The Seven-Ups (1973) Ray Scheider, Tony Lo Bianco. Cop squad gets involved in corruption and kidnapping. Interesting but we've seen it all before. The title refers to the years in the sentence for the latest success of The Seven-Ups, a squad of undercover NY policemen whose collars regularly get sentences of seven years or up. But soon suspicion rears it's head when a 7-up is killed in a sting, that there is a mole amongst them. Car chases, fights and gun battles galore. 6/10 http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0070672/
Crimson Tide (1995) Denzel Washington, Gene Hackman, Viggo Mortensen, Rocky Carroll. Conflict on a nuclear sub between the captain and first officer when the sub gets a message to go to the nuclear option and starts counting down. But protocol says they are to confirm and the system is down. Since both have to use their keys to launch, it is a battle of wills. Captain is relieved of command and from that point on the crew is divided into two camps. Exciting but mainly because of the great cast. 8/10
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0112740/
The Jury (2002 UK TV series) Gerard Butler, Derek Jacoby, Helen McCrory, Mark Strong, Sylvia Syms, Anthony Sher. The entire 3 disc set. Wonderful story, cast, and performances. A young Sikh boy is seen running from a wooded area where a body is found. He is arrested and with lots of circumstantial evidence, charged with murder. This causes turmoil between the Sikh community and the native working class families, of which the victim was a part. The main part of the series is the court case and the jury picked to sit in judgement. We follow each of six, who have turmoil in their lives and the problems they are dealing with and each segment of the trial has the two attorneys laying out their case. We viewers are given the same information as that given in open court. So at the end, we are asked to judge the case. We have only our own conscience to guide us and the evidence laid before this "Jury". Great series. Spent time arguing and retrying it over again with people online at various sites. 9/10. http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0297571/
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