Curtis Ending Explained [SPOILER!]

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Curtis Plot Summary and Synopsis

While scouring the streets of Detroit for his lost championship ring, a former basketball star, suffering from mental illness, finds himself stuck in a time warp and unable to come to grips with life as it is now.

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