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JustAnotherGen

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7. I've only been able to watch

Reply to Hoyt (Reply #3)

Fri May 11, 2018, 08:30 AM

May 2018

the movie Amistad twice. Never again. It's up there with Schindler's list for me.

Excellent movies - but I can't take the mother going overboard with her tiny baby in Amistad - or the little kids hiding in the sewer in Schindler's list.

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