James Ackerman Movies
As one of the many physical and endurance challenges humans choose to take on, this 2,700-mile mountain bike race from Banff, Canada, to the Mexico border provides the story for Ride the Divide. Three bicyclists (executive producer Mike Dion, Matthew Lee, and Mary Metcalf-Collier) travel along the Continental Divide in the Rocky Mountains and face blisters, boulders, and bears in this test of ability and agility. Named the Best Adventure Film at the 2010 Vail Film Festival, Ride the Divide was directed by Hunter Weeks. ~ Rachel Sprovtsoff, Rovi
- 2009
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Renowned jazz trumpeter Wynton Marsalis joins forces with country music legend Willie Nelson for this singular performance, playing music exclusively from the songbook of Ray Charles. The concert was recorded at Lincoln Center's Frederick P. Rose Hall in February of 2009. ~ Cammila Albertson, Rovi
Once more, a wise-guy teenager tries to prove he's smarter than any adult-and nearly destroys the whole world in the process-in WarGames. Computer-game aficionado Matthew Broderick inadverently taps into a hush-hush Pentagon computer, then proceeds to inaugurate his favorite game, "Global Thermonuclear War". What we know, but Broderick doesn't, is that the Pentagon, hoping to eliminate the chancy "human element" in the event of an actual war, has given its computer total, irreversable control over the launching of nuclear weaponry. Broderick and government official Dabney Coleman race against time to reverse the computer's resolve to send bombers to Russia. WarGames scored a hit, especially with teenage filmgoers. ~ Hal Erickson, Rovi
- Starring:
- Matthew Broderick, Dabney Coleman, (more)
