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Blue Ridge (2020 Film)
Blue Ridge is an American crime drama film, originally released in 2020. The film stars Johnathon Schaech, Sarah Lancaster and Ben Esler. A number of scenes from the film were shot on location in Rabun County, Georgia. Blue Ridge was initially released on the INSP TV network. The film then was released on streaming platform Vudu. Plot The film stars Johnathon Schaech, who takes up the role of Sheriff Justin Wise. of a small mountain town. He moves to the town to be nearer his ex-wife Elli, played by Sarah Lancaster and his young daughter. The sleepy, small-town atmosphere is quickly disrupted after a high-profile murder takes place. Personal grievances interfere with the case in the Blue Ridge Mountains. Justin Wise and his deputies set out to solve the murder and keep the mountain community from falling into a long-held family feud. Cast * Johnathon Schaech as Justin Wise * Sarah Lancaster as Elli Wise * Lara Silva as Deputy Becky Dobson * Ben Esler as Deputy Thompson * Taegen ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Johnathon Schaech
Johnathon Schaech ( ; born September 10, 1969) is an American actor and screenwriter. He has been working as an actor since the early '90s. Early life Johnathon Schaech was born in Edgewood, Maryland, in 1969 to Joe, a Baltimore City law enforcement officer, and Joanne Schaech, a human resources executive. He is Catholic. Schaech has a sister, Renée. He went to University of Maryland, Baltimore County, where he studied economics and took one acting class. Career In 1989, Schaech signed with Wilhelmina West and worked for three years doing commercials and bit parts in movies. He studied under acting teacher Roy London for three and half years until London's death in 1993. 1991–2000 In 1993, Schaech played the lead role in Franco Zeffirelli's period drama ''Sparrow (1993 film), Sparrow'' ( it, Storia di una capinera). Schaech then played drifter Xavier Red in the Gregg Araki film ''The Doom Generation''. In 1995, Schaech's character Leon romanced Winona Ryder's character ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sarah Lancaster
Sarah Lancaster (born February 12, 1980) is an American actress. She is known for her long-running roles as Rachel Meyers in the NBC series '' Saved by the Bell: The New Class'' and Ellie Bartowski in the NBC comedy-spy series ''Chuck'', as well as playing Chloe Grefe in '' Lovers Lane'', Madison Kellner on The WB's ''Everwood'', and Marjorie in ABC's TV series ''What About Brian''. Career Lancaster has appeared on ''Sabrina, the Teenage Witch'', ''Dawson's Creek'', ''That '70s Show'', ''Scrubs'', and ''CSI: Crime Scene Investigation''. She also landed two recurring roles: on The WB series ''Everwood'' as Ephram's love interest Madison Kellner; and on David E. Kelley's FOX series ''Boston Public''. In 2005 she starred in the TV movie ''Living With the Enemy''. Most notably, she appeared as Ellie Bartowski Woodcomb on the NBC series ''Chuck'' from 2007 to 2012. Lancaster has also worked as a jealous girlfriend-turned-serial killer in the movie '' Lovers Lane'', and as the bla ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ben Esler
Ben Esler (born 1982) is an Australian actor and screenwriter, best known for playing Sean McGinnes in the AMC television series ''Hell on Wheels'', as well as for his role as war hero Chuck Tatum in HBO's '' The Pacific''. Esler is a writer and cast member of the upcoming NatGeo and Disney+ series 'A Small Light', which tells the story of the young woman who protected Anne Frank and her family during the Holocaust. Early life Esler was born and raised in Melbourne, Australia, the son of Rosemary and Murray Esler. He is a graduate of the University of Melbourne, where he obtained a master's degree in Applied Ethics as well as a diploma in Professional Ethics. While a student at university, he wrote and performed sketch comedy for the long running University of Melbourne Law Revue. Career Esler began his career appearing in the popular Australian police drama ''Blue Heelers'' and the award-winning ABC Australia made-for-TV movie '' Curtin''. In 2010 Esler appeared in HBO's T ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Crime Drama
Crime films, in the broadest sense, is a film genre inspired by and analogous to the crime fiction literary genre. Films of this genre generally involve various aspects of crime and its detection. Stylistically, the genre may overlap and combine with many other genres, such as Drama (film and television), drama or gangster film, but also include Comedy film, comedy, and, in turn, is divided into many sub-genres, such as Mystery film, mystery, suspense or Film noir, noir. Screenwriter and scholar Eric R. Williams identified crime film as one of eleven super-genres in his Screenwriters Taxonomy, claiming that all feature-length Narrative film, narrative films can be classified by these super-genres. The other ten super-genres are action, fantasy, horror, romance, science fiction, slice of life, sports, thriller, war and western. Williams identifies drama in a broader category called "film type", mystery and suspense as "macro-genres", and film noir as a "screenwriter's pathway" ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rabun County, Georgia
Rabun County () is the north-easternmost county in the U.S. state of Georgia. As of the 2020 census, the population was 16,883, up from 16,276 in 2010. The county seat is Clayton. With an average annual rainfall of over , Rabun County has the title of the rainiest county in Georgia and is one of the rainiest counties east of the Cascades. The year 2018 was the wettest on record in the county's history. The National Weather Service cooperative observation station in northwest Rabun's Germany Valley measured 116.48 inches of rain during the year. During 2020, the Germany Valley NWS station reported a yearly precipitation total of 100.19 inches. History As early as 1760, explorers came to the area now known as Rabun County. In the 18th century, the population of Cherokee in the area was so heavy that this portion of the Appalachian Mountains was sometimes called the "Cherokee Mountains." The early explorers and settlers divided the Cherokee people into three divisions depending ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Clayton Tribune
