Bruce Greenwood

Disturbing Behavior

  • Title: Disturbing Behavior
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Playing with the idea of mind control at a remote high school on a Washington island community, 1998’s Disturbing Behavior begins with the arrival of Steve (James Marsden), his sister (Katharine Isabelle), and parents (Terry David Mulligan and Susan Hogan) to Cradle Bay. Running away from tough memories of his brother’s (Ethan Embry) suicide, the family attempts a new start in the picturesque surroundings that aren’t nearly as perfect as the local high school guidance counselor and mad scientist (Bruce Greenwood) would have you believe.

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Nowhere Man

  • Title: Nowhere Man – The Complete Series
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“My name is Thomas Veil, or at least it was.  I’m a photographer, I had it all: a wife – Alyson, friends, a career.  And in one moment it was all taken away, all because of a single photograph.  I have it.  They want it.  And they will do anything to get the negative.  I’m keeping this diary as proof that these events are real.  I know they are… They have to be.”

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In the fall of 1995 those words were first spoken as a legion of small but vocal supporters tuned into what was to be one of the best television shows ever made.  Nowhere Man follows photographer Thomas Veil who loses his entire life all in the blink of an eye for reasons he can’t even begin to understand.

In much the same way The Prisoner (check out that review here) dealt with the individual versus society Nowhere Man became a show about a man alone in the world unable to trust anyone or anything even perhaps his own sanity.  A man who clings to his identity and individuality, something that belongs to him and no one else, and refuses to give in and turn over the negatives losing that last true part of himself and admitting defeat to “them”.

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