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Dagon. (2001) Ezra Godden, Rancisco Rabal, Raquel Merono, Macarena Gomez, Brendan Price, Birgit Bofarull. Directed by Stuart Gordon. When a sudden storm grounds the boat of four wealthy tourists off the coast of Spain, injuring one of them, two of them seek help in the nearby fishing village of Imboca. But when they arrive, they discover that the village has been taken over by an evil cult that worships Dagon, a monstrous god of the sea. Based on an H. P. Lovecraft short story.
Categories: Horror, Science Fiction/Fantasy.
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MPAA Rating: R
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Dance of the Dead. (2008) Jared Kusnitz, Greyson Chadwick, Chandler Darby, Carissa Capobianco, Randy McDowell, Michael V. Mammoliti, Mark Lynch, Justin Welborn , Mark Oliver. Directed by Gregg Bishop. On the night of the big high school prom in a town surrounding by nuclear plants, the dead rise to eat the living, and the only people who can stop them are the losers who couldn't get dates to the dance and the crazy high school foottball coach.
Categories: Horror, Science Fiction/Fantasy.
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MPAA Rating: R
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D.A.R.Y.L. (1985) Barret Oliver, Mary Beth Hurt, Michael McKean, Kathryn Walker, Colleen Camp, Josef Sommer, Ron Frazier, Danny Corkill, Steve Ryan, Amy Linker, David Wohl. Directed by Simon Wincer. Barret Oliver stars as an extraordinarily gifted and talented Data Analyzing Robot Youth Lifeform created by a top secret Defense Department research project. With the help of one of his creators, Daryl escapes to a small town to live a normal life among regular people. But he is pursued by the military authorities, who want to cancel the program and destroy him.
Categories: Drama, Science Fiction, Family.
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MPAA Rating: PG
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The Dangerous Lives of Altar Boys. (2002) Kieran Culkin, Jena Malone, Emile Hirsch, Vincent D'Onofrio, Jodie Foster, Tyler Long, Jake Richardson. Directed by Peter Care. Tim and Francis, best friends attending a strict Catholic school, work hard to cause trouble without getting caught by Sister Assumpta, while writing up their exploits in a comic book they call The Atomic Trinity. While Tim plots the ultimate prank to cap off the school year, Francis begins to discover the opposite sex.
Categories: Drama, Coming of Age.
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MPAA Rating: R
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Dark Skies. (2013) Keri Russell, Josh Hamilton, Dakota Goyo, Kadan Rockett, J.K. Simmons. Written and directed by Scott Stewart. A series of disturbing paranormal events disrupts the lives of a young suburban family and leads them to realize that they are being stalked by aliens.
Categories: Horror, Science Fiction/Fantasy.
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MPAA Rating: PG-13
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Dazed and Confused. (1993) Jason London, Joey Laurn Adams, Milla Jovovich, Rory Cochrane, Anthony Rapp, Sasha Jenson, Jeremy Fox, Ben Affleck, Priscilla Kinsey, Matthew McConaughey. Directed by Richard Linklater. The class of 1976 at a Texas high school is about to graduate and looking forward to wild parties, and the traditional hazing of the incoming freshmen. The film explores friendships, romances, and the future status all of the groups -- the jocks, the stoners, the "in" crowd, the cheerleaders, and the hapless freshmen -- in one long day and night to remember.
Categories: Drama, Coming of Age, Teenagers.
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MPAA Rating: R
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Dead Calm. (1989) Sam Neill, Nicole Kidman, Billy Zane, Rod Mullinar, Joshua Tilden, George Shevtsov. Directed by Phillip Noyce. A couple on a solo cruise, recovering from the death of their son, run into a young man rowing away from another ship who seems to be the only survivor from a tragic incident of food poisoning but turns out to be a homicidal killer..
Categories: Action/Adventure, Drama.
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MPAA Rating: R
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Dead Man On Campus. (1998) Tom Everett Scott, Mark-Paul Gosselaar, Poppy Montgomery, Lochlyn Munro, Randy Pearlstein, Corey Page, Alyson Hannigan, Mari Morrow. Directed by Alan Cohn. Two unlikely freshmen roommates are in danger of flunking out due to excessive partying. But then they remember that an obscure clause in the college academic code automatically awards straight As to any students whose roommate commits suicide. So they set out to find a new roommate who is "likely to succeed."
Category: Comedy.
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MPAA Rating: R
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Dead Poets Society. (1989) Robin Williams, Ethan Hawke, Robert Sean Leonard, Josh Charles, Lara Flynn Boyle. Directed by Peter Weir. In the late 1950's, a free-thinking English teacher returns to the exclusive boys prep school where he was a student and brings his unusual teaching methods to his classes. Encouraged to "carpe diem" (seize the day), a group of his students reform the Dead Poet's Society, a secret forum where they can escape from the ridgid conformity of their academic life and discuss ideas freely.
