The Brother from Another Planet (1984)

Subway Card Trick

The Brother (Joe Morton) watches with bewilderment as a young man (Fisher Stevens) performs a card trick on the subway, and ends with a joke.

Directed by John Sayles.

© MGM 2012

Released in 1984 by MGM.

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