Gene Hackman
Author
Pub. Date
2011
Formats
Description
As Jubal Young rides west into New Mexico, he remembers his family's laughter and love, his pa's wisdom, his ma's thick books, his beautiful sister and everything that was defiled by a band of drunken renegades towed along by one man's murderous grudge. Nothing can stop Jubal from climbing a peak of blood and madness: for justice, or payback, or something he can live for--or die for--redeeming.
Author
Pub. Date
c1999
Description
Academy Award–winning actor Gene Hackman spins a cinematic tale of pirates, shipwrecks, and sea adventure. Co-written with Daniel Lenihan, one of America's leading authorities on shipwrecks and diving, Wake of the Perdido Star is a moving story of a young boy's coming of age on the high seas, full of authentic nautical and historical detail. A 19th-century sea adventure in the spirit of Patrick O'Brian, Wake of the Perdido Star is a captivating...
3) Unforgiven
Pub. Date
c2000
Description
Two retired outlaws take up their guns one last time to collect a bounty offered by a group of prostitutes seeking revenge, and they run up against the sadistic sheriff of Big Whiskey, Wyoming.
Author
Pub. Date
2004
Description
This book captures perfectly the Depression - era Midwest in which Gene Hackman was raised --- the grain silos, slaughterhouses, bars, barbershops, and newspaper offices of amall - town and city life. It also explores issues of race, class, truth, and the human consequeneces of war, with a vivid cast of characters whose lives intersect in unexpected ways.
Pub. Date
[2004]
Description
A local plumber is plunged into the national spotlight when he takes on the former President of the United States, who can't believe he's running against a man who installed his toilets. To make matters worse, the ex-president is trying to steal the election -- and the affection of the handyman's girlfriend. Whoever wins, one thing's for sure, this town is not small enough for both of them.
7) Runaway jury
Description
After a man dies in a shooting incident, his wife files a lawsuit against the company that manufactured the gun. Her lawyer argues that the firm in question knew the shop which sold the weapon was not following federal regulations. As the case goes to trial, the firearm manufacturer takes no chances on the outcome, and they hire Rankin Fitch, a "jury consultant" who makes it his business to see that he knows enough about the jurors to be able to guarantee...
9) Get Shorty
Pub. Date
2005, c1995
Description
Loanshark Chili Palmer has done his time as a gangster, so when "business" takes him to Los Angeles to collect a debt from down and out filmmakerHarry Zimm, he talks tough and then pitches Harry a script idea. Everything would be smooth for this cool new producer, if it were't for the drug smugglers and gangsters who won't leave him alone.
Description
Navy flight navigator Lt. Burnett and his pilot are shot down over Bosnia during a routine reconaissance mission after seeing something the Serbian forces didn't want them to see. Once on the ground, deep inside enemy territory, the chase is on as they are tracked by rebel forces who want to make sure they are dead. Meanwhile back on the aircraft carrier, the commander, who wants to mount a rescue mission, must play political games to make it happen....
12) Hoosiers
Description
A basketball coach with a checkered past becomes the new coach of the underdog high school basketball team in a 1951 sleepy Indiana farm town, using methods that infuriate the townspeople.
13) Bat 21
Description
A middle-aged Air Force officer stranded behind enemy lines in Vietnam makes contact with a scout pilot who is determined to rescue him no matter the cost.
14) Antz
Pub. Date
1999
Description
Life is no picnic for Z, a small worker ant with some very big ideas, whose chances with the beautiful Princess Bala are literally one in a billion. When Z convinces his soldier ant buddy to switch places with him, his simple life takes a wild turn.
16) Uncommon valor
Pub. Date
[2017]
Description
A man tries to find his son, who is listed as "missing in action" in Laos, with the help of five of his son's Marine buddies.
18) The Firm
Description
A brilliant and ambitious Harvard Law grad joins a small, prosperous law firm in Memphis, and is soon confronted by FBI agents with evidence of corruption and murder within the firm.
19) The Birdcage
Pub. Date
c1996
Description
The story of a middle-aged gay couple's comic encounter with a self-righteously straight and conservative family: Armand and Albert reluctantly accept young Val's intention to marry the daughter of a conservative Senator, but when the fiancee's family comes to visit, the whole household is turned upside down.
20) The Package
Series
Pub. Date
c2000
Description
When Sgt. Johnny Gallagher is assigned the task of delivering a military prisoner to the U.S. for court martial, little does he know that they will be assaulted, and his prisoner will disappear. Gallagher soon finds a trail of clues leading to an international conspiracy- one that will change the course of mankind.
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