Brian Dennehy
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Two stories intertwine dealing with the different meanings of justice for the rich and poor in America. Jack investigates the death of three Russian immigrants against the apathy of his department, while the son of a prominent politician commits vehicular homicide and tries to broker a secret deal.
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Jack Reed is back in the next thrilling installment of his series! When a young topless dancer turns up dead seemingly tied to Win Carter a powerful car salesman with deep ties to people in high places. Sgt. Jack Reed is ordered to bury the case, but he has other plans and will stop at nothing to bring her killer to justice. Fighting a corrupt Lieutenant, and complacent District Attorney's Office, it'll be an uphill battle for Jack Reed, but he is...
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What first seemed like to be a failed drive by shooting, quickly becomes a much larger case when Sgt. Jack Reed's partner is killed by the same street thugs returning to finish off their intended target. At the center of this case seems to be a businessman who is making off large payments to storybook characters.
7) Fail Safe
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2000.
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English
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George Clooney stars as a U.S. fighter pilot mistakenly commanded to start a nuclear war with Russia. Now he must be stopped--at any cost--to avert Armageddon in the chillingly realistic movie. Colonel Jack Grady (Clooney) commands a fighter squadron ordered to destroy Moscow with nuclear warheads as a result of a glitch in a military computer. With the help of a translator named Buck (Noah Wyle), the President of the United States (Oscar winner Richard...
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Both a revealing self-portrait and dramatic fictional chronicle of his final African safari, Ernest Hemingway's last unpublished work was written when he returned from Kenya in 1953. Edited by his son Patrick, who accompanied his father on the safari, True at First Light offers rare insights into the legendary American writer.
A blend of autobiography and fiction, the book opens on the day his close friend Pop, a celebrated hunter, leaves Ernest...
9) Every Day
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Liev Schreiber (Salt) heads an all-star cast in this warm and wise comic drama as Ned, a loving husband and devoted father dealing with life's curveballs. He's got a stressed-out wife (Helen Hunt, As Good As It Gets) an independent teenage son (Ezra Miller, City Island), and an embittered father-in-law (Brian Dennehy, Silverado) who's turning his home upside down. Ned's job writing a scandalous TV series for a demanding boss (Eddie Izzard, Valkyrie)...
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An entitled young man with wanderlust must prove himself worthy of a new stipulation in his grandmother's will after her passing. The question before the law firm responsible for its execution is which will come first: the demise of the estate, or the realization of the heir that dealing with the past is the only path to true freedom?
11) Driveways
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A lonesome boy accompanies his mother on a trip to clean out his late aunt's house, where he ends up forming an unexpected friendship with the retiree who lives next door.
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Marco Polo volume 2
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Accompanying two priests to the East to ostensibly convert the court of Kublai Khan to Christianity, Venetian trader Marco Polo eventually pushes bravely forth alone toward a fabled heartland. Accepted as an envoy into Khan's court, Marco Polo advances as a Mongol grandee where for twenty extraordinary years he is marooned on the far side of the world. What he eventually brings back with him to the West is a chronicle that changed history.
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Marco Polo volume 1
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English
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Accompanying two priests to the East to ostensibly convert the court of Kublai Khan to Christianity, Venetian trader Marco Polo eventually pushes bravely forth alone toward a fabled heartland. Accepted as an envoy into Khan's court, Marco Polo advances as a Mongol grandee where for twenty extraordinary years he is marooned on the far side of the world. What he eventually brings back with him to the West is a chronicle that changed history.
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Gulf War volume 1
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Chris Small (Matt Keeslar) is the model U.S. soldier: proud, strong and patriotic. But no training could have prepared him for the sights and sounds of Desert Storm -- oil-fire clouds on the horizon, scud missile fragments imbedded in the sand, fly-blown camel carcasses and chemical alarms blaring throughout the night – images still stay with him when he returns to Memphis, greeted by cheering family and friends.
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Larry McMurtry's Dead Man's Walk volume 3
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English
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After surrendering to the Mexican army, the expedition's captors march them across 500 miles of desert to New Mexico.
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Larry McMurtry's Dead Man's Walk volume 2
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A series of disasters overtakes Colonel Cobb and his ambition to annex Sante Fe including dust storms, prairie fires, Indians, and the Mexican army.
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Larry McMurtry's Dead Man's Walk volume 1
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Young Texas Rangers Woodrow Call and Augustus McRae join with military expedition whose goal it is to annex Sante Fe on behalf of the new Texas Republic.
18) Knight of Cups
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A visceral journey through the eyes of an uninspired screenwriter living in Los Angeles struggling with the death of his brother and seeking distraction in the company of women.