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movie Super Mario Bros.

Released: May 28, 1993
Runtime: 1 hour 44 minutes
Adventure Fantasy Comedy Family

Mario and Luigi, plumbers from Brooklyn, find themselves in an alternate universe where evolved dinosaurs live in hi-tech squalor. They're the only hope to save our universe from invasion by the dino dictator, Koopa.

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