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5 minutes shorter in Canada?


Why would this movie be 5 minutes shorter when released in Canada? Did they say something derogatory about hockey? I just saw this movie on TCM Canada and it was again the shortened version. What's up with that?

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TCM played it last month in their Cagney festival and it timed out to 80 minutes. What's the deal with the missing 5 minutes? Anyone know?

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they use metric minutes in canada

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That is the funniest Goddamn thing I've read in the bulletin boards on this site, ever.

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ROTFL!

But seriously, in some countries, film speed is faster than in others, so a film will have the same content, but be a different length, than in another country.

Then again, both the U.S. and Canada use NTSC, so I'm not sure why they'd be different.

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