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The Greatest Showman

Drama

Directed by Michael Gracey

The story of American showman P.T. Barnum, founder of the circus that became the famous traveling Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus. From TMDB

193 reactions from 4 sources (Bluesky, Mastodon, Lemmy, TMDB reviews) · newest Nov 3, 2026 · last updated Nov 4, 2026 · How this works

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The Greatest Showman is a 2017 drama film, directed by Michael Gracey, starring Hugh Jackman, Zac Efron and Michelle Williams.

  • 179 people have posted about this film on Bluesky, Mastodon, Lemmy, TMDB reviews
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  • The New York Times @nytimes.comBluesky · Mar 5, 2025

    “The Greatest Showman,” a hit 2017 film about the circus impresario P.T. Barnum, is being adapted for the stage by Disney and will have an initial production in early 2026 in Bristol, England.

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  • Seanan McGuire @seananmcguire.bsky.socialBluesky · Nov 1, 2026

    And my mother, for better or for worse, really, REALLY loves THE GREATEST SHOWMAN. You know, the movie musical about PT Barnum that came out a few years ago, the one with Hugh Jackman.

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  • Kirpal Singh @kirpalsingh.bsky.socialBluesky · Sep 22, 2025

    You don't need everyone to love you. Just a few good people. Movie : The Greatest Showman 🍀 🍂 🎵 (Photo by Kirpal Singh)

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  • SoroSoro @sorosoro321.bsky.socialBluesky · Jun 8, 2025

    Rewrite the Stars from the movie the Greatest Showman tracing Finally passed 20 sec mark😭🥳 #jayvik #arcane

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  • ex-Lethality Jane @lethalityjane.bsky.socialBluesky · May 19, 2024

    Watching "The Greatest Showman" again because my younger daughter adores this film and am once again struck by how Hugh Jackman seduces Zach Efron with alcohol and suggesting he come over "to the other side" so of course they have to have him meet Zendaya right after because it's just too gay.

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  • Fheang @fheang.comBluesky · Feb 27, 2025

    Was re-watching my favorite movie (The Greatest Showman) and ofc everything reminds me of these nerds I love so much #jayvik #jayce #viktor #arcane #leagueoflegends

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  • AdequateEmily @adequateemily.bsky.socialBluesky · Jan 16, 2025

    I regret to inform you all that the CG monkey movie about a guy I’ve never heard of with mid music directed by the director of The Greatest Showman…somehow won me over.

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  • Music Box Theatre @musicboxtheatre.bsky.socialBluesky · Jul 30, 2026

    THE GREATEST SHOWMAN: FIVE BY WILLIAM CASTLE The gimmicks are back, the screams are real, and the spirit of the greatest carnival barker in movie history once again prowls the aisles of the Music Box Theatre! August 21st-27th Tickets On Sale Now: musicboxtheatre.com/series-and-f...

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  • ✨ Star @ LBX ✨ @thestarfishface.bsky.socialBluesky · May 4, 2025

    The Greatest Showman as a film: Eh The Greatest Showman Soundtrack: Oh fuck yeah I can't help it man some of those songs fuckin slap. Shame the movie is uhhhhhmmmmmmmmmm

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  • Tom & Lorenzo @tomandlorenzo.bsky.socialBluesky · Apr 10, 2026

    For this week's Bitter Kitten Movie Club, we're diving deep into THE GREATEST SHOWMAN, looking at its triumphs and drawbacks, where it soars and where it goes horribly wrong: tomandlorenzo.com/2026/04/the-...

