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Genres:
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Action /
Adventure /
Fantasy
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Director:
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Guillermo del Toro
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Actors:
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Seth MacFarlane,
Brian Steele,
John Alexander,
Andrew Hefler,
Iván Kamarás,
Mike Kelly,
James Dodd,
Jeremy Zimmerman,
Ron Perlman,
Selma Blair,
Doug Jones,
Luke Goss,
Anna Walton,
Jeffrey Tambor,
John Hurt
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Duration:
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120 min.
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Rating:
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(7.4/10)115
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Plot Summary:
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After an ancient truce existing between humankind and the disguised realm of the fantastic is fractured, torment on Earth is ready to discharge. A unmerciful leader who treads the world above and the one under defies his bloodline and awakens an unstoppable army of creatures. Just now, it???s up to the planet???s toughest, roughest superhero to clash the merciless dictator and his marauders. He may be red. He may be horned. He may be misunderstood. But when you shortage the drudgery done right, it???s but to petition in Hellboy (Ron Perlman). Along with his expanding team in... the Bureau for Paranormal Research and Defense???pyrokinetic girlfriend Liz (Selma Blair), aquatic empath Abe (Doug Jones) and protoplasmic mystic Johann???the BPRD want travel between the surface strata and the unseen magical bromide, where creatures of illusion become corporeal. And Hellboy, a creature of two worlds who???s accepted by neither, requisite settle upon between the effervescence he knows and an unknown destiny that beckons him.
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