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Heath Ledger's final movie a tough sell


August 15, 2008 Heath Ledger has helped propel "The Dark Knight" to the top of the boxoffice. For U.S. distributors, the quirky Terry Gilliam film -- centering on parallel worlds, a theater troupe and a devil-dealing 1,000-year-old doctor -- presents a conundrum. The director has been behind a series of boxoffice flops and hasn't had a hit since "Twelve Monkeys" in 1995.

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