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<LEGEND>
The schedule contains summary financial information extracted from the
Consolidated Financial Statements of AMC Entertainment Inc. and Subsidiaries 
as of and for the fifty-three weeks ended April 3, 1997, submitted in 
response to the requirements to Form 10-K and is qualified in its entirety 
by reference to such financial statements.
</LEGEND>
       
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