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  • Zak @[email protected]Lemmy · Jun 17, 2026

    The list: https://github.com/nzaki-dev/dialog - **Immad Akhund** - Founder & CEO, Mercury. - **Turki Al Faisal Al Saud** - Founder, King Faisal Foundation. Fmr. Minister of Intelligence, Saudi Arabia. - **Reema Al-Saud** - Ambassador of Saudi Arabia to the U.S. - **John Arnold** - Co-Chair, Arnold Ventures. Fmr. Founder, Centaurus Advisors. - **Susan Athey** - Professor, Stanford Graduate School of Business. Fmr. Chief Economist, Antitrust Division, U.S. Department of Justice. - **Peter…

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  • Tom & Lorenzo @tomandlorenzo.bsky.socialBluesky · Apr 13, 2026

    For this week's Bitter Kitten Movie Club, we're diving deep into THE GREATEST SHOWMAN, looking at its triumphs and drawbacks, where it soars and where it goes horribly wrong: tomandlorenzo.com/2026/04/the-...

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  • Tasha Robinson @tasharobinson.bsky.socialBluesky · Jan 11, 2025

    BETTER MAN was one of my favorite films last year, for reasons having nothing to do with Robbie Williams — it came as a complete surprise what THE GREATEST SHOWMAN director Michael Gracey is actually doing with this film. I waited until wide release to write about it:

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  • Cosmic Marvel @dailycosmicmarvel.bsky.socialBluesky · Jan 7, 2026

    Details on the live-action ‘TANGLED’ film: • Teagan Croft & Milo Manheim will play Rapunzel & Flynn Rider. • Michael Gracey (‘The Greatest Showman’) will direct. • Jennifer Kaytin Robinson (‘Thor: Love and Thunder’) wrote the script. • Kristin Burr (‘Christopher Robin’ & ‘Cruella’) will produce.

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  • William Bibbiani @williambibbiani.bsky.socialBluesky · Dec 23, 2024

    I like this film about Robbie, from Chimpan-A to Chimpanzee! My take on BETTER MAN, the latest from the director of THE GREATEST SHOWMAN, is here! 📽️ (Also I don't usually talk about when I like my own work - because I usually don't - but I'm quite fond of the first 2.15 paragraphs of this review.)

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  • Louise 💛 To The Universe ✨ @louiserabeyart.bsky.socialBluesky · Dec 16, 2025

    I rewatched The Greatest Showman last night and now I kiiinnndddaaa wanna do an Aziracrow comic to ‘The Other Side’ where they set the Arrangement 🤣 (And rewrite the stars because that is the best song in the film and very Aziracrow)

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  • Xandyr @xxxandyr.bsky.socialBluesky · Dec 31, 2024

    5 Faves - 5 Tags WEATHER: Thunderstorms!! ⛈️ ANIMAL: Cats, always 🐱 CAKE: German chocolste cake 🍰 HOLIDAY: Christmas 🎄 MOVIE: The Greatest Showman 🎪 I tag: @frankblankprime.bsky.social @pupryder37.bsky.social @succubear.bsky.social @rasgueado.curvedspace.media @wolfkratus.bsky.social

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  • ✨🔮 Frazzie 🔮✨ scandalous minx~ 🔞 @frazzlesins.bsky.socialBluesky · Nov 4, 2024

    Speaking of The Greatest Showman, apparently since that movie came out tons of circuses add the title song to their shows, soooo it is VERY possible Ringmaster!Oracle might perform it for you at his circus. Just sayin’~ 😉

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  • Music Box Theatre @musicboxtheatre.bsky.socialBluesky · Aug 4, 2026

    THE GREATEST SHOWMAN: FIVE BY WILLIAM CASTLE The gimmicks are back, the screams are real, and the spirit of the greatest carnival barker in movie history once again prowls the aisles of the Music Box Theatre! August 21st-27th Tickets On Sale Now: musicboxtheatre.com/series-and-f...

