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A highway patrol is either a police unit created primarily for the purpose of overseeing and enforcing traffic safety compliance on roads and highways, or a detail within an existing local or regional police agency that is primarily concerned with such duties.
Duties of highway patrols or traffic police may include the following:
In Argentina, traffic policing is the responsibility of the Argentine National Gendarmerie.
In Australia, traffic policing is the responsibility of the state police forces. Each force has its own traffic sections, often a local section in each area and a statewide section.
In Brazil, traffic policing is the responsibility of state and federal police forces accordingly to the highway administration status. State administered highways (usually shorter, within state borders, two-way, single lane, lower traffic) are policed by a branch of the Military Police forces, called State Highway Military Police. At the same time Federal highways and roads (longer, crossing state borders, some double lane and high-traffic) are the responsibility of the Federal Highway Police.
Actors: Pamela B. Green (miscellaneous crew), Sara Holmes (miscellaneous crew), Caroline Rhea (actress), Heather Locklear (actress), Christophe Beck (composer), Al Cerullo (miscellaneous crew), Chris Noth (actor), Hilary Duff (actress), Philip Akin (actor), Rick Cordeiro (actor), Kym Whitley (actress), Gerry Mendicino (actor), Mike O'Malley (actor), Jarik Van Sluijs (miscellaneous crew), Peter Pamela Rose (miscellaneous crew),
Plot: Teenager Holly Hamilton is tired of moving every time her single mom Jean has another personal meltdown involving yet another second-rate guy. To distract her mother from her latest bad choice, Holly conceives the perfect plan for the perfect man.. an imaginary secret admirer who will romance Jean and boost her shaky self-esteem. When the virtual relationship takes off, Holly finds herself having to produce the suitor, borrowing her friend's charming and handsome Uncle Ben as the face behind the e-mails, notes and gifts. Holly must resort to increasingly desperate measures to keep the ruse alive and protect her mom's newfound happiness, almost missing the real perfect man when he does come along.
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Plot: A suicidal older man, Gordon Trout, is kidnapped for his car and money by three runaway teenagers who live on the streets. Their experiences together make them a close-knit family, but the nature of the crime committed could tear them apart. The intricacies of these complex relationships are explored through an emotional story with twists and turns.
Keywords: independent-filmActors: Armin Shimerman (actor), Leslie Nielsen (actor), Elizabeth Ashley (actress), Robert Klein (actor), Grant Heslov (actor), Robert Stack (actor), Eva La Rue (actress), Tate Donovan (actor), Dorothy Amos (costume designer), Andrew Sugerman (miscellaneous crew), Maree Cheatham (actress), Lawrence Kasanoff (producer), Steve Pink (actor), John D'Andrea (composer), Robert Romanus (actor),
Genres: Comedy,Actors: Roy Scheider (actor), Adam Baldwin (actor), Bill Conti (composer), Marco Perella (actor), Sanford Hampton (miscellaneous crew), James Jeter (actor), Craig Busch (miscellaneous crew), Craig Busch (actor), Edward M. Abroms (editor), Cooper Huckabee (actor), Eric Red (writer), Eric Red (director), Suzanne Savoy (actress), Ron Jackson (actor), Harley Cross (actor),
Plot: A boy kidnapped by two mismatched hitmen puts them at each other's throats while being driven to their employers, possibly to be killed. Cohen, an older professional becomes increasingly irritated with his partner Tate, a brutish killer, when their prisoner uses unnatural guile and resourcefulness to play them off against each other.
Keywords: assassination, betrayal, bleeding-to-death, blood-spatter, bloodbath, blowing-out-tire, brutality, bulletproof-vest, character-name-in-title, child-hostageActors: Leslie Hope (actress), Paul Leder (director), William Bryant (actor), Joe Santos (actor), Greg Mullavey (actor), Carmen Zapata (actress), Catherine Keener (actress), Mimi Leder (producer), Bernard White (actor), Donovan Leitch (actor), John D'Andrea (composer), Ellen Gerstein (actress), Barbara Bosson (actress), Sondra Currie (actress), Gary Werntz (actor),
Plot: When wealthy real estate developer Richard Tate seizes land belonging to a Native American tribe for his next construction project, a group of young men from the tribe decide to kidnap Tate's daughter Allison as a means of persuading her father to abandon the project and return their land. As time drags on with no resolution in sight, Allison begins to sympathize with the plight of her captors and joins them in their fight against her father.
