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Norman sees dead people, but he doesn’t tremble like Haley Joel Osment of “The Sixth Sense.” Instead, the 11-year-old greets the deceased like old friends in directors Sam Fell and Chris Butler’s stop-motion animated comedy. ==I — ST==

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