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In 'JCVD,' Jean-Claude Van Damme is being himself

On the face of it, these stars are just being themselves

'Put him with the others," says a bank robber, as Jean-Claude Van Damme enters a bank and stumbles upon a heist-in-progress.

"Are you nuts?" asks another robber. "It's Jean-Claude Van Damme!"

Things get complicated from there in the self-referential action farce "JCVD," which opened Friday and stars JCVD as ... himself....

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