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Plot: David and Linda Howard are successful yuppies from LA. When he gets a job disappointment, David convinces Linda that they should quit their jobs, liquidate their assets, and emulate the movie Easy Rider, spending the rest of their lives travelling around America...in a Winnebago! (This is a kind of large, luxurious mobile home which suits a 1980's yuppie more than the counterculture dropout approach of Easy Rider.) His idealized, unrealistic plans soon begin to go spectacularly wrong.
Keywords: 1980s, advertising, advertising-agency, bathrobe, bicycle, bloody-nose, cartoon-on-tv, casino, crossing-guard, damActors: Carl Lumbly (actor), Read Morgan (actor), John Lithgow (actor), James Keane (actor), Ronald Lacey (actor), Christopher Lloyd (actor), Jonathan Banks (actor), John Lithgow (actor), Clancy Brown (actor), Jeff Goldblum (actor), Matt Clark (actor), Dan Hedaya (actor), John Ashton (actor), Vincent Schiavelli (actor), Robert Ito (actor),
Plot: Neurosurgeon/Rock Star/Superhero Buckaroo has perfected the oscillation overthruster, which allows him to travel through solid matter by using the eighth dimension. The Red Lectroids from Planet 10 are after this device for their own evil ends, and it's up to Buckaroo and his band and crime-fighting team The Hong Kong Cavaliers to stop them.
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Keywords: bellman, bootlegger, chambermaid, con-artist, confidence-game, counterfeiting, double-cross, embezzlement, extortion, forbidden-hollywoodFrom Badlands: A Tribute to Bruce Springsteen's Nebraska
My name is Joe Roberts I work for the state
I'm a sergeant out of Perrineville barracks number 8
I always done an honest job as honest as I could
I got a brother named Franky and Frank he ain't no good
Now ever since we was young kids it's been the same come down
I get a call on the shortwave Franky's in trouble downtown
Well if it was any other man, I'd put him straight away
But when it's your brother sometimes you look the other way
CHORUS 1:
Yeah, me and Franky laughing and drinking nothing feels better than blood on blood
Takin' turns dancin' with Marie as the band played Night of the Johnstown Flood
I catch him when he's straying like any brother would
Man turns his back on his family well he just ain't no good
Well Franky went in the army back in 1965
I got a farm deferment, settled down, took Maria for my wife
But them wheat prices kept on dropping 'till it was like we were getting robbed
Franky came home in '68, and me, I took this job
CHORUS 2:
Yea we're laughing and drinking nothing feels better than blood on blood
Takin' turns dancin' with Marie as the band played Night of the Johnstown Flood
I catch him when he's straying, teach him how to walk that line
Man turns his back on his family he ain't no friend of mine
Well the night was like any other, I got a call 'bout quarter to nine
There was trouble in a roadhouse out on the Michigan line
There was a kid lying on the floor lookin' bad bleedin' hard from his head
There was a girl crying at a table and it was Frank, they said
Well I went out and I jumped in my car and I hit the lights
But I must of done a hundred and ten through Michigan county that night
It was out at the crossroads, down round Willow bank
Seen a Buick with Ohio plates behind the wheel was Frank
Well I chased him through them county roads
'till a sign said Canadian border five miles from here
I pulled over to the side of the highway and watched his taillights disappear
CHORUS 3:
Me and Franky laughing and drinking nothing feels better than blood on blood
Taking turns dancing with Marie as the band played Night of the Johnstown Flood
I catch him when he's straying like any brother would
Man turns his back on his family well he just ain't no good