend

R Comedy Romance 1 hr, 38 mins

48%

  • 3
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When a teenager with Down syndrome is abandoned by his mother, a gay couple (Alan Cumming and Garret Dillahunt) takes him in and becomes the loving family he's never had. But when their unconventional living arrangement is discovered by authorities, the men are forced to fight a biased legal system to save the life of the child they have come to love as their own.

Gregg Henry, Travis Fine, Alan Cumming, Garret Dillahunt, Isaac Leyva, Frances Fisher

R Drama LGBTQIA+

55%

  • 2.7
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England, 1932. Today is Dolly Thatcham's wedding day, and her family is arriving at the manor house with all the cheerfulness, chaos and grievances that bubble to the surface at such gatherings. Trouble soon appears in the shape of Joseph, Dolly's lover from the previous summer, who throws her feelings into turmoil. Dolly's mother will not allow her carefully laid plans for her daughter's future to be threatened, and as the clock ticks the bride can't decide whether to run away with Joseph or start a new life in Argentina with her husband-to-be.

Felicity Jones, Luke Treadaway, Zoe Tapper, Donald Rice, James Norton, Elizabeth McGovern, Julian Wadham, Mackenzie Crook

PG Drama Comedy Adaptation 1 hr, 33 mins

40%

  • 2.3
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An inventor and his mom hit the road together so he can sell his latest invention.

Seth Rogen, Adam Scott, Anne Fletcher, Lorne Michaels, John Goldwyn, Evan Goldberg, Dan Fogelman, Barbra Streisand

PG-13 Comedy 1 hr, 35 mins

66%

  • 3.6
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A comedy set in a surreal realm, where chaos ensues after a hapless monster lets a human child into the secret world by mistake.

Billy Crystal, Steve Buscemi, Pete Docter, David Silverman, Jill Culton, Jeff Pidgeon, John Goodman, Mary Gibbs

G Comedy Family Kids Animation

86%

  • 4.7
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New York / Los Angeles

A U.S. military black ops mission causes ramifications which are felt around the world.

Joel Edgerton, Jessica Chastain, Mark Strong, Chris Pratt, Nash Edgerton, Megan Ellison, Kathryn Bigelow, Mark Boal

R Drama War Thriller 2 hrs, 40 mins

56%

  • 3.9
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In the film, Georges (Jean-Louis Trintignant) and Anne (Emmanuelle Riva) are in their 80's. They are cultivated, retired music teachers. Their daughter (Isabelle Huppert), who is also a musician, lives abroad with her family. One day, Anne has an attack. The couple's bond of love is severely tested.

Isabelle Huppert, Michael Haneke, Jean-Louis Trintignant, Emmanuelle Riva

PG-13 Drama

21%

  • 3.7
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A homicide investigator seeks the truth behind what seems an open-and-shut murder case after a trained military sniper is arrested for shooting five random victims.

Christopher McQuarrie, Don Granger, Dana Goldberg, Tom Cruise, Rosamund Pike, David Oyelowo, Richard Jenkins, Werner Herzog

PG-13 Drama Suspense Adaptation Mystery

51%

  • 3.9
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A spin-off of Knocked Up that focuses on Pete and Debbie, who where played by Paul Rudd and Leslie Mann. Additional plot details are unavailable.

Paul Rudd, Leslie Mann, Annie Mumolo, Albert Brooks, Melissa McCarthy, Ryan Lee, Robert Smigel, Judd Apatow

R Comedy

75%

  • 3
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Based on the true story of events that occurred following the 2004 tsunami in Thailand.

Naomi Watts, Ewan McGregor, Geraldine Chaplin, Tom Hollander, Juan Antonio Bayona, Sergio G. Sanchez, Marta Etura

PG-13 Drama Action True Story

72%

  • 4.2
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Set on the East Coast during the 1960s, a coming of age story that follows the lives of Douglas, Wells and Ronny, members of a young rock n’ roll band trying to make it.

Jack Huston, John Magaro, James Gandolfini, David Chase, Mark Johnson, Will Brill, Bella Heathcote, Lisa Lampanelli

R Drama Music

57%

  • 3.4
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East Germany, 1980. Barbara is a talented young doctor who has applied for an exit visa from the GDR and, as punishment, has been transferred from her prestigious post in Berlin to a small pediatric hospital in the country. Even though she is constantly aware of the very real shadowy presence of, and overwhelming numbers of, Stasi officers chronicling her every move, every waking hour, she arrives at her new post having already planned a series of dangerous assignations with her lover, with whom she plans to escape to the West, to Poland.

