Postcards from the Edge
Starring:Meryl Streep, Shirley MacLaine, Dennis Quaid, Gene Hackman, Richard Dreyfuss, Rob Reiner, Mary Wickes, Conrad Bain, Annette Bening, Simon Callow, Gary Morton, CCH Pounder, Sidney Armus, Robin Bartlett, Barbara Garrick, Anthony Heald, Dana Ivey, Oliver Platt, Michael Ontkean, Pepe Serna
Director: Mike Nichols
Studio: Sony Pictures
Product Type: DVD
Editorial Review:
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As its title might suggest, this movie based on Carrie Fisher's Hollywood struggle works better as a snapshot than as a complete film. Meryl Streep plays Suzanne Vale, a successful actress who is lost in her addictions. Her episodes are never as bombastic as Clean and Sober or other antidrug movies of the 1990s, however. Vale's a more lovable person, and as with all lovable people in Hollywood, other Hollywood people care for her: an understanding director (Gene Hackman), a philandering boyfriend (Dennis Quaid), and a bemused doctor (Richard Dreyfuss). But if you are going to talk about Fisher, you are going to mention her mom, Debbie Reynolds. And here Vale's mom is the die-hard Doris Mann, played with appropriate virtuosity by Shirley MacLaine. The love-hate mother-daughter relationship takes over the film in an entertaining way, with Fisher's sharp comic writing coming into play. You nearly forgive Vale's troubles for having to live under a hurricane like Mann (who goes into her nightclub act at the drop of a hat). The film's sweetest pleasure is seeing Streep loose and modern, nary a drab outfit or an accent in sight. Streep and director Mike Nichols make a risky--and rewarding--finale (fueled by the Oscar-nominated "I'm Checking Out" by Shel Silverstein) work effortlessly. --Doug Thomas
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- Entertaining and bittersweet; actors are pros!
- Classic Mother and daughter conflict
- Meryl Streep Fan
- Stolid Autobiography Excellently Transmuted
- A Great Inside View Of Hollywood
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Postcards from the Edge
Starring: Meryl Streep , Shirley MacLaine , Dennis Quaid , Gene Hackman , and Richard Dreyfuss
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ASIN: B000059XTI
Release Date: 2001-05-01 |
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As its title might suggest, this movie based on Carrie Fisher's Hollywood struggle works better as a snapshot than as a complete film. Meryl Streep plays Suzanne Vale, a successful actress who is lost in her addictions. Her episodes are never as bombastic as Clean and Sober or other antidrug movies of the 1990s, however. Vale's a more lovable person, and as with all lovable people in Hollywood, other Hollywood people care for her: an understanding director (Gene Hackman), a philandering boyfriend (Dennis Quaid), and a bemused doctor (Richard Dreyfuss). But if you are going to talk about Fisher, you are going to mention her mom, Debbie Reynolds. And here Vale's mom is the die-hard Doris Mann, played with appropriate virtuosity by Shirley MacLaine. The love-hate mother-daughter relationship takes over the film in an entertaining way, with Fisher's sharp comic writing coming into play. You nearly forgive Vale's troubles for having to live under a hurricane like Mann (who goes into her nightclub act at the drop of a hat). The film's sweetest pleasure is seeing Streep loose and modern, nary a drab outfit or an accent in sight. Streep and director Mike Nichols make a risky--and rewarding--finale (fueled by the Oscar-nominated "I'm Checking Out" by Shel Silverstein) work effortlessly. --Doug Thomas
Customer Reviews:
Entertaining and bittersweet; actors are pros!.......2007-05-12
This is a great story based on Carrie Fisher and her mother and their relationship. Of course Shirley MacLaine is exceptional as always but Meryl Streep surprised me with her talent for singing (this was long before Prairie Home Companion!) Really entertaining.
Classic Mother and daughter conflict.......2007-02-03
I think most women can relate to this tale regardless of the profession. For some mothers and daughters there's a constant struggle for approval and independence. A lot of times we are both the cause and the solution to our problems and it's never easy to view your parents as just human beings who screw up every once in a while. Meryl and Shirley are great together and each have created memoriable characters.
