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Dec 2024
44m 18s

A Very Terminator Christmas

Pushkin Industries
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What happens when the biggest movie star in the world directs the smallest Christmas film on basic cable? A holiday miracle. 

Today on the show: The never-before-published, extremely bizarre story of the making of ‘Christmas in Connecticut’... the remake.

 

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