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Luke Skywalker: I am a Jedi, like my father before me.

Luke Skywalker has returned to

his home planet of Tatooine in

an attempt to rescue his

friend Han Solo from the

clutches of the vile gangster

Jabba the Hutt.



Little does Luke know that the

GALACTIC EMPIRE has secretly

begun construction on a new

armored space station even

more powerful than the first

dreaded Death Star.



When completed, this ultimate

weapon will spell certain doom

for the small band of rebels

struggling to restore freedom

to the galaxy...

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Return of the Jedinote Also known as Star Wars: Episode VI - Return of the Jedi is the sequel to The Empire Strikes Back and the final film in the Star Wars original trilogy. It is directed by Richard Marquand, with the screenplay written by Lawrence Kasdan and George Lucas and the story written by Lucas. It was released on May 25, 1983.

Luke Skywalker (Mark Hamill), Leia Organa (Carrie Fisher), Lando Calrissian (Billy Dee Williams) and company confront Jabba the Hutt to rescue Han Solo (Harrison Ford), still frozen in carbonite. With the gauntlet being thrown down by the Empire, the Rebel Alliance regroups to deal with the building of a new Death Star. A strike team is sent in to disable its defenses, while the main fleet engages the superstructure in orbit. Luke finds himself drawn to conclude his rivalry with Darth Vader (David Prowse, with his voice dubbed by James Earl Jones) and confronts the Emperor (Ian McDiarmid) himself, with the fate of the galaxy and the Jedi legacy in the balance.

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The film also stars Anthony Daniels as C-3PO, Kenny Baker as R2-D2, Peter Mayhew as Chewbacca and Frank Oz as Yoda.

The film is followed in production order by The Phantom Menace and chronologically by The Force Awakens.

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