European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - February 24, 1991, Darmstadt, Hesse Two films Worth a look on a slow week a Sarah Bottorff its to plus editor sometimes great movies show Jip with names you be never heard of. Sometimes these great movies with names you never heard of show up at bad times on an to. Here arc two that Are Worth Figur. Ing out the Var timer for. A Turk 182 got a bad rap when it came out in 1985 because people thought it was supposed to be a comedy. It s funny at Points but its not a comedy a this is one Fine film about fighting City Hall. As with the other Good film this week sworn. To silence you can get a clue to the Quality of the movie by the people in it. Robert unch Lone some Dove plays a new York firefighter who impulsively runs from the bar he a been unwinding in after work to Rush into a burning building to save a child. He a badly injured a and the City deciding he must have been drunk at the time cuts him off without a Penny. A As Good As Urich is Timothy Hutton the Falcon and the snowman is the shining Light of this movie playing the new or do will younger brother who starts fighting City Hall for a fair shake for his brother. This is no Ordinary to movie style docudrama about the cold bureaucracy and the Ordinary Man though this is just about one particular Young Man and his unique occasionally hilarious Battle in Brooklyn. In the end the world seems to be on his Side and you will be too. Good stuff a it comes on tuesday morning. Sworn to silence is at an equally poor time a just before Midnight Friday. And its equally Rich with great actors. Liam Nelson who a just hitting Fame now As Parkman plays the hapless country i just want to say that i think an to was grossly insensitive to spouses of deployed of ithary members when they recently aired a the dirty dozen movie. A a Isnit it bad enough that so Muny Peoples spouses arc in the Middle of a War and in danger of being killed must we watch it in the few mov ies we get to see on to usually an to does a pretty Good Job All things considered but they get a thumbs Down in my opinion for this Choice. Claire Ennis a Augsburg Germany Man accused of revolting murders of teen age. Girls. Peter Coyote the Good scientist in . The extra terrestrial and the cheating heartbreaker in outrageous Fortune plays the lawyer who shoves aside his civil Law practice to defend him. And Dabney Coleman Short time won an emmy As the alcoholic attorney with criminal do fens expertise who pitches in to help. Quot the plot is one you be seen before what with the seemingly innocent accused the angry town ready to Lynch him and the lawyer warned by All his friends and family to stay away from the Case. But with actors this great you hardly notice the is a very Good film. Too bad the same can t be said for new kids on the Block. In fact its nearly impossible to find anything Good to say about this animated exploitation of pre teens. This thing wifi cd starts tuesday afternoon mixes interviews and other snippets from the human new kids with a meandering about fan Ima cd new kids. Sort of a who framed Roger Rabbit without the humor special effects or plot. The new kids Arentt bad singers and seem pleasant enough people for teen superstars. They deserve better than this tripe and heaven knows their fans do. It would take a truly love struck girl to sit through this junk a particularly the first episode which in suits such girls by going on and Fin about How the new kids arc trapped m hotel rooms by shrieking fans and How the new kids can to seem to find sincere girls Wilfo love Thorn for themselves and not their Star status. Gee thanks Guys. Give this a Nuss. A it. Vanna White returns to an this week along with a few other familiar faces. Besides wheel of Fortune starting monday there a jeopardy coming m beginning tuesday Chip and Dales res Cue rangers right after new kids on the Block tuesday and the educational kids show Reading i Rainbow copying on the same Alt noon. For a More cheerful portrait of the Middle Quot v East than we be been seeing lately try Aladdin and his magic lamp an animated movie saturday afternoon produced by the japanese a Jacy Kucach is the famed detective Mike Hamm eff in Mike Hammer murder takes All sunday night. And Richard Lewis anything but love unfortunately flops in a stand up comedy special wednesday night telling the jewish Mother and psychoanalysis jokes that made him medium famous before he got on the to funniest line comes not from Lewis but from Robin Williams who in an introduction says Lewis jokes have a kind of half life Quot a delayed reaction a the gets Many standing ovations when people get Back to their Homes a he says. Quot Well this columnist got All the Way Home from an the other night and still Hasni to laughed. Slow week on Southern european broadcast a a my a which gets the above programs for Good or ill in the third week of april. This week there Are no new series and Only a couple of Good films. The French connection ii sunday does no to have a a the brilliance of the original crime drama but it Loes have some tense scenes. Los of tense scenes wednesday in the Quality made for to docudrama the taking of flight 187 the Ltd Derickson Story with Lindsay Wagner As the courageous flight attendant dealing with the Middle Eastern terrorists who for Many tense Days in 1985, seemed ready to kill All the passengers they had hijacked. Quot finally Woody Allens radio Days Friday goes Back to the pre world War ii times when radio really counted and stars of course Mia Farrow. A a a some of the faces on to this week top a. Richard Lewis has a comedy special on an to wednesday. Center Lindsay Wagner is in a the taking of flight 847 the Eli / Derickson Story on Southern european broadcasting wednesday. And Timothy Hutton is in a Jurk 182�?� on an to v tuesday. February 24, 1991 sunday a a Quot Page 15
