European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - September 1, 1991, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Home entertainment the lop 10 videocassette rentals based on billboard s Survey of retail rentals 1 sleeping with the enemy foxvideo2 misery Nelson Home entertainment. 3 Good fellas Warner Home video4 Edward scissor hands foxvideo5 la. Story live Home video 6 kindergarten cop Mca Universal Home video7 the Russia House Mem a Home video8 awakenings Fra Columbia pictures Home video9 new Jack City Warner Home video 10 Hamlet Warner Horne video the lop 10 to shows in America for aug. 1925, according to the . Nielsen co. Year to Date ranking or an x for first time showing is in parentheses 1 4 roseanneabc2 2 60 minutes cbs3 9 unsolved mysteries  3 14 coach abc5 1 cheers nbc6 35 sudden Impact  sunday night movie7 29 who s the Boss  8 x cheers monday nbc9 18 full House  10 x miss teen  a. Lbs 20th Century Fox Don Smetzer Macaulay Culkin has a Tough night in Home alone the huge hit that has arrived at . Video  11 10 i Yii is by Max Mcqueen Cox news service Home alone. 1990. Fox. Rated pm.    that show film studio Heads would have responded a year ago to the prediction that a comedy about a boy  his burgled Home would become the third highest grossing film of All time. Who a laughing now none other than the 20th Century Fox executives who gave Home alone the Green Light. Home alone opened last november in the Nick of time for Christmas. Nine months and $282 million later Box office registers still Are ringing to the Tunc of Chris Columbus family comedy. The video Bow of Home alone will find registers at video outlets joining the to Heaters Cash chorus. With a suggested retail Price of $24.98 although it probably will be $16 to $18 at Many retailers Home alone is priced for a Quick sell in the millions. You Cun be sure that by Christmas Home alone will be in every american Home with a child under 12. You also can be sure that every Parent of a child under 12 will be sick to death of Home alone by new year s Day. Home alone is Sweet. Cute too. It also boasts a performance by Macaulay Culkin that Only miss Hannigan or . Fields could hate. Even so. Home alone is without question one of the most overrated films Ever made. As a boy whose parents forget to take him on the family vacation Culkin gets away with murder. Most Likely this is because As a child defending his Home from burglars Joe Pesci and Dan Ster Culkin comes off As Clint Eastwood and John Wayne in a child a clothing. Kids took to culkins Kevin Mccallister because they loved the idea of turning into Junior rambos and rambo Nitas to defend House and Home. Parents loved Kevin too. Perhaps because they Hope their children would behave in the same Safe heroic manner if left to their own devices. The Comfort of strangers. 1991. Paramount. Rated r. This film is most uncomfortable. Then we be come to expect such from Paul Schrader who seems to Delight in making movies that give the cold shoulder to film goers. Strangers is cold shoulder in Point. As director Schrader takes a typically Pithy Harold Pinter screenplay and tries to warm it up with a hard line sexuality that Sas cold As chilled stainless steel. Schrader sets up Christopher Walken and Helen Mirren As venetian cupids who help a love sick couple Rupert Everett and Natasha Richardson restore passion to their relationship. But strangers quickly disintegrates into a cruel joke on its Young couple and film goers. By films end the emotionless characters leave behind hollow flesh covered shells As if they had shed their skin instead of their clothes. Hidden Agenda. 1990. Hob. Rated r. This raises Many questions but no answers about the British presence in Northern Ireland. Yet it was not director Ken Loaches intention to spoon feed easy solutions to film goers anyway. Instead Loach provokes. Drawing on Well documented government cover  and scandals and a terse performance by Frances Mcdormand Loach gives film goers a closeup Semi documentary look at the British governments suppression of human rights in Northern Ireland. True colors. 1991. Paramount. Rated r. Despite having the name talents of John Cusack and James Spader True colors managed Only a limited nationwide release. Video viewers can judge Lor themselves As to Why. Kevin waders screenplay tells the Story of lifelong pals who respond differently to Success and Power. Spader a Blue blooded Liberal uses his influence to better society. Cusack s working class executive wants it All a for himself. Page 16 a sunday september 1. 1991