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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. A key motif in that film by this director is an emoticon consisting of two parentheses, a less-than sign, and their reverse. 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. 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 name “Old Dolio.” For 10 points, name this artist-turned-director of Kajillionaire who starred in her own film Me and You and Everyone We Know. (10[1])■END■

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