Category: Drama, Coming of Age.
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MPAA Rating: PG
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Deadly Friend. (1986) Matthew Laborteaux, Kristy Swanson, Michael Sharrett, Anne Twomey, Anne Ramsey, Richard Marcus, Russ Marin, Lee Paul, Andrew Roperto, Charles Fleischer. Directed by Wes Craven. Paul Conway, 15-year-old whiz kid, implants a robotic brain into Samantha, the sweet girl next door, after she is put into a coma by her abusive father. But instead of recreating sweet Sam, she has become an unstoppable monster bent only on murder and destruction.
Category: Horror.
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MPAA Rating: R
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Death and Cremation. (2010) Brad Dourif, Jeremy Sumpter, Scott Elrod, Debbon Ayer. Written and directed by Justin Steele. Stan, the 59-year-old owner of the Stanley Crematory is a deranged psychopath who kills bullies and cremates their bodies. He forms an alliance with his new employee, fatherless outcast teenager Jarod Leary who is bullied at his high school by David Valentine and his gang.
Category: Thriller.
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MPAA Rating: R
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Death of a Superhero. (2012) Thomas Brody-Sangster, Andy Serkis, Lilli Forgach, Ian Fitzpatrick, Michael McElhatton, Sharon Horgan, Ronan Rafferty, Aisling Loftus. Directed by Ian Fitzgibbon. A dying 15-year-old boy draws stories of an invincible superhero as he struggles with his mortality.
Category: Drama.
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MPAA Rating: NR (would be PG-13)
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Deep Rising. (1998) Treat Williams, Famke Janssen, Anthony Heald, Kevin J. O'Connor, Wes Studi, Derrick O'Connor, Jason Flemyng. Written and directed by Stephen Sommers. A band of ruthless hijackers take over a boat for hire and then invade the world's most luxurious cruise ship, but are shocked to find that the wealthy passengers have vanished. However they are not alone, as a terrifying sea monster has also invaded the ship. A small group of survivors band together to try to escape the doomed cruise ship.
Categories: Drama, Horror, Adventure.
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MPAA Rating: R
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Dennis the Menace Strikes Again. (1998) (Made for Video) Justin Cooper, Heidi Swedberg, Dwier Brown, Betty White, Don Rickles, Brian Doyle-Murray, George Kennedy. Directed by Charles T. Kanganis. Dennis plays the usual tricks on his long suffering neighbor, Mr. Wilson, and then Dennis' youthful grandfather comes to town and competes with Wilson as well. But Dennis isn't the only one causing an uproar. Two con men try to swindle Mr. Wilson with a fountain of youth scheme leaving Dennis to rescue him and save the neighborhood.
Categories: Comedy, Family.
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MPAA Rating: G
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Desert Bloom. (1986) Anabeth Gish, Jon Voight, JoBeth Williams, Ellen Barkin, Jay Underwood. Directed by Eugene Corr. Set in 1950's Las Vegas at the start of underground testing in Nevada, this film is about a Rose, a young girl trying to find her way. Her family life is turbulent, with an unstable war veteran step-father who resents his acquired daughters, a mother who tries to hold the family by being compliant, and a sexy aunt who comes to stay with them after a divorce.
Categories: Drama, Coming of Age.
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MPAA Rating: PG
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Desperate Measures. (1997) Michael Keaton, Andy Garcia, Joseph Cross, Marcia Gay Harden, Brian Cox. Directed by Joseph Ruben. A police detective will do anything to find a compatible donor for his son who has leukemia. He is able to break into the FBI computer and finds a perfect match, but the person who matches turns out to be his worst nightmare, a ruthless killer imprisoned for murder.
Categories: Drama, Action/Adventure.
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MPAA Rating: PG-13
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Desperate Souls. (2005) Ryan Barrett, Pete Soltesz, Lisa Biffis, Karen Boshart, Nick Boshart, Lindsay Bridges, Adam Debuck, Buchanan Elliott, Matt Kowall. Written and directed by Chad Archibald and Phillip Carrer. A group of spiteful young orphans open up a window of evil Druid powers on the world, after being assisted by young Nick Randeen. When some unsuspecting teenagers stumble into the window and are possessed by the evil spirits, only Nick and one of their friends are around to try and stop them.
Category: Horror.
