Gene Hackman
Birthday: 1930-01-30
Place of Birth: San Bernardino, California, USA
Biography: Eugene Allen Hackman (January 30, 1930 – c. February 18, 2025) was an American actor. Hackman made his credited film debut in the drama Lilith (1964). He later won two Academy Awards, his first for Best Actor for his role as Jimmy "Popeye" Doyle in William Friedkin's action thriller The French Connection (1971) and his second for Best Supporting Actor for playing a sheriff in Clint Eastwood's Western Unforgiven (1992). He was Oscar-nominated for playing Buck Barrow in the crime drama Bonnie and Clyde (1967), a college professor in the drama I Never Sang for My Father (1970), and an FBI agent in the historical drama Mississippi Burning (1988).
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Unforgiven
William Munny is a retired, once-ruthless killer turned gentle widower and hog farmer. To help suppo...
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Absolute Power
A master thief coincidentally is robbing a house where a murder—in which the President of the United...
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Bonnie and Clyde
In the 1930s, bored European-American waitress Bonnie Parker falls in love with a European-American ...
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The French Connection
Tough narcotics detective 'Popeye' Doyle is in hot pursuit of a suave French drug dealer who may be ...
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The Poseidon Adventure
When their ocean liner capsizes, a group of passengers struggle to survive and escape....
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The Conversation
A paranoid, secretive surveillance expert has a crisis of conscience when he suspects that the coupl...
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Mississippi Burning
Two FBI agents investigating the murder of civil rights workers during the 60s seek to breach the co...
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Young Frankenstein
A young neurosurgeon inherits the castle of his grandfather, the famous Dr. Victor von Frankenstein....
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Under Suspicion
A lawyer is asked to come to the police station to clear up a few loose ends in his witness report o...
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No Way Out
Navy Lt. Tom Farrell meets a young woman, Susan Atwell , and they share a passionate fling. Farrell ...
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Superman
Mild-mannered Clark Kent works as a reporter at the Daily Planet alongside his crush, Lois Lane. Cla...
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The Replacements
Maverick old-guard coach Jimmy McGinty is hired in the wake of a players' strike to help the Washing...
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French Connection II
"Popeye" Doyle travels to Marseilles to find Alain Charnier, the drug smuggler that eluded him in Ne...
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Heartbreakers
Max and Page are a brilliant mother/daughter con team who have their grift down to a fine science. M...
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The Birdcage
A gay cabaret owner and his drag queen partner agree to put up a false heterosexual front so that th...
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Heist
Joe Moore has a job he loves. He's a thief. His job goes sour when he gets caught on security camera...
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A Bridge Too Far
The story of Operation Market Garden—a failed attempt by the allies in the latter stages of WWII to ...
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Hoosiers
Failed college coach Norman Dale gets a chance at redemption when he is hired to coach a high school...
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Extreme Measures
Guy Luthan, a British doctor working at a hospital in New York, starts making unwelcome enquiries wh...
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Superman IV: The Quest for Peace
With global superpowers engaged in an increasingly hostile arms race, Superman leads a crusade to ri...
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The Mexican
Jerry Welbach, a reluctant bagman, has been given two ultimatums: The first is from his mob boss to ...
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Runaway Jury
After a workplace shooting in New Orleans, a trial against the gun manufacturer pits lawyer Wendell ...
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Postcards from the Edge
A substance-addicted actress tries to look on the bright side even as she's forced to move back in w...
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Another Woman
Marion is a woman who has learned to shield herself from her emotions. She rents an apartment to wor...
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Scarecrow
Two drifters bum around, visit earthy women and discuss opening a car wash in Pittsburgh....
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Behind Enemy Lines
While flying a routine reconnaissance mission over Bosnia, fighter pilot Lt. Chris Burnett photograp...
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Target
A Texan with a secret past searches Europe with his son after the KGB kidnaps his wife....
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Narrow Margin
An L.A. District Attorney attempts to take an unwilling murder witness back to the United States to ...
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The Chamber
Idealistic young attorney Adam Hall takes on the death row clemency case of his racist grandfather, ...
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Get Shorty
Chili Palmer is a Miami mobster who gets sent to L.A. to collect a bad debt from Harry Zimm, a Holly...
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The Package
Experienced Green Beret sergeant Johnny Gallagher is escorting a prisoner, Airborne Ranger Thomas Bo...
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Superman II
Three Kryptonian criminals led by General Zod team up with Lex Luthor to conquer Earth, forcing a de...
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Loose Cannons
Mac, the two-fisted, savvy cop finds that he's being saddled with a new partner, a known burnout, to...
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The Domino Principle
Roy Tucker, a Vietnam war veteran with excellent shooting skills, is serving a long prison sentence ...
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Night Moves
Private detective and former football player Harry Moseby gets hired on to what seems a standard mis...
