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List, The (2007)

Release Date:

Friday, August 10, 2007

MPAA Rating:

Rating Reason:

Thematic elements including some peril and brief incidental smoking

Genre:

Drama

Starring:

Malcolm McDowell, Will Patton, Chuck Carrington, Hilarie Burton

Director:

Gary Wheeler

Official Site:

List, The (2007)

Synopsis:

After the battle of Gettysburg, a small group of South Carolina plantation owners realize that the fall of the Confederacy is inevitable. Coming together on a stormy night at the Rice Planter’s Inn in Georgetown, S.C., they formulated a desperate plan to smuggle gold and silver to safe havens in Europe. Out of this meeting is born a secret society known as The Covenant List of South Carolina, Ltd.

One Man opposes them.

Discerning an evil seed in The List, a weather-beaten prophet tries to warn his friends and neighbors. Ignored, he predicts that one of his descendants will call down the judgment of Almighty God on the wicked plans of greedy men.

The List succeeds. Decades pass.

The respective interests of each family are passed through the generations from father to son. The amount of money now under control of The List is enormous. It remains secret; it grows more sinister.

The prophecy lies dormant.

Renny Jacobson, a young Charlotte lawyer, learns that his father has suddenly died. Returning home to Charleston, Renny is shocked to discovery that his father bequeathed his significant estate to charity, only leaving Renny an interest in an unknown, obscure entity – The Covenant List of South Carolina, Ltd.

Renny is contacted by The List.

Along with a beautiful young woman named Jo Johnston. Renny is caught in a web of intrigue, deception, greed and spiritual warfare that reaches from the steamy coasts of South Carolina to the secret vaults of Swiss banks.

List, The (2007) | Review

Trouble Down South

Scott Roche

Imagine if you were a greedy young lawyer, who had just learned that your estranged, wealthy father had died and left you little more than a single gold coin and an old book. That's what faces Renny Jacobson at the beginning of The List, directed by Gary Wheeler and based on a novel by Robert Whitlow. There's more to it than Renny knows, however.

As the film opens we see a group of men at the close of the Civil War, signing a pact and sealing it with blood. Renny's family has been a part of this, the Covenant List of South Carolina, Ltd., for four generations and it bestows benefits far beyond money. As he discovers more about what it is he has truly inherited he meets Jo Johnston, a young lady in the exact same situation. Together they go to the meeting where nearly everything will be revealed. What they discover fuels Renny's lust for money and power and fills Jo with more unanswered questions and a sense of dread.

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•Interview with Gary Wheeler, Scott Roche

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