European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - October 27, 1991, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Pm a of Cirjan Amer  Amir Gas a Psi wow Yak Alwg it ipad w6-r�gcbacimmeaggwhg3g, Zawar. Jugg jowl amp aug a go Raj Fig Yew to Anair  20th Century Fox Joe Pesci is a slumlords and Madolyn Smith Osborne is a housing authority lawyer in the comedy the super. Chuck Vinch staff write Ron Mon ii s the super rated r _ a k k my must see Worth your time passable entertainment coming soon to a video outlet near you and you can wait Joe Pesci the diminutive powerhouse who copped an Oscar for his manic portrayal of a psycho mobster in Godfel Lus does his take on Ebenezer Scrooge As a heartless slumlords in the super. Pesci plays Lou Gritski jr., a Man following in the footsteps of his father big Lou Vincent Gardenia Rich Flint heart who taught his son the business by dragging his boy along while he beat the overdue rent from the Downtrodden tenants of his crumbling tenements. A what Are three things to look for in a piece of property a big Lou asks rhetorically. A death divorce and destitution. What do you do to that piece of property  there is a sense that Lou or. Isnit really As crusty As his old Man but he faithfully parrots the family mantra growling at tenants while turning a deaf ear to their complaints about a rats As big As chihuahuas and nonexistent plumbing and heat. What does he care he has a fancy apartment plenty of Money a sexy Girlfriend and a Candy Apple red Corvette. But the Good life disappears when a crusading housing authority lawyer Madolyn Smith Osborne hauls him into court for violations so numerous they would fill a Telephone Book. Poetic Justice is served when Lou is sentenced to 120 Days in his own building an Urban Dante a inferno while he brings it up to Standard. What follows is a Standard Hollywood Type consciousness raising seminar As Lou gets a taste of his own Medicine highlighted by a Midnight rendezvous with one of those oversized rodents. Along the Way of course he realizes the tenants Are docent people. Most of them anyway. There Are exceptions such As Milkman. Quot Why do they Call you that a Lou asks. Quot because i killed a Milkman a comes the reply. A Nohh huh a Lou says thoughtfully. Director Rod Daniel and screenwriter Sam Simon let Pesci go wild and he carries the show with the kind of Sharp comic timing he flashed so deftly As one of the bumbling thieves in Home alone. He gets solid support from the actors playing the tenants especially con artist Ruben Blades and Kenny Blank As a Young boy Wise beyond his years who fills this Story a tiny Tim role. Gardenia a talented supporting actor who enhances any film he appears in does the same Here As a father who can still learn a few things from his son. The Only false note is struck by Osborne who is a Fine enough actress but is saddled with writer Simon a decision to give her character an underdeveloped and unnecessary romantic interest in Lou. Some of the scenes arc truly inspired As when Pesci finally decides to mix with the tenants at a House party and shows that even Short Pudgy White folks can rap. Another highlight is an extended sequence involving Pesci in a game of three on three pickup hoops with Blades and his buddies. When Pesci bops out of the building ready for action in his Chic designer sweat suit Blades can t suppress his amazement. A that outfit screams a in a wearing clothing that no one in this neighbourhood can afford so please come and Slick me with a Sharp object a a a he dryly observes. The super is a rough Diamond of a movie and Pesci gives it All the polish it needs to earn three  i i ski s ambition rated r.  Diamond Phillips weighs ill As writer ail Star of this psycho logical thriller about a would be author who becomes obsessed with his subject a recently paroled convicted murderer to Brown. It soon becomes dear that Phillips does t simply want to write the kill i s unauthorized biography he has some unauthorized dirty work of his own in fund lot the increasingly unstable sex con. Another you rated r. Comedy. Richard Pryor and Gene Wilder Star in this double Lentendre comedy about a Funky Street con Man. An obsessive liar and the elaborate swindle they stumble into. Body Barts rated r. First run. In an Experiment. A researcher grafts limbs of a convicted murderer onto three different Accident victims. Jeff Fahey Lindsay Duncan John Walsh Kim Delaney. Deceived rated r. First run. A new York Book editor enjoys a perfect life until her husband is apparently killed in a car wreck a it a j she starts finding out about his past. Now she is in danger. Goldie i Lawn. John heard. Dutch rated  in this comedy  o Neill Star of television s married. With children is a Good hearted Blue Collar Guy who tries to win Over his Girlfriend s snobbish son. Ethan Randall. The Fleher ring rated r. First run. An outspoken radio announcer Falls front Power and ends up on the streets of new York where he finds love and the secret of the Fisher King. Robin Williams jell Bridges Amanda Plummer. Mercedes Kuchl. Freddy s dead the final Nightmare rated r. First run. The Nightmare begun on nov. 2, 1184, in the town of Springwood. Now All the children Are gone and it s time for a real Battle Between Freddy and a child psychologist. I Uzlic Deane Ricky Dean Logan. Jungle fever rated r. A Middle class Black has an affair with his italian Macri can Secretary causing controversy Between their families and neighbourhoods. Wesley Snipes Annabella Sciorra Samuel i. Jackson John Turturro Lonette Mckee. Kick Boner it the Reed Beck rated r. A martial arts teacher is tricked into fighting with a Man looking for revenge for losing a kick boxing championship to the teacher s brother. Sasha Mitchell Jean Claude Van Damme Michel Zissi. The naked quit Vvhs the smell of foot rated pc i j. Police it. Frank Drc Hin is Back to confront sneaky villains in the Oil and nuclear Power business  of slapstick comedy Here. Leslie Nielsen Robert Goulet Priscilla Presley. A res a Tohom rated r. A to Unkyul of Gold in Harlem has the had Guys against the really bad Guys in a mad scramble to get the riches. Forest Whitaker Robin Givens Danny Glover Gregory Hines Zakes Moke. The rocketeer rated pm. A Young Pilot who finds a rocket pack is suddenly pursued by the mob feds nazis and its rightful owner Howard Hughes. Bill Campbell Alan Arkin Timothy Dalton. .  rated r. A Romp through the streets of Chicago with Kathleen Turner cast As the trash talking detective of Sara Paretsky a mystery novels. Alee on the cafes circuit rated g the and Ventsias of Milo and Otis. The Jungle Book the Little Mermaid the Nutcracker Prince Peter pan the rescuers Down under. Rated pm delirious Duck tales the movie Hamlet Home alone and what about Bob rated pg-13 dances with wolves. Kindergarten cop. . Story Lite stinks look who s talking nothing but trouble Only the lonely problem child ii Robin Hood Prince of thieves. Rated r ambition another you. Back Dratt. Dying Young eve of destruction Fiath ners Freddy s dead the final Nightmare the hard Way Lionheart Madonna truth or dare. Marked Tor death. Necessary roughness. One Good cop. Out Tor Justice. Point break predator ii. Switch terminator 2 judgement  v. 1991 sunday a Page 19