Meryl Streep Fan.......2007-01-12
I had no idea that Meryl Streep had such a wonderful singing voice! The song at the end of the movie,"Checking Out",has a haunting quality about it and Meryl delivers it well. If you are a Meryl Streep or Shirley MacLaine fan, you'll love it.
Stolid Autobiography Excellently Transmuted.......2006-08-11
The first of many thing to stun me upon viewing the film version of "Postcards From The Edge", was the deft ability of the two-some to take themes concretely listed in the autobiography and express them with such uninhibited vigor and verisimilitude as to make the audience gasp in an ensnaring and intriguing breath. Indeed, Shirley McClain and Meryl Streep perform fantastic acting roles on film, which imparts to the literate viewer who has experienced both written and screenplay materials, the inference that the movie, above all else, is a bit unparralled in tension, sentiment and emotion.
Which is probably why Carrie Fisher's written autobiography was a plummeting flop. The lack of an emotional snatcher and a connective human element could not keep the reader hooked and interested to Fisher's frozen and stodgy book. This film totally redeems the reputation of Fisher's work! It does not stint in involving the audience with the bona fide quandaries and quagmires Carrie was suffering from in her horrendous drug addiction. Meryl Streep's acting is incontrovertibly superb! She does everything comprehensible to express the height of feelings and emotions Fisher was involved with curbing her addiction and concillating her relationship with her mother. McClain's acting, as well, is equally surpassing. The mode in which she assumes the ways and mannerisms of Debbie Reynolds is so plausible, it almost seems as though McClain could have made a subtle transmigration. Excellente!
A scene in the movie which striked me as most remarkable, is when both mother and daughter perform in front of their coteries and close relatives singing songs like "You Don't Know Me" by Ray Charles, and chanting allong to the chords of the piano while dancing and gesturing in an ebullient fit. It is truly astounding how these actors could impersonate the lives of Fisher and Reynolds so well, that I could think of either of the pairs, inverted, that they were alike. It is a very uncanny experience to observe!
The flowing transitions from scene to scene in their relaxed and passive manner are also pleasant qualities the film posseses. The rate at which the scenes change and the camera interation is so precise and astute, it really heightens the culmination of drama and siginificance of emotional content in the film on top of the transcendant acting.
In all which ways, "Postcards From The Edge" is an enticing film that is able to connect audiences everywhere with thematic elements in life that seem so close and familiar. The entirety of the film wraps an individual in a sentimental blanket of realism and authenticity; of the journey of a veritable relationship between mother and daughter, and how it is able to thrive and blossom among the myriad others on Earth with just the right support, attitude and will power.
A Great Inside View Of Hollywood.......2006-02-24
This movie, along with her other collaberation with director Mike Nichols, "Silkwood", are Meryl Streep's two best movies in my opinion. Fully relatable characters, well acted, witty script, and a behind-the-scenes look at Hollywood, and its relationships that is very realistic. This film is very underrated, in my opinion. This film would make a great addition to anyone's collection, for those who like films of a certain standard.
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Average customer rating:
- Entertaining and bittersweet; actors are pros!
