LMGI COMPASS
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THE FIRST LADY
Spanning the years between 1890 and 2016,
this docudrama imagines Eleanor Roosevelt,
Betty Ford and Michelle Obama as they struggle
to keep their personal lives out of the public eye
while championing their causes and supporting
their husbands who occupy the Oval Office.
Period residences across Georgia were used
for the Roosevelts' Campobello compound in
Nova Scotia, the Obamas' Chicago home and
the Fords' Rancho Mirage House. A busy unit
traveled the United States, filming exteriors of
Palm Springs, Chicago's Loop and shoreline,
the Roosevelts' Hyde Park estate and city home,
and iconic buildings in Washington D.C.—the
White House, National Mall, US Capitol and US
Supreme Court—to place the Georgia locations
in their proper historic settings and bring them
to life.
The Tourist
The First Lady
Under the Banner of Heaven
THE TOURIST
A car accident leaves a Northern Irishman
in Australia with no memory of who he
is, why he is there and who wants him
dead. This psychological thriller unfolds
against the vast yet beautiful expanse of
the Australian Outback, an indifferent and
uncaring environment that provides no help
or protection. The locales track his frantic
journey from arid barren land to modern
hotels in his quest to jog his recall. Barreling
across open roads and through the small
dusty towns of Southern Australia, the bizarre
unraveling of memory provides offbeat humor
and touches of the surreal heightened by the
dramatic landscape.
UNDER THE BANNER OF HEAVEN
Based on the bestselling book by Jon Krakauer,
this true crime drama recounts the gruesome
murders of a young Mormon mother and her
baby in their home near Salt Lake City, UT,
in the 1980s. Set against the stark western
slope of the American Rockies in Utah, the
series carves itself out on location in the
Canadian Rockies near Alberta, Canada. The
cold steep rigid slopes in the background, the
meticulously chosen period structures and
quaint neighborhoods, the forested hideouts,
all reinforce the veracity of the events which cut
back-and-forth between the search for the killer
and scenes from the founding of the Mormon
faith 100 years before.
