# AS2 - communicating from a loaded Movie back to the container movie

**URL:** <https://forum.kirupa.com/t/as2-communicating-from-a-loaded-movie-back-to-the-container-movie/316673>\
**Category:** flash\
**Created:** [November 29, 2010, 3:07pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/as2-communicating-from-a-loaded-movie-back-to-the-container-movie/316673 "2010-11-29T15:07:54Z")\
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**Author:** ![Skarab](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ba8739/32.png) [@Skarab](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/Skarab)\
**Post date:** [November 29, 2010, 3:07pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/as2-communicating-from-a-loaded-movie-back-to-the-container-movie/316673/1 "2010-11-29T15:07:54Z")

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I am using “loadMovie” to load external swfs into a movie clip holder. I want the “close” button on the loaded movie to unload the swf and also communicate back to the main movie but I can’t seem to get it to work. I have tried \_parent, \_root, and variations of both but to no avail.

Nevermind, it seems \_parent.\_parent is working.