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Genres:
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Horror /
Mystery /
Thriller
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Director:
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David Koepp
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Actors:
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John Dunn-Hill,
Joan Heney,
Gillian Ferrabee,
Matt Holland,
Richard Jutras,
Elizabeth Marleau,
Kyle Allatt,
Johnny Depp,
John Turturro,
Maria Bello,
Timothy Hutton,
Charles S. Dutton,
Len Cariou,
Vlasta Vrana,
Bronwen Mantel
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Duration:
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96 min.
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Rating:
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(6.4/10)95.5
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Plot Summary:
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Mort Rainey, a pre-eminent author, is passing through a incontestable stretch in his life. After enticing his spouse sleeping with another gentleman's gentleman, they divorce and he moves away from the burgh to somewhere in the surroundings. One heyday a man appears at his door, presenting himself as John Shooter, and accuses Mort of copying a story from him. Although Mort believes things can be solved every now he shows Shooter the archetype version, which had appeared two years in the past Shooter's construct, written in 1997, while Rainey's was published in early 1995. He can't give every ... indication to be able to make do c leave an master replicate in the time limit set by Shooter. Unusual things then start happening that interdict him from receiving the needed original, and Mort tries to find out who Shooter indeed is and if he is answerable for the things that prepare been happening.
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