''The Clayton Tribune'' is a local newspaper in the Clayton, Georgia Clayton is a city in Rabun County, Georgia, United States. Its population was 2,003 at the 2020 census. The county seat of Rabun County, it is in the Blue Ridge Mountains. History The area that eventually became Clayton was called the Dividings .... The newspaper is published weekly and is owned by Community Newspaper Inc. of Athens, Georgia. Enoch Autry is the publisher. The newspaper has about 6,200 in circulation weekly and is a source for local news, businesses, sports, and classifieds in Clayton and in Rabun County, Georgia. History ''The Clayton Tribune'' was founded in 1897 by J.A. Reynolds. He started the newspaper with a single hand press in Rabun County. Reynolds operated the newspaper until 1914, when he sold the newspaper to Frank Singleton. Singleton modernized the company, using a new electrical press. The newspaper's circulation grew to over 7,500. References External links {{offici ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
INSP (TV Network)
INSP (formerly The Inspiration Network; the initialism is sounded out letter-by-letter) is an American digital cable television network that features primarily westerns (both shows and movies) and is headquartered in Indian Land, South Carolina - a suburb of Charlotte, North Carolina. Between 1991 and 2010, INSP was a non-profit ministry focused network. In October 2010, it was re-branded and launched as a socially conservative, commercial-supported family entertainment network (over time becoming centered around westerns), and has Nielsen C3 ratings status. As of 2021, more than 60 million households receive INSP. History INSP was founded in 1978 as the PTL Television Network, a religious television network founded by Christian televangelists Jim Bakker and his wife, Tammy Faye Bakker. The network was the flagship channel for their daily Christian variety program, ''The PTL Club''. The network later became known as the PTL Satellite Network and finally PTL – The Inspiration ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vudu
Vudu is an American digital video store and streaming service owned by Fandango Media, a joint-venture between NBCUniversal and Warner Bros. Discovery. The company offers transactional video on demand rentals and digital purchases of films, as well as integration with digital locker services for streaming digital copies of films purchased as home video at retail. The service initially focused on a digital media player known as the Vudu Box. In 2010, the company began to abandon its hardware business, and focus on integrating its service and associated app platform into third-party devices such as televisions and Blu-ray Disc players. The company has since offered its services online, via mobile apps, and on devices such as digital media players and smart TVs. In 2010, Vudu was sold to Walmart. In 2020, Fandango Media acquired Vudu for an undisclosed amount. History Vudu was founded by Tony Miranz and Alain Rossmann (the creator of WAP). The Vudu Box had been secretly in de ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Blue Ridge Mountains
The Blue Ridge Mountains are a physiographic province of the larger Appalachian Mountains range. The mountain range is located in the Eastern United States, and extends 550 miles southwest from southern Pennsylvania through Maryland, West Virginia, Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee, and Georgia. This province consists of northern and southern physiographic regions, which divide near the Roanoke River gap. To the west of the Blue Ridge, between it and the bulk of the Appalachians, lies the Great Appalachian Valley, bordered on the west by the Ridge and Valley province of the Appalachian range. The Blue Ridge Mountains are known for having a bluish color when seen from a distance. Trees put the "blue" in Blue Ridge, from the isoprene released into the atmosphere. This contributes to the characteristic haze on the mountains and their perceived color. Within the Blue Ridge province are two major national parks – the Shenandoah National Park in the northern secti ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tom Proctor (actor)
Tom Proctor is an American actor. Proctor is best known for such films and television series as '' Lawless'', '' Justified'', the role of Biddee in '' 12 Years a Slave'', ''Django Unchained'', ''Looper'', ''Touched by an Angel'' and the role of Horuz in ''Guardians of the Galaxy''. In June 2018, Tom Proctor released his debut country album entitled "Working Man" by his band Tom Proctor and the A-Listers. Selected filmography *''Windrunner'' (1994) as Convict #1 *'' Halloween: The Curse of Michael Myers'' (1995) as Motorist *''Breaking Free'' (1995) as First Rancher *''Unhook the Stars'' (1996) as Duncan *''Coyote Summer'' (1996) as Little Max *''They Know'' (2006) as The killer *''Skeletons in the Desert'' (2008) as Captain McNamara *''Pandemic'' (2009) as Clay *''Bounty'' (2009) as Carl 'Grunt' Henderson *''The Black Waters of Echo's Pond'' (2009) as Thomas *'' The Road to Freedom'' (2010) as Francias *''Texas Killing Fields'' (2011) as Poacher 2 *''Bending the Rules'' (2012) ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Graham Greene (actor)
Graham Greene, CM (born June 22, 1952) is an Oscar-nominated Canadian actor who has worked on stage, in film, and in TV productions in Canada, the United Kingdom, and the United States. He has achieved international fame for participating in Kevin Costner's ''Dances with Wolves'' (1990), which earned him an Academy Award nomination. Other notable films include ''Thunderheart'' (1992), ''Maverick'' (1994), ''Die Hard with a Vengeance'' (1995), '' The Green Mile'' (1999), '' Skins'' (2002), '' Transamerica'' (2005), ''Casino Jack'' (2010), ''Winter's Tale'' (2014), '' The Shack'' (2017), '' Wind River'' (2017) and ''Shadow Wolves'' (2019). Early life and career Greene is an Oneida born in Ohsweken, on the Six Nations Reserve in Ontario, the son of Lillian and John Greene, who was a paramedic and maintenance man. He lived in Hamilton, Ontario, as a young man. Before moving into acting, he worked as a draftsman, steelworker and welder. He noted:"...I was a welder because once you pu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
