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All the book-based movies and TV shows featuring D.B. Sweeney, ranked
Two ex-Texas Rangers revive their sense of adventure by embarking on a cattle drive to the Montana Territory, accompanied by fellow residents from a small Texas town.
In 1919, the Chicago White Sox are considered among the greatest baseball teams ever assembled; however, the team’s stingy owner, Charles Comiskey, gives little inclination to reward his players for a spectacular season. A dramatization of the Black Sox scandal when the underpaid Chicago White Sox accepted bribes to deliberately lose the 1919 World Series.
Fourteen-year-old Melinda Sordino begins her freshman year in high school and struggles on the first day. She doesn’t have any friends to hang out with, and appears awkward and uncomfortable when speaking to others. Struggling with school, friends, and family, she tells the dark tale of her experiences, and why she has chosen not to speak.
An acclaimed stage performer, Dorothy struggled with the challenge of her color in Hollywood. She beat out many more famous rivals for the role of ‘ ‘Carmen Jones’ ‘, and became the first black woman ever nominated for a Best Actress Academy Award. Seductive and easily seduced, she was born to be a star. Here was a woman who wouldn’t wait in the wings.
In World War II, the youthful crew of the B-17 Flying Fortress bomber known as the Memphis Belle bravely carries out 24 perilous bombing raids over Nazi-occupied Europe. Despite their tender ages, these courageous aviators take to the skies to defend their country, fully aware that the chances of one in three of them not making it back home are high. With just one more mission to complete before returning to the United States, the crew faces their most treacherous challenge yet.
On November 5, 1975 in Snowflake, Arizona, logger Travis Walton, and his co-workers head to work in the White Mountains. Driving home from work, the loggers come across an unidentified flying object. Curious to learn more, Walton gets out of the truck and is struck by a bright beam of light from the object and is sent flying several feet backwards as if pushed by an unseen force.
Conor O’Neill is a gambler who secretly bets $6,000 on his dead father’s account and is now severely in debt with two bookies. In order to repay the debts, he is told by a corporate friend that he must coach a baseball team of troubled African-American fifth grade kids from Chicago’s ABLA housing projects in exchange for $500 each week, for ten weeks.
In Chicago’s Southside, as the events are narrated by Dolemedes, a war rages between two rival gangs: the Spartans, led by rapper/gang leader Demetrius Dupree, nicknamed Chi-Raq and the Trojans, led by gang lord Cyclops. Demetrius’s lover, Lysistrata, grows disillusioned after several outbursts of violence near her, including a shootout at Demetrius’s concert.
Colonel and CIA operative Al Simmons is assigned by his superior to infiltrate a biochemical weapons plant in North Korea, despite Simmons’ growing moral qualms with the nature of his work. Simmons arrives in Hell, where one of the rulers of Hell offers him a Faustian deal: if Simmons becomes his eternal servant and leader of his army in Armageddon, he will be able to return to Earth to see his fiancée, Wanda Blake.
Colonel and CIA operative Al Simmons is assigned by his superior to infiltrate a biochemical weapons plant in North Korea, despite Simmons’ growing moral qualms with the nature of his work. Simmons arrives in Hell, where one of the rulers of Hell offers him a Faustian deal: if Simmons becomes his eternal servant and leader of his army in Armageddon, he will be able to return to Earth to see his fiancée, Wanda Blake.
In this endearing follow-up to the holiday classic, Emma gathers her friends, both old and new,to stage a musical holiday extravaganza in order to raise money for a cherished dog orphanage.