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Jim's Gift

Movie·1996·Family, Adventure, Comedy·1h 34m·Directed by Bob Keen

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A mysterious stranger presents a boy with a VCR that can "play" the past...and the future. How it affects the boy and his struggling middle-class family is the central story.

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