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I loved it, it's such fun. I like that people are seeing it and then talking about it. Like when I took my son and his friends to see Napoleon Dynamite last year, we spent the next six weeks trying to explain it.

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Robert Downey, Jr.
Age: 59
Born: 1965
Born: April 4
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