- Classic Mother and daughter conflict
- Meryl Streep Fan
- Stolid Autobiography Excellently Transmuted
- A Great Inside View Of Hollywood
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Postcards from the Edge [Region 2]
Starring: Meryl Streep , Shirley MacLaine , Dennis Quaid , Gene Hackman , and Richard Dreyfuss
Director: Mike Nichols
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As its title might suggest, this movie based on Carrie Fisher's Hollywood struggle works better as a snapshot than as a complete film. Meryl Streep plays Suzanne Vale, a successful actress who is lost in her addictions. Her episodes are never as bombastic as Clean and Sober or other antidrug movies of the 1990s, however. Vale's a more lovable person, and as with all lovable people in Hollywood, other Hollywood people care for her: an understanding director (Gene Hackman), a philandering boyfriend (Dennis Quaid), and a bemused doctor (Richard Dreyfuss). But if you are going to talk about Fisher, you are going to mention her mom, Debbie Reynolds. And here Vale's mom is the die-hard Doris Mann, played with appropriate virtuosity by Shirley MacLaine. The love-hate mother-daughter relationship takes over the film in an entertaining way, with Fisher's sharp comic writing coming into play. You nearly forgive Vale's troubles for having to live under a hurricane like Mann (who goes into her nightclub act at the drop of a hat). The film's sweetest pleasure is seeing Streep loose and modern, nary a drab outfit or an accent in sight. Streep and director Mike Nichols make a risky--and rewarding--finale (fueled by the Oscar-nominated "I'm Checking Out" by Shel Silverstein) work effortlessly. --Doug Thomas
Customer Reviews:
Entertaining and bittersweet; actors are pros!.......2007-05-12
This is a great story based on Carrie Fisher and her mother and their relationship. Of course Shirley MacLaine is exceptional as always but Meryl Streep surprised me with her talent for singing (this was long before Prairie Home Companion!) Really entertaining.
Classic Mother and daughter conflict.......2007-02-03
I think most women can relate to this tale regardless of the profession. For some mothers and daughters there's a constant struggle for approval and independence. A lot of times we are both the cause and the solution to our problems and it's never easy to view your parents as just human beings who screw up every once in a while. Meryl and Shirley are great together and each have created memoriable characters.
Meryl Streep Fan.......2007-01-12
I had no idea that Meryl Streep had such a wonderful singing voice! The song at the end of the movie,"Checking Out",has a haunting quality about it and Meryl delivers it well. If you are a Meryl Streep or Shirley MacLaine fan, you'll love it.
Stolid Autobiography Excellently Transmuted.......2006-08-11
The first of many thing to stun me upon viewing the film version of "Postcards From The Edge", was the deft ability of the two-some to take themes concretely listed in the autobiography and express them with such uninhibited vigor and verisimilitude as to make the audience gasp in an ensnaring and intriguing breath. Indeed, Shirley McClain and Meryl Streep perform fantastic acting roles on film, which imparts to the literate viewer who has experienced both written and screenplay materials, the inference that the movie, above all else, is a bit unparralled in tension, sentiment and emotion.
Which is probably why Carrie Fisher's written autobiography was a plummeting flop. The lack of an emotional snatcher and a connective human element could not keep the reader hooked and interested to Fisher's frozen and stodgy book. This film totally redeems the reputation of Fisher's work! It does not stint in involving the audience with the bona fide quandaries and quagmires Carrie was suffering from in her horrendous drug addiction. Meryl Streep's acting is incontrovertibly superb! She does everything comprehensible to express the height of feelings and emotions Fisher was involved with curbing her addiction and concillating her relationship with her mother. McClain's acting, as well, is equally surpassing. The mode in which she assumes the ways and mannerisms of Debbie Reynolds is so plausible, it almost seems as though McClain could have made a subtle transmigration. Excellente!
A scene in the movie which striked me as most remarkable, is when both mother and daughter perform in front of their coteries and close relatives singing songs like "You Don't Know Me" by Ray Charles, and chanting allong to the chords of the piano while dancing and gesturing in an ebullient fit. It is truly astounding how these actors could impersonate the lives of Fisher and Reynolds so well, that I could think of either of the pairs, inverted, that they were alike. It is a very uncanny experience to observe!
The flowing transitions from scene to scene in their relaxed and passive manner are also pleasant qualities the film posseses. The rate at which the scenes change and the camera interation is so precise and astute, it really heightens the culmination of drama and siginificance of emotional content in the film on top of the transcendant acting.
In all which ways, "Postcards From The Edge" is an enticing film that is able to connect audiences everywhere with thematic elements in life that seem so close and familiar. The entirety of the film wraps an individual in a sentimental blanket of realism and authenticity; of the journey of a veritable relationship between mother and daughter, and how it is able to thrive and blossom among the myriad others on Earth with just the right support, attitude and will power.
