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• 16 May 2013

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• Aaron Eckhart stars in director Philipp Stolzl's suspenseful action thriller, "Erased," playing former CIA agent Ben Logan who moves to Belgium with his estranged 15-year-old daughter, Amy (Liana Liberato), to start a new life working as a high-tech security consultant for a multinational corporation in Brussels.
  
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