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  • 🩵Professional Saint Peter fucker🩵 @xxdragonvenomartxx.bsky.socialBluesky · Jul 3, 2026

    I just thought about something, and now I'm sad. When my bird was alive, she used to sing and dance whenever "From Now On" from The Greatest Showman came on. Now, whenever that movie is playing, I realize I’ll never get to hear her sing along again. :(

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  • Kevin McLenithan @mclengthyname.bsky.socialBluesky · May 13, 2025

    Dunno about music - LA LA LAND and THE GREATEST SHOWMAN were huge, to say nothing of stuff like Disney movies and B-way adaptations. There's something to your sex point, though, which I'd argue is less about titillation and more about the desperation to see a film that was made for friggin' grownups

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  • echoplex21 @[email protected]Lemmy · Jul 24, 2023

    Transformers : Dark of the Moon - easily the best transformers movie. They let transformers just beat up on transformers for the last hour and half. Score was excellent by Steve Jablonsky, action was great and was a nice end to the first trilogy where there was at least a little effort to keep the story consistent. Man of Steel - beautiful score and cinematography. The closest thing we will get to a high budget dragon ball Z movie. Still the best visualization of Kryptonian strength and speed…

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  • Music Box Theatre @musicboxtheatre.bsky.socialBluesky · Aug 5, 2026

    THE GREATEST SHOWMAN: FIVE BY WILLIAM CASTLE August 21st-27th The gimmicks are back, the screams are real, and the spirit of the greatest carnival barker in movie history once again prowls the aisles of the Music Box Theatre! Tickets On Sale Now: musicboxtheatre.com/series-and-f...

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  • Jamie Garwood @nexttotheaisle.bsky.socialBluesky · May 26, 2026

    #DavidsMonthofMusic #MusicChallenge @dmiddleham.bsky.social Day 27: From a film you saw at the cinema Come Alive - The Greatest Showman open.spotify.com/track/5xNUR5...

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  • Hosey Leopardo @hoebigcat.bsky.socialBluesky · Mar 13, 2024

    The Greatest Showman is a weird movie. I get it's supposed to be a fun musical but they just kinda ignore what a huge grifter Barnum was.

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  • 🎨 MarKus with a K 🎮 @mwithak.bsky.socialBluesky · Nov 8, 2025

    Sitting on the train home and the soundtrack to The Greatest Showman comes on and this is my frequent reminder that I can never watch and enjoy that movie again because it was 'our movie' for my ex and I got me like 😒😒😒

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  • FateOfTheCrow @[email protected]Lemmy · Feb 3, 2026

    If Hollywood ever made an Epstein film, I wouldn't put it past them to portray him the exact same way that The Greatest Showman portrayed PT Barnum. Or something [like this](https://youtu.be/eXNazfBGnSM).

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  • Adam Scott @dalek82.bsky.socialBluesky · Dec 18, 2024

    #FilmSky #Movies 🎬🎥 Choose 20 films that have stayed with you or influenced you. One film per day for 20 days, in no particular order, gifs only. (12/20) The Greatest Showman #TheGreatestShowman #HughJackman

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  • zoë “delta badhand” badhand @zoextine.bsky.socialBluesky · Apr 21, 2025

    This is a little something from a little movie musical called “The Greatest Showman,” which I am currently writing

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  • Bambi @arhimharellan.bsky.socialBluesky · Jan 20, 2025

    The Greatest Showman is a great movie and I will die on this hill

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  • John Duncan @johntheduncan.bsky.socialBluesky · Jan 17, 2025

    The most off-putting things about the Robbie Williams movie is that it's directed by the guy who did The Greatest Showman which is one of the worst movies I've ever seen

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  • Marti @virtuallymarti.bsky.socialBluesky · Jan 11, 2025

    Super rough start to the year. Burnt out. Having a little emotional moment watching The Greatest Showman. I love this film so much.

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  • Amelia Emberwing @thatwitchmia.bsky.socialBluesky · Aug 15, 2026

    They're previewing songs with the performers of THE GREATEST SHOWMAN musical. It will make a billion dollars. The performers are doing well, unfortunately I hated the movie so much that I cried about it lol 🙃 #D23

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  • Richy Craven @richycraven.bsky.socialBluesky · Dec 26, 2025

    Watching The Greatest Showman. When is Hugh Jackman going to use that Deadpool vs. Wolverine money to make another big budget movie musical?