A Great Inside View Of Hollywood.......2006-02-24
This movie, along with her other collaberation with director Mike Nichols, "Silkwood", are Meryl Streep's two best movies in my opinion. Fully relatable characters, well acted, witty script, and a behind-the-scenes look at Hollywood, and its relationships that is very realistic. This film is very underrated, in my opinion. This film would make a great addition to anyone's collection, for those who like films of a certain standard.
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Charlie Rose with Meryl Streep (March 22, 2000)
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Release Date: 2006-11-06 |
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Actress Meryl Streep on her passions, her family, her films, including The Bridges of Madison County, Sophie's Choice, Kramer vs. Kramer and her latest, Music of the Heart, in which she plays a high school music teacher, a role that earned her a twelfth Oscar nomination.
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Release Date: 2006-12-21 |
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A rebroadcast of a con versation with actress Meryl Streep on her passions, her family, her films, including The Bridges of Madison County, Sophie's Choice, Kramer vs. Kramer and her latest, Music of the Heart, in which she plays a high school music teacher, a role that earned her a twelfth Oscar nomination. This segment originally aired on March 22, 2000.
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Average customer rating:
- Entertaining and bittersweet; actors are pros!
- Classic Mother and daughter conflict
- Meryl Streep Fan
- Stolid Autobiography Excellently Transmuted
- A Great Inside View Of Hollywood
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Postcards from the Edge [Region 2]
Starring: Meryl Streep , Shirley MacLaine , Dennis Quaid , Gene Hackman , and Richard Dreyfuss
Director: Mike Nichols
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ASIN: B00005956E |
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As its title might suggest, this movie based on Carrie Fisher's Hollywood struggle works better as a snapshot than as a complete film. Meryl Streep plays Suzanne Vale, a successful actress who is lost in her addictions. Her episodes are never as bombastic as Clean and Sober or other antidrug movies of the 1990s, however. Vale's a more lovable person, and as with all lovable people in Hollywood, other Hollywood people care for her: an understanding director (Gene Hackman), a philandering boyfriend (Dennis Quaid), and a bemused doctor (Richard Dreyfuss). But if you are going to talk about Fisher, you are going to mention her mom, Debbie Reynolds. And here Vale's mom is the die-hard Doris Mann, played with appropriate virtuosity by Shirley MacLaine. The love-hate mother-daughter relationship takes over the film in an entertaining way, with Fisher's sharp comic writing coming into play. You nearly forgive Vale's troubles for having to live under a hurricane like Mann (who goes into her nightclub act at the drop of a hat). The film's sweetest pleasure is seeing Streep loose and modern, nary a drab outfit or an accent in sight. Streep and director Mike Nichols make a risky--and rewarding--finale (fueled by the Oscar-nominated "I'm Checking Out" by Shel Silverstein) work effortlessly. --Doug Thomas
Customer Reviews:
Entertaining and bittersweet; actors are pros!.......2007-05-12
This is a great story based on Carrie Fisher and her mother and their relationship. Of course Shirley MacLaine is exceptional as always but Meryl Streep surprised me with her talent for singing (this was long before Prairie Home Companion!) Really entertaining.
Classic Mother and daughter conflict.......2007-02-03
I think most women can relate to this tale regardless of the profession. For some mothers and daughters there's a constant struggle for approval and independence. A lot of times we are both the cause and the solution to our problems and it's never easy to view your parents as just human beings who screw up every once in a while. Meryl and Shirley are great together and each have created memoriable characters.
Meryl Streep Fan.......2007-01-12
I had no idea that Meryl Streep had such a wonderful singing voice! The song at the end of the movie,"Checking Out",has a haunting quality about it and Meryl delivers it well. If you are a Meryl Streep or Shirley MacLaine fan, you'll love it.
