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The darkly funny American indie drama “Small Engine Repair” works best when it’s a hangout comedy starring three schlubby New England burnouts. Based on writer-director John Pollono’s stage play, ...

Any given garage or workshop can house a multitude of different small, diesel engine-powered implements, such as log splitters. The annoying thing about these many small engines is that, much like the ...

John Pollono, Jon Bernthal, Shea Wigham, and Ciara Bravo star in Small Engine Repair, an upcoming comedic drama film. Frankie (John Pollono), Swaino (Jon Bernthal) and Packie (Shea Wigham) are ...

A mini-masterpiece of toxic masculinity, anger management issues, and friends and family “hanging from the lowest rung on the lower-middle-class ladder” as one character wryly puts it, Small Engine ...

Playwright, filmmaker and actor John Pollono doesn’t bristle when it’s suggested that his play-turned-movie Small Engine Repair about three bickering blue collar friends coming together to protect the ...

MOORHEAD — Jesse Myers says that while growing up in the Twin Cities he started doing mechanical work in high school, "doing stuff for friends and family." He moved to the Fargo-Moorhead area in 2006 ...