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TIL that director M. Night Shyamalan's films the Village and Signs were accused of plagiarism. Soon after the movie's release in 2004, reports circulated that The Village's plot and surprise ending were parallel to Margaret Peterson Haddix's first book Running Out Of Time, published in 1995.

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