Shazam!

Director: Peter Segal

Release date: 2005

Synopsis:

A 1970s revival of the 1940s Fawcett Comics character Captain Marvel, in which mild-mannered boy Billy Batson discovers that he can call on the powers of an ancient Egyptian wizard.

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