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Parents -- Who Needs Them?

Jan 01, 1973 | IMDB 0

10 min Watch Now

Documentary, Family

Jimmy learns to appreciate his parents when a hand puppet dressed as a jester visits him up in the middle of the night and renders him invisible.

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