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TIL Jennifer Jason Leigh filed a wrongful death lawsuit against Warner Bros., John Landis and Steven Spielberg after her father, Vic Morrow, was accidentally killed along with two child actors when a helicopter stunt went wrong while filming Twilight Zone: The Movie

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