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  • Pen Dragon @thependrake.bsky.socialBluesky · Apr 9, 2025

    I like the songs from The Greatest Showman but every time they come on I have to remember what an egregious piece of dogshit that movie was

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  • The-Autistic-Artist 🥥 🎃 🍉 🏳️‍🌈 Halloween Era @theautisticart.bsky.socialBluesky · Feb 28, 2025

    I just thought back to something regarding Illumination's The Lorax (2012): You have Taylor Swift (one of THE top musical names ever) and Zac Efron (famous for High School Musical, Hairspray, and The Greatest Showman) in your animated musical film, and you DON'T let their characters sing?

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  • Ben Millett @benmillett.netBluesky · Jan 23, 2025

    Put The Greatest Showman back on for tonight’s quilting. I completely forgot how this movie solved racism and classism.

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  • No Gods No Mayors Podcast @nogodsnomayors.comBluesky · Jan 16, 2025

    Exclusively on the Mayoral Benevolent Feed: Municipal movie corner with THE GREATEST SHOWMAN (2017) nogodsnomayors.com

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  • Cosmic Marvel @dailycosmicmarvel.bsky.socialBluesky · Dec 25, 2024

    The new original song ‘Waiting on a Wish’ from Disney’s live-action ‘SNOW WHITE’ film is written by Benj Pasek and Justin Paul. The duo previously worked on ‘La La Land’, ‘The Greatest Showman’ and ‘Aladdin’

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  • Callie Petch @calliepetch.bsky.socialBluesky · Dec 9, 2024

    For those who'd already fled The Other Site when it went live, I made my @moviemarker.bsky.social debut on Friday to inform you all that Better Man, the bold-as-hell Robbie Williams biopic, is great enough to work as an apology for The Greatest Showman. #FilmSky moviemarker.co.uk/better-man-%...

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  • Ryan @ryumac.bsky.socialBluesky · Jul 30, 2026

    I wonder who it was at corporate radio that decided we still needed the same 3 songs from The Greatest Showman to play everyday 8 years after the film

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  • 🏳️‍🌈 Kimberly L Piper Writes Queer Shit 🏳️‍🌈 @klpwrites.bsky.socialBluesky · Feb 20, 2026

    Happy #LetterboxdFriday! Time to post your #LastFourWatched 👼 Shooter The Greatest Showman Sing 2 Sing Happy Watching!

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  • Citizen.Coping @propcazhpm.bsky.socialBluesky · Feb 18, 2026

    Hands down, "The Greatest Showman". 1/10 🎬👎🏾 And I hope the Broadway production of the film fails spectacularly.

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  • MrAdamR @mradamr.bsky.socialBluesky · Dec 6, 2025

    🫨📢 THE GREATEST SHOWMAN IS A MOVIE NOT YET A MUSICAL SO SHOULD BE ON MOVIES WEEK NOT MUSICALS WEEK #strictly #scd

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  • Roya Shahidi | Looking for work @rsdream12.bsky.socialBluesky · Mar 28, 2025

    Sometimes I remember The Greatest Showman, which I like to refer it as “an ok movie with a FANTASTIC soundtrack”

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  • ACA🅱️ @yesallcops.netBluesky · Feb 15, 2025

    The Greatest Showman is a really fun movie and @kittyburps.bsky.social is a really great wife

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  • Agents Of Fandom @agentsoffandom.bsky.socialBluesky · Jan 28, 2025

    Jon M. Chu and Jill Culton's 'OH, THE PLACES YOU'LL GO' will be released in general and IMAX theaters on March 17, 2028. Benj Paske and Justin Paul ('LA LA LAND', 'THE GREATEST SHOWMAN') will write songs for the film.