Stolid Autobiography Excellently Transmuted.......2006-08-11
The first of many thing to stun me upon viewing the film version of "Postcards From The Edge", was the deft ability of the two-some to take themes concretely listed in the autobiography and express them with such uninhibited vigor and verisimilitude as to make the audience gasp in an ensnaring and intriguing breath. Indeed, Shirley McClain and Meryl Streep perform fantastic acting roles on film, which imparts to the literate viewer who has experienced both written and screenplay materials, the inference that the movie, above all else, is a bit unparralled in tension, sentiment and emotion.
Which is probably why Carrie Fisher's written autobiography was a plummeting flop. The lack of an emotional snatcher and a connective human element could not keep the reader hooked and interested to Fisher's frozen and stodgy book. This film totally redeems the reputation of Fisher's work! It does not stint in involving the audience with the bona fide quandaries and quagmires Carrie was suffering from in her horrendous drug addiction. Meryl Streep's acting is incontrovertibly superb! She does everything comprehensible to express the height of feelings and emotions Fisher was involved with curbing her addiction and concillating her relationship with her mother. McClain's acting, as well, is equally surpassing. The mode in which she assumes the ways and mannerisms of Debbie Reynolds is so plausible, it almost seems as though McClain could have made a subtle transmigration. Excellente!
A scene in the movie which striked me as most remarkable, is when both mother and daughter perform in front of their coteries and close relatives singing songs like "You Don't Know Me" by Ray Charles, and chanting allong to the chords of the piano while dancing and gesturing in an ebullient fit. It is truly astounding how these actors could impersonate the lives of Fisher and Reynolds so well, that I could think of either of the pairs, inverted, that they were alike. It is a very uncanny experience to observe!
The flowing transitions from scene to scene in their relaxed and passive manner are also pleasant qualities the film posseses. The rate at which the scenes change and the camera interation is so precise and astute, it really heightens the culmination of drama and siginificance of emotional content in the film on top of the transcendant acting.
In all which ways, "Postcards From The Edge" is an enticing film that is able to connect audiences everywhere with thematic elements in life that seem so close and familiar. The entirety of the film wraps an individual in a sentimental blanket of realism and authenticity; of the journey of a veritable relationship between mother and daughter, and how it is able to thrive and blossom among the myriad others on Earth with just the right support, attitude and will power.
A Great Inside View Of Hollywood.......2006-02-24
This movie, along with her other collaberation with director Mike Nichols, "Silkwood", are Meryl Streep's two best movies in my opinion. Fully relatable characters, well acted, witty script, and a behind-the-scenes look at Hollywood, and its relationships that is very realistic. This film is very underrated, in my opinion. This film would make a great addition to anyone's collection, for those who like films of a certain standard.
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Average customer rating:
- Entertaining and bittersweet; actors are pros!
- Classic Mother and daughter conflict
- Meryl Streep Fan
- Stolid Autobiography Excellently Transmuted
- A Great Inside View Of Hollywood
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Starring: Meryl Streep , Shirley MacLaine , Dennis Quaid , Gene Hackman , and Richard Dreyfuss
Director: Mike Nichols
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As its title might suggest, this movie based on Carrie Fisher's Hollywood struggle works better as a snapshot than as a complete film. Meryl Streep plays Suzanne Vale, a successful actress who is lost in her addictions. Her episodes are never as bombastic as Clean and Sober or other antidrug movies of the 1990s, however. Vale's a more lovable person, and as with all lovable people in Hollywood, other Hollywood people care for her: an understanding director (Gene Hackman), a philandering boyfriend (Dennis Quaid), and a bemused doctor (Richard Dreyfuss). But if you are going to talk about Fisher, you are going to mention her mom, Debbie Reynolds. And here Vale's mom is the die-hard Doris Mann, played with appropriate virtuosity by Shirley MacLaine. The love-hate mother-daughter relationship takes over the film in an entertaining way, with Fisher's sharp comic writing coming into play. You nearly forgive Vale's troubles for having to live under a hurricane like Mann (who goes into her nightclub act at the drop of a hat). The film's sweetest pleasure is seeing Streep loose and modern, nary a drab outfit or an accent in sight. Streep and director Mike Nichols make a risky--and rewarding--finale (fueled by the Oscar-nominated "I'm Checking Out" by Shel Silverstein) work effortlessly. --Doug Thomas
Customer Reviews:
Entertaining and bittersweet; actors are pros!.......2007-05-12
This is a great story based on Carrie Fisher and her mother and their relationship. Of course Shirley MacLaine is exceptional as always but Meryl Streep surprised me with her talent for singing (this was long before Prairie Home Companion!) Really entertaining.
