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Joanie 4 Jackie

No Place Like Home #1 and #2

12m

Directed by Karen Yasinsky • 1999 • United States

Over the course of these two stop-motion films, made by Karen Yasinsky in 1999, a woman—with the help of a pair of ruby-red slippers—delves into her fantasies and confronts good and evil before returning safely to the reality of her life.

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