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Bogus (1996)

★ 5.8 · 244 ratings on TMDB

A comedy about losing your heart, finding your inner child and meeting the one friend you've always tried to avoid.

Bogus poster★ 5.8

Recently orphaned, a young boy is taken in by his godmother who is shocked to realize that she can see the boy's imaginary friend: a flamboyant, French magician named Bogus.

DirectorNorman Jewison
CastAl Waxman, Andrea Martin, Barbara Hamilton, Denis Mercier, Gérard Depardieu, Haley Joel Osment
GenresComedy, Family, Fantasy
The emergence reading

Bogus keeps every mind human — it fights its subject at zero distance. The story fights on E8/E9 of the E0–E14 reality ladder.

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