European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - March 3, 1991, Darmstadt, Hesse Almost an Angel rated pm. Crocodile Dundee s Paul Hogan returns As a career criminal who gets religion after a a a promising Start this film lapses into sickening Sweet. With Koteas and l Inda Wezlowski. A 7 awakenings rated pg-13. A moving compassionate Tri. A Mph of a movie about the life s radiance and agony. Based on a True Story the film has Robin Williams As a neurologist and Robert do Niro As one of canc catatonic patients he awakens after decades in coma. Do Niro and the movie itself have . Nominated for oscars. A. A a the Bonfire of the vanities rated r. A storm of a Book becomes an insignificant Squall of a movie. Tom Hanks is the anti hero a wealthy Wall Streeter caught up in the vehicular a murder of a ghetto youth. Melanie Griffith and Bruce Willis costar and this Wishy Washy film gets a Wishy Washy two and half. Stars. A a a Graffiti Bridge rated pm. Prince is Back As the composer writer director and Star of this sorta sequel to 1984�?Ts purple rain. The Rocker and his scene stealing buddy Morris Day play rival nightclub owners musicians in a fable about com my acc is. Art Good is. Evil spiritual is. Funky. The music costumes camera angles Etc. Arc All mtg up to Date hut the plot and dialogue belong in a Frankic and Annc Etc Beach movie. A Ghent rated pg-13. This tale of life after death involves Patrick Swayze Baring his muscular Torso Demi Moore dripping huge tears and whoops Goldberg As the Bright note turning in a surprisingly Good performance As a con artist medium. Macri Ca must be hard up for Romance to make this overwrought Story the years Box office Champ nonetheless the Academy awards. People nominated it for Best picture. ��.�?�.�. Horn alone rated pm. An occasionally riotous Story of a Young boy Macaulay Culkin accidentally left behind when his family jets of f to Europe for vacation. Two bumbling burglars the boy has to outwit and a sentimental message about the importance of family get tossed into this Light Breezy store and a. Add up to a three Star Holiday season film. Nominated for original score and original song oscars. Havana rated Ras seen Here Cuba m the late 1950s is another Casablanca in the �?T40s. Triangle different fascists Rohrt Redford stars As a cynical Gambler looking for the big poker game even As cuban dictator Fulgencio Batista a regime is crumbling around him. Lena olm is the woman he Falls for a the Beautiful devoted wife of an idealistic revolutionary Raul Julia. The movie is never As important As it wants to be though not for Lack of trying. At its Best its a professionally made socially conscious showcase for a male sex Symbol who agrees to act gracefully on screen for the first Tunc. A a i a a a a. A a Jacobs ladder rated r Tun Robbins stars As a Vietnam vet living in new York and plagued by nightmarish visions ghost the subway Home less pc pc ghouls demonic thingies that disco with his girl fiend Elizabeth Pena the people who leave this supernatural thriller muttering Quot that was weird arc Likely to be the same people who found fatal attraction disturbing and intelligent. A kindergarten cop rated pg-13. Arnold Schwarzenegger continues to amaze Spry cuddly comedy about a cop going undercover in a kindergarten to catch a killer. There so a isome violence in the beginning and the end seems a Little out of place in this mild mannered comedy. But with a splash of a. Tion a passel of cute kids and an appealing cast of grownups this film gets three out of four stars. King Ralph rated pm. A fatso lounge pianist is elected to the throne of England in a cast caul of courtiers and schemers a should have been a vehicle for Jackie Gleason in 1967. In a Stead in 1991, with John Goodman Peter of Toole and John Hurt burping or smirking their Way through it looks like a lot of condescension and tired formula. Story rated pg-13. . Through the prism of Steve Martins warped vision a what More could you ask Martin plays a Wacky television a Eatchman gradually falling in love with a British photojournalist Martin s real life wife Victoria what a it about Tennan who s in town doing a Story on the City the film has a flashy Quick Cut mtg Stylc Welt suited tothe material As Well As Manly he incr and Sarah Jessica Parker in supporting roles. Add this film to the growing list of Steve Martin successes. Nothing but trouble ruled pg-13. Dan Aykroyd s directorial debut is a mostly unfunny mishmash of grotesque slapstick. Encased in heavy makeup he plays a