Meet book authors/director of ‘The Fugitive’ at Last Picture House

The Last Picture House is hosting an evening with the authors of a new book, as well as a screening of a 1989 thriller directed by one of them.

“An Evening with Andrew Davis,” the director of Hollywood classics like “The Fugitive,” “Holes” and “Under Siege” will be on Thursday, October 24 at The Last Picture House, 325 E. Second Street in Davenport. Davis and author Jeff Biggers will be in town to celebrate the release of their newest novel, “Disturbing the Bones.” There will be a book signing at 6 p.m., followed by a screening of Davis’ film “The Package”, starring Gene Hackman and Tommy Lee Jones at 7 p.m., followed by a Q&A. Click here for tickets or buy them in the lobby of The Last Picture House.

“Disturbing the Bones” is a propulsive political thriller set in the aftermath of a global nuclear weapons crisis. Filmmaker Michael Mann (“Heat”) calls it “an ingenious page turner.”

“The Package” is a 1989 movie about an experienced Green Beret sergeant Johnny Gallagher (Gene Hackman) who must escort a prisoner, Airborne Ranger Thomas Boyette (Tommy Lee Jones), back to the U.S. Boyette escapes and Gallagher must risk everything to catch him.

Davis is the director and screenwriter of numerous films, including “Holes,” “Under Siege,” “Code of Silence,” “A Perfect Murder” and “The Guardian. His movie “The Fugitive,” was nominated for seven Academy Awards, including Best Picture.

Biggers is the American Book Award-winning author of many investigative journalism, history and theatre pieces, including Reckoning at Eagle Creek, winner of the Delta Prize for Literature and the Brower Award for Environmental Reporting, and the recent In Sardinia. His work has appeared in The New York Times, The Guardian and on NPR.

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