Terry Kinney
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Difficult, prickly people seem to be everywhere: At work, at home, in restaurants, on the highway, every-friggin'-where! And there is an art to dealing with them. You can learn this art, so problem-people become easier to manage and have less impact on your life and work. Working With Porcupines gives you 24 easily learned proven tips, techniques and hacks for dealing with impossible bosses, idea-stealing work colleagues, almost-impossible relatives...
Pub. Date
2023.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (99 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
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Cohen Film Collection presents a newly restored and rarely seen film directed by Raphael D. Silver. A tale of hubris and hope, A WALK ON THE MOON finds an idealistic Peace Corps volunteer as he attempts to bring his version of progress to a rural Colombian village. Featuring stunning color cinematography by Adam Greenberg.
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (95 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
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LUMINOUS MOTION is a dreamlike and erotically charged thriller from critically acclaimed director Bette Gordon (Variety). Deborah Kara Unger (The Game) stars as an unnamed hustler who seduces and robs gullible men while criss-crossing the country with her ten-year-old son Phillip (Eric Lloyd, The Santa Clause). Phillip grows accustomed to this outlaw life on the road, but his world is turned upside-down when his mother settles in the suburbs with...
Pub. Date
[2013]
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (107 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Corporate salesman Steve Butler has been dispatched to the rural town of McKinley with his sales partner to offer much-needed relief to the economically hard-hit residents in exchange for drilling rights to their properties. As they grapple with a surprising array of both open hearts and closed doors, the outsiders soon discover the strength of an American small town at a crossroads.
5) Mile 22
Pub. Date
[2018]
Physical Desc
1 videodiscs (1 hr., 35 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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An elite American intelligence officer, aided by a top-secret tactical command unit, tries to smuggle a mysterious police officer with sensitive information out of the country.
Strong violence and language throughout.
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Howard Kapostash has not spoken in thirty years. The small repertory of gestures and simple sounds that he uses to communicate lead most people to assume he is disturbed. No one understands that Howard is still the same man he was before his tragic injury. But when he agrees to help an old girlfriend by opening his home to her nine-year-old son, the presence of this nervous, resourceful boy in his life transforms Howard utterly. He is afforded a rare...
7) Orphans
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Growing up in ramshackle house in Philadelphia, two orphan brothers become products of their environment. Philip remains timid and attempts to stay out of trouble, while his brother, Treat, becomes a violent and thieving scoundrel. However, when their paths cross with Harold, one of the underbelly's many criminals, Philip and Treat are irreconcilably torn apart.