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  • Mitch @mtnmitchy.bsky.socialBluesky · Dec 29, 2024

    The Greatest Showman is a great movie send skeet

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  • EzekielJK @[email protected]Lemmy · Jul 25, 2023

    I'm 24 so my options are slim for "released during my adult life" but I really like The Greatest Showman and it's got a 57%. Yes, it's wildly inaccurate but dang the music and visuals are great. My favorite movie of all time is A Goofy Movie from 1995 and just eeked out of the running with a 61%. Seriously, the movie is better than you remember it since you start to empathize with the dad as you grow up. I really recommend it.

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  • ✨💕Brace💕✨ @brace4haste.bsky.socialBluesky · Oct 28, 2026

    Add "between my legs" to a movie title The Greatest Showman Between My Legs

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  • Darren Richardson (He/Him) @lostone1980.bsky.socialBluesky · Sep 20, 2026

    The Greatest Showman. Brilliant film, brilliant cast (Hugh Jackman, who everyone forgets was a musical theatre actor before X-Men,is brilliant in it), and a bloody cracking good sound track, see "A Million Dreams", "Never Enough", "Rewrite the Stars" & the anthem to the disenfranchised "This is Me"

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  • Tweety @tweety-woody.bsky.socialBluesky · Sep 13, 2026

    Saturday night is movie night. #TheGreatestShowman #MovieSky #Saturday

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  • 🦋🍓IrisFaeBlossom🍓🦋 @irisfaeblossom.bsky.socialBluesky · Aug 31, 2026

    Not my best decision to watch that while it’s that time of the month bc I WEPT! 😭 Finding out the same song writers for “The Greatest Showman” worked on this movie as well. YEP I NOTICED BC THAT MOVIE GOT MY ASS TOO!!! 😭😭😭

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  • Kristen Lopez @kristenklopez.bsky.socialBluesky · Aug 18, 2026

    I'm full of surprises! I decided to finally do a proper Popcorn Disabilities article on THE GREATEST SHOWMAN after Disney showed off the new Broadway show. I love the circus musical but....oof that plot. Read now at The Film Maven! thefilmmaven.com/the-greatest...

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  • Spencer Amundson @sodajerk.bsky.socialBluesky · Sep 6, 2025

    #LastFourWatched The Cameraman has one of the greatest monkeys in film history. The Greatest Showman is about PT Barnum and how the only thing he ever did wrong was care too much :). Anchorman still has some great bits and Get Out remains amazing. Mostly rewatches while working this week ✌️

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  • Your Cuzin Vinny 💙 🇲🇽 🇨🇦 🇺🇦 🇪🇺 🇵🇸 🇮🇷 🇱🇧 @yourcuzinvinny.bsky.socialBluesky · May 20, 2025

    The Greatest Show The Greatest Showman Movie Cast

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  • Sean Fay-Wolfe | Diamond Axe Studios @seanfaywolfe.bsky.socialBluesky · Apr 26, 2025

    Most popular Film Soundtracks of the 21st century according to Billboard: 1. Frozen 2. High School Musical 3. The Greatest Showman 4. O Brother, Where Art Thou? 5. A Star Is Born 6. Moana 7. Twilight 8. High School Musical 2 9. Hannah Montana 10. Mama Mia! 11. Encanto 12. Juno 13. 8 Mile

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  • margot-and-hamish2.bsky.social @margot-and-hamish2.bsky.socialBluesky · Mar 15, 2025

    You need a new film, Hollywood. You've had the 'Greatest Showman' Now you need one called 'The Greatest Conman.'

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  • Sister Cinema Swap Podcast @sistercinemaswap.bsky.socialBluesky · Jun 17, 2026

    This week on Sister Cinema Swap, Kate and Emily finally watch Tick, Tick... Boom! with special guest @philthefilipino.bsky.social from the Wait For It Podcast. They discuss dystopian societies, The Greatest Showman, stream of consciousness, cringe interests, a good use of movie budget, and Covid.

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  • Victoria aka Blaze @burrddoh.bsky.socialBluesky · Jan 9, 2026

    #JanuaryMovieChallenge Day 9: Circus in a movie The Greatest Showman - 2017

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