John Maclaren
Featured Characters
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Race
Jesse Owens' quest to become the greatest track and field athlete in history thrusts him onto the world stage of the 1936 Olympics, where he faces off against Adolf Hitler's vision of Aryan supremacy.
Pawn Sacrifice
American chess champion Bobby Fischer prepares for a legendary match-up against Russian Boris Spassky.
Exploding Sun
A historic space launch triggers a solar-storm event that could have cataclysmic repercussions for the planet if it isn't stopped in time - and time is running out.
Upside Down
In an alternate universe where twinned worlds have opposite gravities, a young man battles interplanetary prejudice and the laws of physics in his quest to reunite with the long-lost girl of his dreams in this visually stunning romantic adventure that poses the question: what if love was stronger than gravity?
Jesse Stone: Benefit of the Doubt
Jesse Stone comes out of involuntary retirement after the new chief who replaced him was blown up, along with another officer in their police car. Jesse is forced to solve the crime on his own since all the other officers have quit.
Metal Tornado
An American company inadvertently unleashes a magnetic vortex on an unprepared world.
Wargames: The Dead Code
Computer hacker Will Farmer (Lanter) engages a government super-computer named Ripley in an online terrorist-attack simulation game. Little does Farmer know that Ripley has been designed to appeal to potential terrorists, and certain software glitches have in turn made him become paranoid.
Like Mother, Like Daughter
Dawna Wilkins is a strong, independent and self-made woman. Married and divorced at an early age, she raised her daughter Emily by herself and put herself through school, now to become the well respected head of the Hanson, an ancient art museum.
Jesse Stone: Death in Paradise
A body's found on the shore of a lake. Police Chief Jesse Stone starts an investigation. It turns out to be a pregnant high school student. There's also a case of a persistent wife beater. Jesse starts seeing a shrink and dating.
Maurice Richard
The story of Quebec's most beloved hockey player, Maurice "The Rocket" Richard, focusing on the struggles of a French Canadian in the National Hockey League dominated by Anglophones.
Capote
Truman Capote (Hoffman), during his research for his book In Cold Blood, an account of the murder of a Kansas family, the writer develops a close relationship with Perry Smith, one of the killers.
The Day After Tomorrow
A climatologist tries to figure out a way to save the world from an abrupt global climate shift. He must get to his young son in New York, which is being taken over by a new ice age
The Weight of Water
A newspaper photographer researches an 1873 double homicide and finds her own life paralleling that of a witness who survived the tragic ordeal.
Double Jeopardy
Libby seems to be living a perfect life until she wakes up one morning after apparently killing her husband. But she has no recollection of the murder. Is it amnesia, or was she framed?
Savior
A hardened mercenary in the Foreign Legion begins to find his own humanity when confronted with atrocities during the fighting in Bosnia.