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The Quick and the Dead
A mysterious woman comes to compete in a quick-draw elimination tournament, in a town taken over by ...
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Company Business
An aging agent is called back by "the Company" to run a hostage trade of a Soviet spy for an America...
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Wyatt Earp
From Wichita to Dodge City, to the O.K. Corral in Tombstone, Wyatt Earp is taught that nothing matte...
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March or Die
Just after World War I, Major Foster is incorporating new recruits into his French Foreign Legion pl...
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Crimson Tide
After the Cold War, a breakaway Russian republic with nuclear warheads becomes a possible worldwide ...
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Antz
A neurotic worker ant in love with a rebellious princess rises to unlikely stardom when he switches ...
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The Royal Tenenbaums
Royal Tenenbaum and his wife Etheline had three children and then they separated. All three children...
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Twilight
A retired detective accepts a simple task, unaware that it will tear open old, forgotten, but deadly...
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Downhill Racer
An ambitious young skier, determined to break all existing records, is contemptuous of the teamwork ...
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Bite the Bullet
At the beginning of the 20th century, a newspaper organizes an endurance horse race : 700 miles to r...
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Enemy of the State
When the videotape of the murder of a congressman unknowingly ends up in the hands of labor lawyer a...
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Uncommon Valor
A group of Vietnam War veterans re-unite to rescue one of their own left behind and taken prisoner b...
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Under Fire
Three U.S. journalists get too close to one another and their work in 1979 Nicaragua....
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Prime Cut
A group of ruthless Chicago mob enforcers are sent to Kansas City to settle things with the owner of...
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Marooned
After spending several months in an orbiting lab, three astronauts prepare to return to Earth only t...
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Geronimo: An American Legend
The Apache Indians have reluctantly agreed to settle on a US Government approved reservation. Not al...
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Full Moon in Blue Water
Floyd, the owner of a bar on the Texas coast, has been depressed for a year after his wife disappear...
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Hawaii
Abner Hale, a rigid and humorless New England missionary, marries the beautiful Jerusha Bromley and ...
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Lilith
Vincent Bruce, a war veteran, begins working as an occupational therapist at Poplar Lodge, a private...
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Bat★21
Lt. Col. Iceal "Ham" Hambleton is a weapons countermeasures expert and when his aircraft is shot ove...
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The Firm
Mitch McDeere is a young man with a promising future in Law. About to sit his Bar exam, he is approa...
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Class Action
A liberal activist lawyer alienated his daughter Maggie years ago when she discovered his many affai...
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Eureka
After striking it rich on a large gold strike, a prospector retires to the quiet life on a Caribbean...
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The Hunting Party
A ruthless rancher, and his gang, use extremely long range rifles to kill the men who kidnapped his ...
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The Gypsy Moths
Three skydivers and their travelling thrill show barnstorm through a small midwestern town one Fourt...
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Welcome to Mooseport
A US president who has retired after two terms in office returns to his hometown of Mooseport, Maine...
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Power
Pete St. John is a powerful and successful political consultant, with clients spread around the coun...
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Reds
An account of the revolutionary years of the legendary American journalist John Reed, who shared his...
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Misunderstood
A workaholic father becomes sole parent to his two young sons, and finds it hard to relate to them, ...
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Cisco Pike
A down on his luck former drug dealer is forced by a corrupt LAPD policeman to sell 100 kilos of con...
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I Never Sang for My Father
Hackman plays a New York professor who wants a change in his life, and plans to get married to his g...
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Split Decisions
When a boxer is killed because he wouldn't take a dive, his brother tries to find a way to avenge hi...
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Riot
A riot in a state prison is staged to cover up an escape attempt, during which many inmates and guar...
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With the Filmmaker: Wes Anderson
TV documentary about American film director Wes Anderson....
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Lucky Lady
When an American booze smuggler gets murdered in Prohibition-era Mexico, his widow, a nightclub sing...
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Zandy's Bride
Zandy Allan purchases a mail-order bride, Hannah Lund. He treats her as a possession, without respec...
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Imaginary Witness: Hollywood and the Holocaust
Daniel Anker’s 90-minute documentary takes on over 60 years of a very complex subject: Hollywood’s c...
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Twice in a Lifetime
A middle-aged steelworker is content with his job and his family, but feels that something is missin...
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All Night Long
Executive George Dupler loses his temper and is demoted to the night manager at a 24 hour drugstore....
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Revolution! The Making of 'Bonnie and Clyde'
The making-of documentary of Bonnie and Clyde....
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Shurtleff on Acting
A feature length documentary on legendary acting guru, casting agent and author, Michael Shurtleff. ...
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Doctors' Wives
The wives of several high-powered doctors feel neglected due to their husbands' focus on their caree...
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Once Upon a Time: The Super Heroes
The historical saga of American superheroes. Born in the period between the Great Depression and the...
