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Terminator 2: Judgment Day

James Cameron · 1991 CE · Film · Modern / American · Contemporary

A boy living with foster parents in Los Angeles is hunted by an assassin of liquid metal that can take the shape of anyone it touches, and guarded by an older model of the same machine that once came for his mother. She is in a psychiatric hospital, strapped to a bed for telling the truth about the war she says is coming. Cameron spent the budget on effects that reset what the industry attempted.

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