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'Special' pickup for Magnolia


February 15, 2008 Magnolia Pictures' genre arm, Magnet Releasing, has picked up North American rights to the comedy "Special," starring Michael Rapaport as a man who becomes convinced he's a superhero. Rapaport plays a comic book-obsessed meter maid who enters a clinical trial for a new drug that inhibits self-doubt. Peck plays one of his buddies and Blackthorne plays a drug company executive.

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