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TIL David Cronenberg's early horror film, The Brood, was his answer to the optimistic divorce drama Kramer vs. Kramer released the same year. He also intentionally cast the main couple in the film to resemble Cronenberg and his wife. He considered it his "most cathartically satisfying film."

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