I have a question mark on top of my old imovie icon

on my older imac there is a question mark on top of the imovie icon and it would not let me open it.

If there is an iMovie in the Applications folder, you may be able to restore
the icon in the Dock. In any event, you could Control + click the iMovie
icon to see if you have other options. If the iMovie is not in Applications,
it may have been moved elsewhere, so do a Spotlight search for it.
And if an iMovie was upgraded but the icon in Dock
goes to an older version, it may also be inop.
Hard to say why this happened.
Good luck & happy computing!

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