rotting new Jersey Justice of the peace who sends miscreants to their doom. John Gandy also appears in a double role As Well As Chevy Chase and Demi a a Moore. A a a. A a a a a not without my daughter rated pg-13. Done to be put off by the made for to title and made for to oversimplification. Tins True Story of an american woman a virtual imprisonment in the Iran of the Ayatollah Khomeini is an emotionally powerful picture a one that dares to take the Issue of women s subhuman status in Muslim countries so Sously. Sally Field plays the american Alfred Mola her initially americanized but soon Khomeini sized husband. Robert Redford plays a High stakes Gambler in Universal City studios a Tho Nutcracker pro Rico rated g. A feature length cartoon about Clara and the Nutcracker made famous by Tchaikovsky the Nutcracker Prince has the voices of Kiefer Sutherland and Megan follows and some modest charms. Predator 2 rated r. Longer on hard action dazzle dazzle a than imagination this is More an Ultra violent reworking of the original predator than a sequel. This time we re in the Urban a Jungle of 1997 los Angeles where Veteran cop Danny Glover clashes with Federal agent Gary Busty on How to tackle another. Of those out sized aliens with their incredible weaponry. Ravar Sal of Fortuna rated r. A sinfully entertaining tragicomedy of manners. This lifestyles of the Rich and Infa Tivous is Quot based on the real life Case of Clauston by of Jeremy Iron who was charged with trying to murder his wife socialite a millionaire sunny von , via an insulin overdose. Its narrated by sunny Glenn close from her irreversible coma a a mordant comedy touch. Irons has been nominated for Best a actor Oscar for his work Here. A a robot Jox rated pm. Horror expert Stuart Gordon re animator seems slogged Down Insom thing Here perhaps to considerations or a vast toy marketing , his futuristic fable about a Post holocaust Era in which International disputes arc settled by human piloted mechanical monsters has some surprises but Little of the satire ingenuity or irony that typify his Best work. A run rated r. The title of this movie should give you a Good idea a run run from this terrible movie the problems of a ludicrous script involving a College kid running from mobsters Are compounded by the writ Chad work of the leads Patrick dumps by and Kelly Preston. So c handles her part As if she took a fistful of valium he just appears befuddled through out this Long and Boring Chase scene. A ,. Tha Russia Housa rated r. This adaptation of the 1988 John be Catt novel May not deliver the usual spills and chills of conventional spy movies but its exuberantly intelligent and by artfully made. Scan Connery As a British publisher lured. Unto the spy game and Michelle Pfeiffer As a russian endian Tress Are a Fine with tha enemy rated r. A solid Book has been inflated by overproduction and under wanting into thin melodrama. Its another fairy tale for Julia Roberts wife abuse being seen Here As no More grueling than Roberts Job As a hoi Lywood Boulevard Hooker in pretty woman. And she attacks 7 this role with the same Bland compliance and dazzling superficial a ,.tune i tomorrow rated pg-13 its 1951 and radio is in the last Days of its supremacy. Wobu Quot the voice of new Orleans a has hired hot writer Pedro Carmichael Peter Falk to heat up its Low rated soap. Everyone and everything is grist for Pedro a scripts and he a soon orchestrating an older woman. Younger Man affair Between a 21-Ycar-old writer Keanu Reeves and the kids luscious 35-Ycar-old aunt by marriage Barbara her shy. For a while the movies whimsical interweaving of fact and fantasy seems to work but it seems to come apart a bit toward the end. The two Jake rated r. This dense Story of greed and obsession in Post word War ii los Angeles is impeccably told acted and set. A video replay of Chinatown first is a must but other than that thanks to writer Robert town and director Star Jack Nicholson everything is just a Juke about this so Quai to the 1974 detective classic. A these Short reviews Are of films coming this month to the cafes theater circuit. They Are compiled from reports by wire services and reviews by staff reviewer Chuck Vinch. V we expect to present this Page once a month for you to save and consult at any time you you want to know,7 a a what a it about a a lengthy review by Vinch of Quot silence of the lambs is featured on Page 19. Locations and times for the movies on the cafes circuit can be found on pages 18 and 19. A a March 3, 1991 sunday Page 11