Classic Mother and daughter conflict.......2007-02-03
I think most women can relate to this tale regardless of the profession. For some mothers and daughters there's a constant struggle for approval and independence. A lot of times we are both the cause and the solution to our problems and it's never easy to view your parents as just human beings who screw up every once in a while. Meryl and Shirley are great together and each have created memoriable characters.
Meryl Streep Fan.......2007-01-12
I had no idea that Meryl Streep had such a wonderful singing voice! The song at the end of the movie,"Checking Out",has a haunting quality about it and Meryl delivers it well. If you are a Meryl Streep or Shirley MacLaine fan, you'll love it.
Stolid Autobiography Excellently Transmuted.......2006-08-11
The first of many thing to stun me upon viewing the film version of "Postcards From The Edge", was the deft ability of the two-some to take themes concretely listed in the autobiography and express them with such uninhibited vigor and verisimilitude as to make the audience gasp in an ensnaring and intriguing breath. Indeed, Shirley McClain and Meryl Streep perform fantastic acting roles on film, which imparts to the literate viewer who has experienced both written and screenplay materials, the inference that the movie, above all else, is a bit unparralled in tension, sentiment and emotion.
Which is probably why Carrie Fisher's written autobiography was a plummeting flop. The lack of an emotional snatcher and a connective human element could not keep the reader hooked and interested to Fisher's frozen and stodgy book. This film totally redeems the reputation of Fisher's work! It does not stint in involving the audience with the bona fide quandaries and quagmires Carrie was suffering from in her horrendous drug addiction. Meryl Streep's acting is incontrovertibly superb! She does everything comprehensible to express the height of feelings and emotions Fisher was involved with curbing her addiction and concillating her relationship with her mother. McClain's acting, as well, is equally surpassing. The mode in which she assumes the ways and mannerisms of Debbie Reynolds is so plausible, it almost seems as though McClain could have made a subtle transmigration. Excellente!
A scene in the movie which striked me as most remarkable, is when both mother and daughter perform in front of their coteries and close relatives singing songs like "You Don't Know Me" by Ray Charles, and chanting allong to the chords of the piano while dancing and gesturing in an ebullient fit. It is truly astounding how these actors could impersonate the lives of Fisher and Reynolds so well, that I could think of either of the pairs, inverted, that they were alike. It is a very uncanny experience to observe!
The flowing transitions from scene to scene in their relaxed and passive manner are also pleasant qualities the film posseses. The rate at which the scenes change and the camera interation is so precise and astute, it really heightens the culmination of drama and siginificance of emotional content in the film on top of the transcendant acting.
In all which ways, "Postcards From The Edge" is an enticing film that is able to connect audiences everywhere with thematic elements in life that seem so close and familiar. The entirety of the film wraps an individual in a sentimental blanket of realism and authenticity; of the journey of a veritable relationship between mother and daughter, and how it is able to thrive and blossom among the myriad others on Earth with just the right support, attitude and will power.
A Great Inside View Of Hollywood.......2006-02-24
This movie, along with her other collaberation with director Mike Nichols, "Silkwood", are Meryl Streep's two best movies in my opinion. Fully relatable characters, well acted, witty script, and a behind-the-scenes look at Hollywood, and its relationships that is very realistic. This film is very underrated, in my opinion. This film would make a great addition to anyone's collection, for those who like films of a certain standard.
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