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Til that Sir Sean Connery last movie was a 2012 animated film called “Sir Billi”. About a retired veterinarian (Sir Sean Connery) living in a remote Scottish village encounters a goat who thinks he’s a dog, an Admiral who’s afraid of the water, and a beaver who was raised by rabbits.

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