Sarah Kernochan’s Typical Vibe
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Sarah Kernochan has 5 titles in the CriticCrunch catalog across a career spanning the 1980s through the 2010s.
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In 1963 New England, a group of friends at an all-girls academy learn that they're going to be combined with a nearby all-boys institution. They concoct a plan to save their school while dealing with everyday problems along the way.
Dir. Sarah Kernochan · With Kirsten Dunst, Gaby Hoffmann, Lynn Redgrave

Set in the South just after the US Civil War, Laurel Sommersby is just managing to work the farm without her husband, believed killed in battle. By all accounts, Jack Sommersby was not a pleasant man, thus when he suddenly returns, Laurel has mixed emotions. It appears that Jack has changed a great deal, leading some people to believe that this is not actually Jack but an imposter. Laurel herself is unsure, but willing to take the man into her home, and perhaps later into her heart.
Dir. Jon Amiel · With Jodie Foster, Richard Gere, Bill Pullman

Norman and Claire Spencer are a seemingly happily married couple who uncover a terrible secret… a secret so disturbing it threatens to destroy them.
Dir. Robert Zemeckis · With Michelle Pfeiffer, Harrison Ford, Diana Scarwid

As her marriage dissolves, a Manhattan writer takes driving lessons from a Sikh instructor with marriage troubles of his own. In each other's company they find the courage to get back on the road and the strength to take the wheel.
Dir. Isabel Coixet · With Patricia Clarkson, Ben Kingsley, Jake Weber

An erotic story about a woman, the assistant of an art gallery, who gets involved in an impersonal affair with a man. She barely knows about his life, only about the sex games they play, so the relationship begins to get complicated.
Dir. Adrian Lyne · With Mickey Rourke, Kim Basinger, Margaret Whitton