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You've got a movie where the pro-choice family gives their daughter no choice. The pro-life family murders. What seems to be the good mother, the kind of hippie painter, sweet and cute mother has no love for her daughter really.

Ellen Barkin

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Ellen Barkin
Age: 70
Born: 1954
Born: April 16
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Ellen Rona Barkin
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