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Love Is Strange
2014 · Film · 98 min
Directed by Ira Sachs
After 39 years together, Ben and George finally tie the knot, but George loses his job as a result, and the newlyweds must sell their New York apartment and live apart, relying on friends and family to make ends meet.
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For example, go to http://www.imdb.com
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Btw, you'll notice that you can find the string "Strange" via F12 (Developer Tools). That's because the F12 inspector shows the html after the DOM has been dynamically modified by javascript whereas Ctrl+U does not.