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In this 2001 thriller, Dr. Alex Cross, played by Morgan Freeman, works the case of a girl who has been kidnapped from her Washington, D.C. school, a place where senators and diplomats send their children. It's up to Cross to profile the kidnapper and find the girl. The movie is based on James Patterson's Along Came a Spider, published in 1992. It was the first in the Alex Cross series. Prime has brought the character back in a new series called Cross, starring Aldis Hodge.
Billionaire Edward Cole (Jack Nicholson) and working class mechanic Carter Chambers (Morgan Freeman) have nothing in common, except they both have been diagnosed with terminal illnesses. While sharing a hospital room, they decide to make a Bucket List of all the things they have ever wanted to do before they die. In the process of completing the list, both of them heal each other, become unlikely friends, and ultimately find the joy in life.
Frank Carden (Morgan Freeman), a notorious assassin, is handed a lucrative contract to kill a highly secretive billionaire. But in a twist of fate, Carden is involved in a car accident during the job, and when his gun is found after he is admitted to a hospital, federal marshals arrest him. Meanwhile, ex-cop Ray Keene (John Cusack) is hiking with his son, Chris (Jamie Anderson), when Carden's cohorts try to spring him from custody, and soon the pair is caught in the crossfire.
Two idealistic young Bostonians lead the 54th Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry, America's first Black regiment in the Civil War. Actors Matthew Broderick and Cabot Elwes play the regiment leaders while actors Morgan Freeman, Andre Braugher, and Denzel Washington play key members of the unit. The film depicts the soldiers of the 54th from the formation of their regiment to their widely praised fighting in the Second Battle of Fort Wagner.
