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In a film by this director, stars appear on the screen as two women hiding in a pitch-dark bathroom wonder if an earthquake is a sign of the apocalypse. The protagonist of a film by this director watches a goldfish in a plastic bag fall off a car while driving an old Hispanic man to meet his bedridden girlfriend. (-5[1])A key motif in that film by this director is an emoticon consisting of two parentheses, (15[1])a less-than sign, (15[2])and their reverse. (15[1])In the final shot of a film by this director, a screen displaying a cost of 525 dollars is framed behind two women kissing at a (*) Target checkout counter. (10[1])In a film by this director, two biracial children spend their time in an online chat room while ignoring their shoe salesman father, played by John Hawkes. A film by this director centers on two clumsy L.A. con artists and their sullen-voiced daughter, who has the strange (10[1])name “Old Dolio.” (10[1])For 10 points, (10[1])name this artist-turned-director of Kajillionaire who starred in her own film Me and You and Everyone (10[1])We Know. (10[1])■END■

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