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In Richard Donner's blockbuster, the Superman myth is well told, from his birth on the doomed planet Krypton to his childhood in a small Kansas town and beyond. After he comes of age, young Clark Kent, as his Earth parents have named him, learns the truth of his alien birth on a voyage of discovery to the Arctic. It is there .. Read more

Starring Christopher Reeve, Gene Hackman, Marlon Brando, Margot Kidder
Director Richard Donner
Genres Action/Adventure

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