European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - July 14, 1991, Darmstadt, Hesse Home entertainment 0 Page 16 these were the top 10 videocassettes in . Rentals last week according to billboard Magazine. .1 kindergarten cop Mca Universal Home video 2 Good fellas Warner Home video3 the drifters Hob video4_. Mermaids Orion Home video 5 postcards from the Edge Ria Columbia pictures Home video6 predator 2 Fox video 7 Green card Touchstone Home video8 Jacob s ladder live Home video9 the Rookie Warner Home video 10 three men and a Little lady Touchstone Home video these Are the top 10 to shows in America for july 1-7, according to the . Nielsen co. The year to Date ranking or an x Lor first time showing is in parentheses. A 1 6 designing women lbs 2 2 60 minutes lbs 3 45 Northern exposure lbs 4 19 in the heat of the night 5 6 Murphy Brown lbs 6 16 family matters 7 11 unsolved mysteries 8 38 the town bully abc9 16 full House 10 33 20-20 Castle Lack entertainment Merrick Morton Kathy Bates plays Annie Wilkes an obsessive and dangerous Book fan in the thriller misery. Misery rated r. I to Nelson entertainment. Another held against your will movie memorable mostly for Kathy Bates Oscar winning gothic turn As Annie a mentally nub Alan cd nurse who becomes a Romance novelists brutal Muse. James Caan is far less effective As writer Paul Sheldon a but then he is incapacitated most of the time. Annie a fan of Sheldon a misery Chastain novels rescues him car plunges into a Colorado Ravine during a blizzard. His legs broken and a shoulder is dislocated but Annie sets the Breaks and doses him with painkillers. Alas Annie the Good Samaritan comes unglued when she buys his latest misery novel Only to find out that the heroine with whom she is obsessed Dies in childbirth. A a you re just another old dirty Birdie a says Annie who forces Sheldon to destroy Bis new manuscript and write another in which he brings misery Back from the grave. There a Little doubt that the Long suffering author represents tortured artists everywhere. The novels he writes Lor Money win popular acceptance. While his one True work of Art is not Only rejected but also censored. Directed by Rob Reiner from a William Goldman screenplay it hurts to watch Rita Kempley the Washington Post look who s talking too rated pg-13. 199 1, Ria Columbia pictures Home video. If it worked once it work again no. Emphatically no. A thousand times no. It Xii who stalking Amy Heckerling a first venture into kids say the Dai a dust things filmmaking Wasny to much of a movie but it did have a certain Charm and a few Choice laughs provided mostly by Bruce Willis droll command of the kiddy Point of View As the voice of baby Mikey look who s talking too which brings everybody Back Foi i second time around merely extends the gag without adding anything to the mix. The film presents a new character Embaby sister for Mikey named Julie whose voice is provided by Roseanne Barr. But mostly what we re Given Are the same Poopoo and each jokes. The movies Only real virtue is that we done to actually have to see Roseanne Barr. A Small Blessing perhaps but a Welcome one. Hal Hinson. The Washington Post fouls of Fortune rated pg-13. 1991, Ria Columbia pictures. Pat o Connors fools of Fortune is a passionate mystifying by awkward bit of filmmaking. The picture which is set during the Irish War for Independence unveils its Story with images of unrestrained yearning intensity. The devastation of hate Are of Connors primary subject and his ardor carries a Quality of rapt obsessiveness. Unfortunately he has a stronger command of feeling than he has of sense. The first scenes convey to us the nearly edenic temper of the life of the Quinton family at their lavish estate in Rural Kil Caugh. The elder Quinton Michael Kitchen presides Over an extended clan of aunts defrocked priests maids and workers with his English wife Julie Christi and their regard Lor each other verges on the worshipful. Most of this information comes to us through the eyes of the quintons son will played compellingly As a boy by Sean Mcclory. Already we be been Given glimpses of a tortured Young Man in his 20s. The Young Man As it turns out is the grown up will lain Glen who attempts to escape from his past through drink and isolation. Hinson a sunday july 14. 1991
