Word: fords
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...July 17 in Pine Hills, Florida, Philip Chandler, 16, emerged from a local barbershop and was about to drive off in his parents' 1986 Ford Mustang when he was accosted by two teenagers, forced into the car's trunk and taken along for a long joyride. Five hours later, Chandler was found in a parking lot 30 miles away, suffering from dehydration and comatose from the 130 degrees heat in the trunk. After two weeks he regained some consciousness, but doctors fear he may have suffered irreversible brain damage. "He wasn't in the wrong place at the wrong time...
...Fugitive" centers around Dr. Richard Kimble, played by Harrison Ford. Dr. Kimble is a prominent vascular surgeon working in Chicago's Cook County Hospital. He comes home one night from a late surgical emergency to find a one-armed intruder lurking in his home. After a brief scuffle, the one-armed man escapes. The stranger has beaten Dr. Kimble's wife (played by Sela Ward) who dies in her husband's arms...
...heavyweights Ford and Jones were absolutely fantastic. But what did you expect? Harrison Ford only has six of the highest grossing pictures of all time under his belt, and Jones has co-starred in such films as "JFK" and "The Firebirds...
...Line of Fire. Well, here comes another movie that deploys similar elements, including deeply satisfying star performances and high-energy directorial craftsmanship. The difference between them arises from a couple of simple role reversals. In The Fugitive the criminal is actually an innocent man: Richard Kimble (Harrison Ford), a surgeon falsely accused of murdering his wife. The lawman -- a U.S. marshal named Sam Gerard (Tommy Lee Jones) -- is the character in the grips of a dangerous obsession, namely to capture the eponymous escapee...
Busy fellow, and nobody plays harried better than Harrison Ford. He plays other things well too, notably in the scene in which, as he is interrogated by the police, he comes to realize that he is their chief suspect. Grief, outrage, incomprehension, terror -- what a rich mixture of emotions he registers in a matter of seconds. Jones may have a somewhat simpler line to play in the movie, but he is a marvelously incisive actor, and he brings his character right up to the edge of the demonic without falling into the psychotic abyss. He is playing the role...