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...Belvedere, on the other side of Innisfail, Bruce Crausaz was confident his squat solid-brick home would easily withstand the gale-force winds - until he saw his wall-mounted television spear towards him. The heavy set catapulted him onto the floor. Rain pelted down on him. The roof was gone. Crausaz crawled out of the kitchen and in terror grabbed a plastic bucket, which he put over his head. For the next 40 minutes he half-knelt, half-lay on the floor with the bucket on his head, tightly gripping the door. "I know it wouldn't have stopped much...
Additionally, Murray portrays his friend’s sense of discovery quite well, especially in one memorable scene where Bruce marvels at his first snowfall, crunching the powder between his hands. Scenes like this subtly portray the novelty in Bruce’s brave new world without yanking the viewer by the collar...
Eventually, Bruce finds an ex-girlfriend who picks him up and helps him fit the pieces of his life together, but ultimately, he doesn’t care that he has a spacious Manhattan apartment and ample financial resources. Bruce cares about what he doesn’t have—his memories...
...Bruce reconnects with his family in a disorienting airport reunion that, back at his father’s house, gives way to bitter tears. His mother died several months before, and he finds the fact that he can’t remember wishing her goodbye on her deathbed particularly stinging. But Murray particularly emphasizes Bruce’s forging of new relationships, profiling his relationship with his first love, Narelle...
...restaurant - that's accessible only from a two-lane highway. But the eBay buyer vanished after discovering during a visit that the spot 260 miles north of San Francisco was teaming with abandoned shacks, garbage and decrepit buildings. After a succession of spooked online buyers also backed away, Bruce Krall, a commercial mortgage banker from the southern California enclave of Laguna Hills, paid a real estate agent $700,000 for it, with the intent of one day living there and making it an educational institute, vacation spot and retreat center, akin to Esalen in Big Sur. But because "personal family...