Jamie Linden Movies

A true story of tragedy, hope, and resilience comes to the screen in this sports drama. Huntington, WV, is home to Marshall University, a school where college football is a way of life. Huntington is also a town that learned to deal with tragedy in the fall of 1970 when Marshall's "Thundering Herd" boarded an airliner to return home after a football game in North Carolina. The jet crashed into a hill due to bad weather, and 75 members of Marshall's football squad and athletic staff died that night. The accident dealt a crippling blow to the city of Huntington, as well as Marshall's faculty and student body, and university president Donald Dedmon (David Strathairn) considered abandoning the school's football program. But instead Coach Jack Lengyel (Matthew McConaughey) was recruited from Ohio's College of Wooster to rebuild Marshall's football program. Lengyel was not naïve about the task ahead of him, and working beside Red Dawson (Matthew Fox), an assistant coach who narrowly missed the doomed flight and was one of the program's only survivors, he came to understand his job was not just to put a team on the field, but help a college and a community heal their wounds from the tragic accident. Together Lengyel and Dawson turned a handful of rookies and second-string players into a competitive team who in 1971 showed the world what they could do in a legendary game against Marshall's rivals, Xavier University. Produced with the cooperation of Marshall University and filmed in part on their campus, We Are Marshall also stars Ian McShane, Anthony Mackie, and January Jones. ~ Mark Deming, Rovi

A handful of friends reconnect after a decade and discover how much (and how little) they've changed in this comedy-drama from writer and director Jamie Linden. Ten years after graduating from high school, Jake (Channing Tatum) show up at a class reunion with his longtime girlfriend Jess (Jenna Dewan-Tatum) in tow. Jake was planning to finally propose to Jess over the weekend, but he has second thoughts when he sees Mary (Rosario Dawson), his former girlfriend who is now married to an older man (Ron Livingston). Culley (Chris Pratt), once the school bully, has tried to become a better man and tries to apologize to many of the people he picked on years ago, but after a few drinks his behavior becomes unpredictable, much to the annoyance of his wife Sam (Ari Graynor). Reeves (Oscar Isaac) is the group's success story, a singer-songwriter who has recently scored a hit record, but Elise (Kate Mara), the girl he loved in school, not only isn't aware of his fame, she doesn't realize his best known song is about her. Marty (Justin Long) finds his hard-won maturity goes out the window when he and his old pal AJ (Max Minghella) compete for the attention of Anna (Lynn Collins). And Garrity (Brian Geraghty) has cleaned up his act since graduation, and Andre (Anthony Mackie) isn't about to let him forget about the guy he used to be. Ten Year received its world premiere at the 2011 Toronto International Film Festival. ~ Mark Deming, Rovi