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Here Today and Pig
Here Today (Country: US; Year: 2021; Director: Billy Crystal; Writer: Alan Zweibel, Billy Crystal; Stars: Billy Crystal, Chad Jennings, Dierdre Friel, Alex Brightman, Matthew Broussard, Max Gordon Moore, Susan Pourfar, Gianmarco Soresi, Sarah Stiles, Joanna Adler, Justin Linville, Brandon Uranowitz, Andrew Durand, Tiffany Haddish, Zuhdi Boueri)
Tale of the unlikely friendship that develops between a New York singer and a comedy writer.
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Pig (Country: UK; Year: 2021; Director: Michael Sarnoski; Writer: Vanessa Block, Michael Sarnoski, Michael Sarnoski; Stars: Nicolas Cage, Alex Wolff, Cassandra Violet, Julia Bray, Elijah Ungvary, Beth Harper, Brian Sutherland, David Shaughnessy, Gretchen Corbett, Sean Tarjyoto, Darius Pierce, Kevin Michael Moore, Tom Walton, Davis King, Nina Belforte)
A truffle hunter who lives alone in the Oregonian wilderness is forced to return to his past in Portland in search of his beloved foraging pig after she is kidnapped
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