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A Movie That Needs to Be Made

  • Jeffrey Overstreet

Jeffrey Overstreet

25 May 2004
Filed under: On Movies & Media • Response • Jake DeShazer • Make This Movie • Journal Entry • Seattle Pacific University
A Movie That Needs to Be Made

It's been made before, but rarely seen. This true story has a plot that should captivate the imagination of some filmmakers out there . . .

It’s the story of Jake DeShazer.

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Today, Cairns shares a particularly pointed poem for the President.
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SDG picks the best MCU movie

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My favorite film critic, Steven D. Greydanus, has announced his pick — and I’m quite happy with it. A
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The Boy Who Believed in Airplanes: reflections on Empire of the Sun (1987)

The Boy Who Believed in Airplanes: reflections on Empire of the Sun (1987)

In my last Good Letters column for Image, I turned to Steven Spielberg's Empire of the Sun as a way to express my vision and gratitude.
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