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ChucksConnection Rating: 
MPAA Rating: R
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Detroit Rock City. (1999) Edward Furlong, Sam Huntington, James DeBello, Giuseppe Andrews, Natasha Lyonne, Melanie Lynskey, Lin Shaye, Gene Simmons, Paul Stanley, Ace Frehley, Peter Criss, Cody Jones. Directed by Adam Rifkin. Four teenagers in a rock band overcome all kinds of obstacles to get to Detroit and see a KISS concert in this road movie set in 1978.
Categories: Comedy, Teenagers.
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MPAA Rating: R
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Deuces Wild. (2002) Stephen Dorff, Brad Renfro, Fairuza Balk, Matt Dillon, Frankie Muniz. Directed by Adam Rifkin. Film about two rival street gangs in 1950s Brooklyn who come to murderous blows when one gang tries to takeover the turf of the other.
Categories: Drama, Crime/Mystery.
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MPAA Rating: R
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Diamond's Edge. (1988) Colin Dale, Dorsley McClinden, Susannah York, Peter Eyre, Bill Paterson. Directed by Stephen Bayly. 13-year-old Nick Diamond continually saves the day for his older brother, Tim, a struggling and somewhat incompetent private eye, when he is asked to store a package for a client who is later murdered.
Categories: Comedy, Crime, Adventure.
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MPAA Rating: PG
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Diary of a Wimpy Kid. (2010) Zachary Gordon, Robert Capron, Rachael Harris, Steve Zahn. Directed by Rob Turner. Greg Heffley is headed for big things, but first he has to survive the scariest, most humiliting experience of any kid's life — middle school! Based on the best-selling book by Jeff Kinney.
Categories: Comedy, Family.
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MPAA Rating: PG
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Diary of a Wimpy Kid 2: Rodrick Rules. (2011) Zachary Gordon, Devon Bostick, Robert Capron, Rachael Harris, Steve Zahn. Directed by Rob Turner. Back in middle school after summer vacation, Greg Heffley and his older brother Rodrick must deal with their parents' misguided attempts to have them bond.
Categories: Comedy, Family.
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MPAA Rating: PG
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Diary of a Wimpy Kid 3: Dog Days. (2012) Zachary Gordon, Devon Bostick, Robert Capron, Rachael Harris, Steve Zahn. Directed by Rob Turner. School is out and Greg is ready for the days of summer, when all his plans go wrong. What on earth is he going to do all summer?
Categories: Comedy, Family.
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MPAA Rating: PG
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Digger. (1993) Timothy Bottoms, Olympia Dukakis, Adam Hann-Byrd, Joshua Jackson, Lochlyn Munro, Leslie Nielsen. Directed by Rob Turner. Young Digger spends the summer with relatives on a Pacific Northwest island community and learns about the troubled relationships in his family. He befriends Billy, a boy dying from leukemia who has a special connection with nature and learns about life, loyalty, and friendship in the process.
Categories: Family, Drama, Coming of Age.
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MPAA Rating: PG
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Dr. Alien. (1988) Billy Jacoby, Judy Landers, Olivia Barash, Stuart Fratkin, Raymond O'Connor, Arlene Golonka, Bobby Jacoby, Jim Hackett, Troy Donohue. Directed by David DeCoteau. A sexy biology professor from outer space gives a special potion to a nerdy freshman turning him into a stud that no woman on campus can resist.
Categories: Comedy, Romance, Sexually Explicit, Science Fiction.
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MPAA Rating: R
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Dodgeball: A True Underdog Story. (2004) Vince Vaughn, Ben Stiller, Christine Taylor, Rip Torn, Justin Long, Stephen Root, Joel Moore, Chris Williams, Alan Tudyk. Written and directed by Rawson Marshall Thurber. When a corporate fitness company tries to crush and foreclose on the Average Joe Gym, the regulars of the gym decide to enter the national dodgeball tournament to raise the money they need.
Categories: Comedy, Sports.
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MPAA Rating: PG-13
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Don't Be Afraid Of The Dark. (2010) Katie Holmes, Guy Pearce, Bailee Madison, Jack Thompson. Directed by Troy Nixey. While architect Alex Hurst and his new girlfriend Kim restore their Gothic Mansion's period interiors, Alex's young daughter Sally discovers an army of beady-eyed, sharp clawed monsters who live in the basement.
Categories: Horror, Thriller.
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ChucksConnection Rating:
MPAA Rating: R
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Don't Tell Mom the Babysitter's Dead. (1991) Christina Applegate, Joanna Cassidy, John Getz, Josh Charles, Keith Coogan. Directed by Stephen Herek. Three kids left in the care of a tyrannical babysitter when their mom must take a business trip to Australia are suddenly on their own when the sitter drops dead on the first night. They want their independence, but need money to live on if they are going to have the summer of their dreams. Luckily Sue Ellen, the oldest is able to fake her way into a demanding but well paying job at a clothing design company, which leads to all kinds of changes in her life and that of her sibllings.