Christian Petzold, Nina Hoss, Ronald Zehrfeld, Rainer Bock

PG-13 1 hr, 45 mins

29%

  • 3.4
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Recounts Jack Kerouac's defining hitchhiking journey across the U.S. with Neal Cassady.

Kirsten Dunst, Kristen Stewart, Sam Riley, Jose Rivera, Amy Adams, Garrett Hedlund, Walter Salles, Nathanaël Karmitz

R Drama Adaptation

52%

  • 2.5
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Inspired by the unique creative universe of Cirque du Soleil. The film is based on the following premise: "There are worlds beyond dreams, illusion and imagination, where human beings are capable of anything. Where love rules, and everything your heart yearns for is beautifully, incredibly real."

Andrew Adamson, Aron Warner, James Cameron, Erica Linz, Matt Gillanders, Jason Berrent, Lutz Halbhubner

PG Fantasy 3D Shot-In-3D Based on Play

75%

  • 3.9
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Django is a freed slave, who, under the tutelage of a German bounty hunter, becomes a bad-ass bounty hunter himself. After taking down some bad guys for profit, they track down Django's slave wife and liberate her from an evil plantation owner.

Leonardo DiCaprio, Samuel L. Jackson, Christoph Waltz, Don Johnson, Stacey Sher, Pilar Savone, James Remar, Quentin Tarantino

Drama Western 2 hrs, 21 mins

62%

  • 4.2
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A film adaptation of the popular stage play, which chronicles the lives of five characters through nearly two decades in France. Ex-con Jean Valjean tries to outrun his relentless pursuer Javert.

Amanda Seyfried, Liza Chasin, Eddie Redmayne, Sacha Baron Cohen, Debra Hayward, Russell Crowe, Tom Hooper, Cameron Mackintosh

PG-13 Adaptation Musical Based on Play 2 hrs, 39 mins

64%

  • 4.4
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Billy Crystal will play a grandfather forced to take care of his three grandchildren by the 21st century rules of his daughter, their mother, who has gone on a weeklong work vacation. In the process, he is confronted with what seems to him an absurd world of negotiating with kids, Little League games where everyone gets a hit, tailored meals and "feelings." Ultimately, he reverts to an old-school-justice style of discipline.

Billy Crystal, Dylan Clark, Peter Chernin, Lowell Ganz, Tom Everett Scott, Babaloo Mandel, Bailee Madison, Bette Midler

PG Drama Comedy Family

82%

  • 3.8
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Starting with a searing examination of the police investigation into the 1993 murders of three, eight year old boys Christopher Byers, Steven Branch and Michael Moore in the small town of West Memphis, Arkansas, the film reveals the story from the inside. West of Memphis uncovers new evidence surrounding the arrest and conviction of the other three victims of this shocking crime – Damien Echols, Jason Baldwin and Jessie Misskelley; all three of whom were teenagers at the time of their arrests and all three of whom were imprisoned for crimes they did not commit.

Peter Jackson, Ken Kamins, Amy Berg, Damien Echols, Fran Walsh

Documentary

61%

  • 3
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A two-part tale centered on Aurora, shown first as an impulsive, cantankerous elderly woman in present-day Lisbon. When Aurora is hospitalized, she sends her neighbor, Pilar, to pass word of her grave condition to Gian Luca, a man of which no one has ever heard her speak. Pilar’s quest to fulfill her friend’s wish transports us to Africa fifty years earlier, before the start of the Portuguese Colonial War. We see Aurora again, this time as the gorgeous, smoldering wife of a wealthy young farmer, involved in a forbidden love affair with Gian Luca, her husband’s best friend.

Miguel Gomes, Teresa Madruga, Laura Soveral, Ana Moreira

Drama

43%

  • 3.4
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The story of three elderly, former opera-singers living in a retirement home for musicians, who suddenly find themselves invited to a "reunion event."

Ronald Harwood, Dustin Hoffman, Stewart Mackinnon, Maggie Smith, Tom Courtenay, Billy Connolly, Michael Gambon

PG-13 Drama Comedy Music 1 hr, 38 mins

66%

  • 3.7
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New York / Los Angeles

A sales executive arrives in a small town only to have his whole life called into question.

John Krasinski, Gus Van Sant, Dave Eggers, Rosemarie DeWitt, Chris Moore, Matt Damon, Scoot McNairy, Frances McDormand

R Drama

68%

  • 3.1
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Top December 2012 Movie Trailers

Zero Dark Thirty Theatrical Trailer #1
Jack Reacher Theatrical Trailer
Promised Land Theatrical Trailer
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