European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - August 4, 1991, Darmstadt, Hesse Home entertainment last week s top 10 videocassette rentals based on billboard s Survey of retail rentals 1 Goot fellas Warner 2 kindergarten cop Universal Mca 3 Edward scissor hands Fox 4 Green card Touchstone 5 the drifters Miramar Hob. 6 reversal of Fortune Warner 7 misery Nelson 8 postcards from the Edge Ria Columbia 9 mermaids Orion 10 look who stalking too Ria Columbia the top 10 to shows in America for july 2228, according to the . Nielsen co. Year to Date ranking or an x for first time showing is in parentheses 1 31 20-20 2 4 Roseanne 3 9 empty Neil 4 6 Murphy Brown lbs 5 2 60 minutes lbs 6 1 cheers 7 7 designing women lbs 6 15 family matters 9 23 major dad lbs 10 12 Golden girls twin Irth Lukity fuck myst Arano Wils Patrick Burgin batters Julia Roberts then struggles to and her in sleeping with the 11 10 k1 \ is sleeping with the enemy. Rated r. 1991. Fox video. Not even Julia Roberts can overcome a bad script in a movie overwrought with wrong turns. This is the ultimate battered wife movie. Roberts a Sweet pretty Young thing lives with a Man Patrick Bergin who explodes in violent anger if cans not properly aligned in the Kitchen cupboard with labels facing out. He a a Man who can Only make love a roughly a to his wife if he plays the forceful and haunting symphonic Fantas Tique by Berlioz. It is a piece of music she grows to loathe. He also is a Man who routinely beats his wife for an infraction of his lifestyle such As not properly folding the bathroom hand towels or not having the stripes in their design perfectly aligned. A storm at sea provides the mechanism for her escape to Iowa. There in a Small town she Falls in love with a gentle Man. Her husband learns of her deception and tracks her Down. Ronald Bass rain Man wrote the screenplay based on the novel by Nancy Price. But there Are so Many holes and inconsistencies that sleeping with the enemy loses its Impact As a psychological thrill Rand becomes a sick joke. For example Why in the world would anyone who took such pains to carefully plot an escape remove her wedding band flush the toilet and not Check to make sure it went Down and Why did it take him so Long presumably weeks to discover the ring one can Only presume that director Joseph Rubin and Bass did no to think this Guy would Ever use the bathroom or that the audience consisted of a Bunch of dunces. More serious Are questions about the characters. There no clues As to Why the husband is so psychotic ally compulsive and possessive or Why the wife an intelligent and Clever woman did no to leave him earlier. But no matter sleeping with the enemy did Well in its theatrical release. Once again stupidity triumphed Over substance. Dolores Barclay the associated press Alice. Rated pg-13.1990. Orion Home video. Alice Tait Mia Farrow is the winsome Centrepiece in Woody Allens sentimental comic fantasy a sheltered self indulgent easily flustered Park Avenue wife married to a smug Rich businessman William Hurt becoming disenchanted with her life. It seems Alice is no longer in wonderland. Boredom with everyday rituals of shopping Beauty Parlours and the like leads to a suspicion that there a something More out there. This in turn leads to a series of sessions with a far out Oriental or. Yang Keye Luke who arms her with an array of magic potions and an urge to have a affair with a saxophonist named Joe Joe Mantegna. Jack e. Wilkinson United press International my heroes have always been cowboys. Rated pm. 1991. Media entertainment. An appealing Well done modern Western about Rodeo life and the prodigal son about bucking bulls and bucking the Odds a Rocky with spurs. Bull rider . Dalton Scott Glenn returns Home to recover from injuries and finds things have changed considerably since he left years before. The old Homestead is deserted his sister Cheryl Tess Harper has put their father Jesse Ben Johnson into a nursing Home and her Wheeler dealer husband Gary Busty wants to sell the place. Further .�?Ts childhood sweetheart Jolie Kate Capshaw is a widow and suddenly available. Never a mail on speaking terms with responsibility . A a liberates Jesse and takes him Back Home Over the objections of his sister. He vows to take care of the irascible old Man. To save the farm and his father and maybe marry Jolie . Sets his sights on the $100,000 prize in the upcoming Bull mania Rodeo. All he has to do is ride the undid table Thunder Bolt. That a a lot of Bull. Wilkinson Lionheart. Rated r. 1990, Mca Universal Home video. Muscular super agile Jean Claude Van Damme plays Lyon a deserter from the foreign legion who gets involved in a brutal business while trying to help his brother a family. To earn Money for his destitute relatives Lyon tries his hand a and feet a As a Bare knuckled no holds barred Street Gladiator fighting for the amusement of easily amused Rich folks. Wilkinson Page 16 a sunday August 4, 1991
