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It’s no ‘Nemo,’ but Pixar’s ‘Luca’ will leave you smiling from gill to gill

Pixar’s latest release, “Luca,” is a fish-out-of-water story. Literally. 

The titular character (voiced by Jacob Tremblay) is a young sea monster so immersed in his watery environment that he isn’t even aware of the existence of dry land. By day, Luca is an underwater shepherd who uses his crook to herd a school of fish grazing on a patch of seagrass. (If you think that’s odd, wait until you hear the

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