Categories: Comedy, Coming of Age, Teenagers.
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MPAA Rating: PG-13
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Dopamine. (2003) John Livingston, Sabrina Lloyd, Bruno Campos, Reuben Grundy, Kathleen Antonia, Nicole Wilder, William Windom. Written and directed by Mark Decena. A computer programmer working on a virtual toy project has an on-again off-again romance with a young school teacher he meets while testing the toy in her classroom. Will their love for each other be able to survive their own personal baggage and unwillingness to make commitments?
Category: Drama, Romance.
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MPAA Rating: R
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Drake and Josh Go Hollywood - The Movie. (2006) Drake Bell, Josh Peck, Miranda Cosgrove, Jonathan Goldstein, Walter Nichols, Matt Newton, Nancy Sullivan, John J. York, Milo McCrary. Directed by Steven Hoefer. A feature film based on the Nickelodeon TV series about an Drake Parker, an aspiring rock musician and his step-brother, Josh Nichols, who wants to be his manager. When Josh and Drake accidentally put their younger sister on a flight to Los Angeles instead of Denver, they follow her there, manage to get booked into an MTV show, and run into a counterfeiting ring.
Categories: Comedy, Musical, Teenagers.
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MPAA Rating: NR, would be PG
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Dreamcatcher. (2003) Morgan Freeman, Damian Lewis, Thomas Jane, Jason Lee, Timothy Olyphant, Tom Sizemore, Donnie Wahlberg, Mike Holekamp, Reece Thompson, Giacomo Baessato, Joel Palmer, Andrew Robb, Jonathan Kasdan. Directed by Lawrence Kasdan. Four longtime friends, who have shared a psychic connection with each other since as youths they rescused a handicapped kid with special powers, get together for a camping trip in the Maine back country. Soon their good time is interrupted by eel-like alien forces trying to gain a foothold on earth and the government special forces unit sent to eradicate the aliens and anyone coming into contact with them.
Categories: Drama, Science Fiction, Horror.
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MPAA Rating: R
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Dreamscape. (1983) Dennis Quaid, Max Von Sydow, Christopher Plummer, Eddie Albert, Kate Capshaw, Cory "Bumper" Yothers, George Wendt. Directed by Joseph Ruben. A young psychic is able to enter and participate in other peoples dreams. But another person with evil intentions has also learned the secret, and soon the two are involved in a fantastic duel held in the world of people's dreams.
Categories: Drama, Science Fiction.
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MPAA Rating: PG-13
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The Dream Team. (1989) Michael Keaton, Peter Boyle, Christopher Lloyd, Dennis Boutsikaris, Lorraine Braco. Directed by Howard Zieff. Four mental patients go on a field trip to Yankee Stadium, but when their van has an accident, they are separated from their supervising doctor. The doctor accidentally stumbles into a crime committed by two crooked cops, who attack him and put him in the hospital leaving the four to fend for themselves and eventually try to rescue the doctor.
Category: Comedy.
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MPAA Rating: PG-13
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Drowning Mona. (2000) Jamie Lee Curtis, Bette Midler, Danny DeVito, Neve Campbell. Directed by Nick Gomez. An offbeat comedy about the murder of Mona Dearly in a small town. For years Mona manipulated people and drove them crazy, so nearly everyone she knew ends up being a suspect for the local police chief, including his daughter.
Categories: Comedy, Crime and Mystery.
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MPAA Rating: PG-13
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Duma. (2005) Alex Michaeletos, Eamonn Walker, Campbell Scott, Hope Davis. Directed by Carroll Ballard. An orphaned cheetah becomes the best friend and pet of Xan, a young boy living in South Africa. When family circumstances change, Xan undertakes a trek to return Duma to his natural habitat.
Categories: Action/Adventure, Family, Drama.
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MPAA Rating: PG
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The Dust Factory. (2004) Ryan Kelley, Hayden Panettiere, Armin Mueller-Stahl, Kim Myers, George De La Pena, Michael Angarano, Peter Horton. Written and directed by Eric Small. Ryan is a young teenager who has withdrawn into himself after seeing his father die. After a traumatic fall off a railroad trestle, Ryan finds himself in a realm between reality and immortality called the Dust Factory where people walk on water, determine their fate on a circus trapeze, and Ryan's grandfather, who has Alzheimer's disease is now lucid. He meets up with Melanie, another lost soul, and together they try to find the courage to return to the world of reality.
Categories: Drama, Coming of Age, Fantasy/Science Fiction.
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MPAA Rating: PG
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