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- Duke is a mechanic who deals in stolen auto parts. His business is next to a bordello where he maintains several friendships. Several twists lead Duke to take on the establishment and aid the local Hispanic farmworkers.
- In "Landscape Suicide" Benning continues his examination of Americana through the stories of two murderers. Ed Gein was a Wisconsin farmer and multiple murderer who taxidermied his victims in the 1950s. Bernadette Prott was a California teenager who stabbed a friend to death over an insult in 1984. Benning's distanced approach to such grisly material is as far removed as possible from sensationalism, however. Although the acts of murder are both bizarre and violent, Benning dwells on them only minimally, emphasizing instead the details of psychological motivation, which in both cases seem frighteningly mundane. Benning has created a script which is a masterpiece of understated colloquial writing, and the actors he employs to re-enact confessional testimony and incidents recounted in trial transcripts perform with a flatly convincing lack of affect reminiscent of Gary Gilmore. The two monologues are embedded in Benning's characteristic meditations of landscape: long shots of the Wisconsin farmlands, general stores, dirt roads and pick-up trucks, and the carefully tended lawns, swimming pools, sprawling bungalows and malls of the middle-class California suburb. These images are offered in the classically spare mise-en-scene which Benning has perfected in his work as a cinematic poet of the contemporary American environment. Here, in his most accessible film so far, the beautiful, open vistas are dense with the significance of the catastrophes they engendered
- Explores the events sounding Degas Painting of "The Rape" also known as the Interior, by Degas.
- Eddie, an old farmer has a final task he is driven to do for a loved one. Along the way he comes to terms with the truth about his marriage, and accepts mercy.
- 16 average Americans board the Mata Hari only to later salvage supplies, jump overboard and be marooned on the small uncharted deserted island of Pulau Tiga in the South China Sea off the Malaysian Coast of Borneo.
- In Richmond, Huell tours the site of Kaiser Shipyards that built 747 ships during WW II. He talks to some of the men and women who worked there. Also, the SS Red Oak Victory returns to Richmond where it will be restored as a museum.
- We go to a special day camp at the Contra Costa County Fairgrounds in Antioch to work on merit badges.
- Huell tours Eugene O'Neill National Historic Site in the hills above Danville. America's only Nobel Prize-winning playwright lived isolated in his home called Tao House at the height of his career and wrote his final, most memorable plays.