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CARGO 200

By | June 2008

2008 LOS ANGELES FILM FESTIVAL REVIEW! So if it’s such a boring film with only a few points of interest – why the fairly positive star rating? Well, I don’t know if this was intentional or not, but the movie made me laugh…

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