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District 9

2009

Decades after a stranded alien ship left its refugees confined to a squalid Johannesburg slum, a bureaucrat overseeing their forced relocation is exposed to an alien substance that begins to transform him into the most wanted being on earth. Neill Blomkamp's inventive sci-fi allegory.

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