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The List | 
 enlarge | Director: Gary Wheeler
Actors: Pat Hingle, Malcolm Mcdowell, Will Patton, Nicholas Pryor, Tim Ware
Studio: 20th Century Fox
Category: DVD
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Rating:  17 reviews
Sales Rank: 17621
Format: Ac-3, Color, Dolby, Dvd-video, Subtitled, Widescreen, Ntsc
Languages: English (Original Language), English (Subtitled), French (Subtitled), Spanish (Subtitled)
Rating: PG (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Region: 1
Aspect Ratio: 1.85:1
Number Of Discs: 1
Running Time: 108 Minutes
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1
Dimensions (in): 7.5 x 5.3 x 0.6
MPN: FOXD2251807D
UPC: 024543518075
EAN: 0024543518075
ASIN: B0015P2FNO
Theatrical Release Date: 2007
Release Date: June 10, 2008
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Condition: Former rental with center label and minimal rotations. Boxart in great shape also.
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Product Description
Studio: Tcfhe Release Date: 09/09/2008 Run time: 107 minutes Rating: Pg
Amazon.com
The List, a supernatural thriller, begins at the close of the Civil War, when a cabal of Southern businessmen formed a secret pact to preserve their personal wealth. A century and a half later, a frustrated young lawyer named Renny Jacobsen (Chuck Carrington, JAG) discovers he's been cut out of his estranged father's will--but when he opens a locked box, he discovers a far more complicated inheritance that leads him to meet an attractive woman named Jo Johnston (Hilarie Burton, One Tree Hill) and the charming but mephistophelean Desmond Larochette (played by the charming but mephistophelean Malcolm McDowell), who leads the descendants of the original cabal. As Jacobsen learns how his history is tied up in this ominous list of names, he finds himself torn between his morals and his craving for money. Based on the Christian novel by Robert Whitlow, The List does its best to make the most of a low budget, focusing on character and story rather than special effects or visual style. Ultimately it's more about the power of prayer than being scary, though McDowell does his best to foster a sinister atmosphere. While Christian viewers may find the ending affirming, nonbelievers may find it a bit anticlimactic. --Bret Fetzer
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 Three thumbs down - and bloody! December 7, 2008
Jorge X.McKie
Malcom McDowell may not chew up the scenery, but he gives it a good gnawing as the vaguely evil president of The List, a secret society that apparently has unspecified supernatural powers and presumably has done bad things to ensure that good things happen to a large but poorly-defined fund. The director attempts to build tension as our feckless Hero is inducted into this body and discovers that there is skulduggery afoot. It is not very competent or coherent skulduggery, though; vague references to early deaths amond participants and scenes of murder by thumbprint tease the viewer with promises of sophisticated evil and plots within plots that, sadly, are never realized.
The directing is heavy-handed and undisciplined. There is presumably a lesson about the power of faith and prayer buried in the movie, but under Wheeler's direction, this is conveyed largely by cuts to various actors clasping their hands and looking constipated. One attempt at murder-by-thumbprint is thwarted by Mary Beth Peil tracing a cross in saliva on her back door window; it's never quite clear how she understood the attempt was afoot, or how her action stopped it.
I was still waiting with mild interest for the final confrontation between good and evil, the crashing moment when Renny (see "feckless Hero, above") learned enough about what was happening and how to either bring the cabal down or at least extricate himself from its clutches, when the credits rolled and I was left to realize that the climax had come and gone; here I was waiting for Wheeler to bring it all together for me, and he was already lighting his cigarette...
jxm
 GOOD CHRISTIAN MESSAGE November 4, 2008
Diane H. Reed (CASTRO VALLEY,CALIF.)
THIS STORY LINE IS NOT USUALLY MY TYPE OF MOVIE, I AM PLANNING TO SEND A COPY OF IT TO OUR PASTOR AND HIS WIFE,AND TO SHARE .IT HAS A GOOD MESSAGE ABOUT GOOD VERES EVIL DARKNESS AND THE LIGHT. I HAVE WATCHED IT 2 TIMES AND WILL WATCH IT AGAIN.
The List should stay on the Shelf... August 5, 2008
tredog1
5 out of 7 found this review helpful
There's bad movies and then there's just baaaaaad movies. The List happens to be the latter. And it definitely made my list, my list of ten worst movies ever list that is. It lacked any cohesiveness, plot or entertainment. I don't even know why anyone would produce such garbage. The only thing it accomplished was a trifecta of poor writing, acting and directing. Not to mention it was just a lame attempt at religious propaganda. Everyone involved with this movie should be embarrassed to have this to their credits or on their resumes.
Great book makes a good movie August 3, 2008
Film guy NC
1 out of 3 found this review helpful
Loved the book and really liked the movie. Strong cast led by Mcdowell, Burton and Patton. The movie is a cut above most Christian films in the story-telling, filmmaking and acting.
Lame christian propaganda pablum August 3, 2008
T. Muller (NY)
3 out of 10 found this review helpful
It is not the worst film I have ever seen but it is still in the pile of excrement I call religious propaganda which is the marriage of religious comics damning your soul to hell with heinous depictions of the non religious as soulless black eyed disease ridden filth and your garden variety acting no better than a crappy soap opera. Must be religious nut jobs giving this five stars or else the people that worked on the film. Don't waste your time on this tripe.
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