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...Shortly after arriving in Afghanistan, Sam's plane is shot down and crashes; he and his men are believed dead, and Grace soon gets the awful news. In fact, he and another Marine have been captured by a Taliban group. They are tortured, forced to spill secrets and, at riflepoint, pushed into a life-or-death dilemma. Back home, Tommy has ingratiated himself into the Cahill home. The girls adore him, and Grace starts to see his sweet side. When, to the family's shock, Sam comes back alive, he can feel different emotional vectors in the house. Grace...
...Melquiades Estrada, he plays Pete Perkins, a ranch foreman whose Mexican friend Melquiades is killed by a hotheaded border-patrol guard (Barry Pepper). As an act of respect, Pete vows to return Mel's body home; as a moral lesson, he resolves to take the killer with him. At riflepoint...
...used to dirges about life's rottenness, sung by grungesters crushed under the weight of money, fame, drugs and women, that any happy music seems like ad jingles. Even female singers, traditionally dainty types, got the message. Doesn't Alanis Morissette sound as if she's performing at riflepoint in a gulag...
...surprising number of local judges cited the Nixon pardon as prompting them to treat offenders leniently. Los Angeles Municipal Judge Gilbert Alston ordered the release of a Viet Nam veteran who had held three hostages at riflepoint in Griffith Park during an alleged "combat flashback." Explained the judge: "If a man who almost wrecked the country can be pardoned, this defendant can be released to get proper treatment." The release was countermanded by a higher judge. County Judge Kirk Smith pardoned two traffic law violators in Grand Forks, N.D., as "an act of clemency" in response to Ford's action...
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