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Checking Out is a film of genre Drama released in USA on 15 september 2006 with Peter Falk
Checking Out (2006)
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Add to a movie listChecking Out is a 2005 feature film directed by Jeff Hare and written by Richard Marcus and Allen Swift.
Actors
Peter Falk
(Morris Applebaum)
Laura San Giacomo
(Flo Appelbaum)
Judge Reinhold
(Barry Apple(baum))
David Paymer
(Ted Applebaum)
Jeffrey D. Sams
(Dr. Sheldon Henning)
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