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The Killing Fields
Summary: A journalist is trapped in Cambodia during Pol Pot's bloody Year Zero cleansing campaign.
Runtime: 2 h 21 min
MPAA: R
Country: United Kingdom
Language: English
Movie budget: $ 14,400,000
Domestic: $ 34,700,291
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