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The Zemeckis effects

RE.VIEW AFTER ALL THE technical challenges Robert Zemeckis has overcome in his directing career, from making a DeLorean fly through the sky and back in time, to making a cartoon rabbit smooch a human man, to building entire 3D fantasy worlds from nothing, his greatest obstacle in his latest film came down to one little thing: Steve Carell’s nose.

In , Carell plays Mark Hogancamp, a small-town man who is a victim of a violent assault. To help himself cope with the trauma, Mark retreats into

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