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TIL: Mick Jackson, director of kooky ‘90s Steve Martin romcom, ‘LA Story’, is the same guy who directed the notoriously trauma-inducing British TV movie about nuclear apocalypse, ‘Threads’. These two films could not be more different if they tried.

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