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A Covenant with Death
An innocent man is found guilty of murder and sentenced to death, but as he's about to be hanged he ...
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Sports on the Silver Screen
HBO (in association with the American Film Institute) presents this 1997 anthology, narrated by Liev...
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Heroes of Iwo Jima
This heartrending documentary tells the story behind the most famous war photograph ever taken....
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Sacheen: Breaking the Silence
Revisiting the achievements of Sacheen Littlefeather, the first woman of color to utilize the Academ...
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Pattern Recognition
To celebrate the BFI's Thriller season, filmmaker Daniel Cockburn explores the power of sound to ter...
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The Sky Divers
A behind-the-scenes, promotional short about the making of the feature film The Gypsy Moths (1969), ...
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First to Fight
Jack is the sole survivor of a Japanese attack on his squad at Guadalcanal. Because of his heroism a...
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Making the Connection: Untold Stories of The French Connection
The exciting story of the making of William Friedkin's The French Connection (1971), hosted by forme...
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Eastwood Directs: The Untold Story
With a focus on Clint Eastwood's career as a director, this documentary features movie clips, behind...
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Clint Eastwood: Out of the Shadows
Hollywood careers are full of make-or-break moments. For Clint Eastwood, one such moment came when s...
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Banning
A playboy golf pro, kicked off the circuit for alleged cheating, is forced to hustle for a living....
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Shadow on the Land
Patriotic freedom fighters struggle against a fascist dictatorship in a near-future USA....
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I Knew It Was You: Rediscovering John Cazale
John Cazale was in only five films – The Godfather, The Conversation, The Godfather: Part II, Dog Da...
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Hitchcock, Selznick and the End of Hollywood
Paying homage to two of Hollywood's central icons, the film creates an unparalleled portrait of two ...
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Taking Flight: The Development of 'Superman'
Marc McClure presents a documentary on the making of 'Superman' (1978)....
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The Making of 'Superman: The Movie'
Ernie Anderson narrates this look at the making of Richard Donner's blockbuster 1978 film. Behind-th...
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Making 'Superman': Filming the Legend
Documentary on the making of the 1978 film 'Superman.'...
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Page to Screen: 'The Silence of the Lambs'
Documentary about the adaptation of the 1988 novel by Thomas Harris into the 1991 film directed by J...
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Mad Dog Coll
Killer Vincent "Mad Dog" Coll moves in on gangster Dutch Schultz in 1920s New York....
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We, the Marines
We, the Marines takes viewers on an action-packed adventure into the unparalleled experience of beco...
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Shipibo Konibo: A Rite of Passage
In Peruvian Amazonia, for the first time in many years, a Shipibo–Konibo community prepare to perfor...
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Formula 1 - Speed fever
Interspersed with interviews that the actress Sydne Rome gives to some of the most famous "Formula 1...
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Superman II: The Richard Donner Cut
Superman agrees to sacrifice his powers to start a relationship with Lois Lane, unaware that three K...
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Earth and the American Dream
A beautiful and disturbing film recounts America’s story from the environment’s point of view. From ...
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All on Accounta Pullin' a Trigger
10th Anniversary documentary looking back at Unforgiven (1992)...
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Making Frankensense of Young Frankenstein
Via reminiscences from writer/actor Gene Wilder and others, this documentary recalls the making of t...
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Two of a Kind
God has had enough of the bad behavior and attitude of humankind, and has decided to start it all ov...
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Clint Eastwood: The Man from Malpaso
A look at the life and career of actor/director Clint Eastwood, including scenes from his past film ...
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The Poughkeepsie Shuffle: Tracing 'The French Connection'
A documentary on the production of The French Connection (1971)....
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Quentin Tarantino: From a Movie Buff to a Hollywood Legend
Who has ever compared Reservoir Dogs? What are “Open Road” and “New World Disorder”? Why is Harvey K...
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Will Shuster's Zozobra™ de Santa Fe
This hour-long program, presented by the Kiwanis Club of Santa Fe and Santa Fe Downtown Kiwanis Foun...
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The Making of 'Crimson Tide'
This documentary provides viewers with a behind-the-scenes look at the making of this high-tension t...
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The Unknown Flag Raiser of Iwo Jima
In February 1945, Associated Press photographer Joe Rosenthal captured the image of five U.S. Marine...
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The Last Days of Gene Hackman: ABC News Special
A look at the mysterious, final weeks of Gene Hackman's life and their aftermath. How did the Hollyw...
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Electric Boogaloo: The Wild, Untold Story of Cannon Films
A documentary about the rise and fall of the Cannon Film Group, the legendary independent film compa...
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Breakdown: 1975
In 1975, as America faced social and political upheaval, filmmakers turned chaos into art....
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Superman Redeemed
One of the most legendary Fan Edits of all time by ADigitalMan, Superman Redeemed presents a hybrid ...
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