The Lateef Test: Does This Movie Pass the Proprietary Line Test?

This does, again, not pass the Lateef test as most films in the 90s did not. The mission director who does get a lot of lines, he is not he does in the script. They have to have said contact at some point here. First contact, they didn't say first contact. Is there a check-offs anything? There's so much. Many check-offs things. Even the Palmer conversation where Ellie, he says like he saw God and she said, is there a chance you needed to have this experience? I feel like that's check-offs. Small moves, Ellie from her dad. That's the beginning and then the end. One more movies are

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