This based-on-a-true-story film can serve as a tonic for those jaded by so much bad news from politics, shootings, and the wars in the Middle East and Ukraine. Though highly embellished, director Jon Gunn’s reminds us that here are a lot of good people out there who care about their fellow humans. There is …
Land (2021)
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The 12th Man (2017)
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The Great Alaskan Race (2019)
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The Hateful Eight (2016)
A few years after the Civil War 8 hateful characters sit out a blizzard at a Wyoming wayside station, where they display racist hostility & bloody violence.