European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - September 22, 1991, Darmstadt, Hesse Home entertainment Page 16 billboards top 10 videocassette rentals 1 Home alone Fox video 2 awakenings Ria Columbia pictures Home video3 sleeping with the enemy foxvideo4 dances with wolves Orion Home video5 new Jack City Warner Home video6 Good fellas Warner Home video7 misery Nelson Home entertainment Alan Rickman pushes Madeleine Stowe to admit her books Are subversive in closet land. Imagine8 King Ralph Mca Universal Home video 9 . Story live Home video i10 Edward scissor hands Fox video j i i the top 10 to shows in America for sept. 9 15, according to the . Nielsen co. Year to Date ranking or an x Lor first time showing is i in parentheses 1 x monday night football redskins is. Cowboys 2 x miss America pageant 2 2 60 minutes lbs 4 4 Roseanne 5 47 murder she wrote cbs6 11 coach abc7 x nurses nbc8 x p . Luv u preview cbs9 64 48 hours lbs 10 50 married. With children form did it Kkt ii a by Jack e. Wilkinson United press International closet land. 1991. Media entertainment. Rated r. Alan Rickman is the Tormentor and Madeline Stowe the tormented in this challenging two character study of human rights violations. In a nameless country an author of children a fiction Stowe is dragged from her bed and unjustly accused of writing subversive material. Rickman who has made his Mark As a scene stealing villain in such films As die hard and Robin Hood Prince of thieves is a ruthless government interrogator who tries everything to Force a confession. Rickman and Stowe Are Good and the script by first time director Radha Bharadwaj fairly crackles with a warped philosophy. Its a daring different sort of film intriguing but at times exasperating. The hard Way. 1991. Mca Universal. Rated r. James Woods plays a Gritty no nonsense cop forced to baby sit a pampered movie Star Michael j. Fox in this fast paced entertaining though predictable and at times silly action comedy. Nick Lang Fox is a popular actor who wants to shed his a Good Guy Quot image and play a Tough homicide detective. But first he needs to spend time with a the real thing a resulting in a reluctant and shaky Quot partnership Quot with detective John Moss Wood who shot on the Trail of a serial killer and not about to be diverted by an annoying this is one Case where opposites definitely do not attract a ease of intense is. Pretence they finally learn to work together but not before almost getting each other killed in a showdown with the murderer Stephen Lang High above times Square. As escapist fun the Hurd Bay is not hard to take. The perfect weapon. 1991. Paramount Home video. Rated r. There a a new Bash and Boot hero on the scene a link named Jeff Speakman who gets his kicks in High style in this violent tale of murder and revenge. Treading on territory usual test cd these Days Lor Steven Seagal and Jean Claude Van Damme Speakman plays a karate expert out to avenge the murder of his Mentor at the hands of a crime ring. The bad Guys just done to stand a Chance. While the plot is routine Speakman makes an impressive debut the action is virtually non Stop and the fight scenes Are Well executed. The five heartbeats. 1991. Fox video. Rated r. Robert Townsend a tribute to the motown sound follows the fictional career of a Young singing group in the Mold of the temptations and the four tops from ghetto Amateur contests of the �?T60s to top of the show business Heap a and beyond. It s an engrossing trip All the Way quite an achievement by the Multi talented Townsend who stars As one of the singers As Well As directing co producing and co writing the script. The soundtrack is exceptional the cast engaging and credible with an interplay that keeps things moving. Wailing for the Light. 1990. Ria Columbia pictures Home video. Rated pm. Not the Story of someone at a traffic crossing but rather a Light hearted Laid Back fable about miracles and mischief and a Quot Field of dreams of a different sort. Terri Garr plays a single mom who moves her two Young children and her Zany aunt Zena Shirley Maclaine to a Small town where she has inherited a deserted diner things Progress slowly smoothly until one night Zena a former circus magician with a few tricks still up her sleeve helps the children play a prank on a Cranky neighbor. The hoax gets out of hand when instead of a spook the neighbor thinks he sees an Angel. When he tells his Story scores of believers and sceptics throng to the site a shrine is built and diner business booms. Another splendid performance from the amazing . Vid bits something new from the Empress of exercise videos. June l Tondu s lower body solution is due oct. 31. It s a Low Impact aerobic workout that includes an optional step routine. From the looks of things video land will be Ali a with the sound of Mutie for Many Moons to come. Billboard Magazine reports the 1905 Rogers Lind Hammerstein classic starring Julie Andrews hits been on its top 41 Chart Lor a record 2hu weeks a almost five years. A 25th Unni Ersary re release last year certainly did t hurl. A sunday sep Timbl a 22. 1991
