European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - January 12, 1992, Darmstadt, Hesse R Home entertainment billboard s top 10 videocassette rentals 1 City slickers Columbia tristan Home video 2 terminator 2 judgment Day live Home video3 Bac draft Mca Universal Home video 4 the silence of the lambs Orion Home video 5 what about Bob Touchstone Home video .6 soap dish Paramount Home video i 7 fx2 the deadly Art of illusion Orion Home video 8 Robin Hood Prince of thieves Warner Home video 9 the naked gun 2vfc the smell of i fear Paramount Home video i i 10 out for Justice Warner Home video the top 10 to shows in America for dec. 30 Jan. 5, according to the . Nielsen co. Year to Date ranking or an x for first time showing is in parentheses1 1 60 minutes lbs 2 4 cheers 3 10 murder she wrote lbs 4 25 20-20 5 18 America s funniest Home videos 6 16 the Cosby show 7 20 wings 1 8 14 a different world 9 22 America s funniest people 10 19 empty nest Page 16 a sunday january 12. 1992 la 1 Mem a Susan Sarandon and Geena Davis steer through a sizzling Road trip in Thelma amp Al \ ii is by Jack e. Wilkinson United press International Thelma amp Louise. 1991. Mcm a Home video. Rated r. Thelma is a frustrated housewife with Little future Louise is a High spirited waitress with a past. Together they set out to do something about the present. What starts As a relaxing fun weekend lakes a sudden dramatic Detour when a Chance confrontation with a would be rapist at a Roadside Honky Tonk changes their lives forever. Now they re on the Lam a female Butch Cassidy and Sundance kid streaking across the Southwest in a Green convertible bound for Mexico the Law hot on their Trail. Geena Davis and Susan Sarandon Thelma and Louise respectively and they blend perfectly in Ridley Scott a new Breed of Quot buddy movie their splendid on the a dec performances making this a Dandy Road Story with dangerous curves provocative and Portu Brablc raucously funny and sexy but with an Over obvious undercoat of sadness. Another you. 1991. Columbia tristan Home video. Rated r. Gene Wilder and Richard Pryor Are George and Eddie two con men who get conned in this lightweight silly comedy of devious doings. Convicted scam artist Eddie is sentenced to help rehabilitate George who a fresh out of a mental Hospital when suddenly everyone begins insisting that George is really a missing millionaire Beer Baron named Abe. Eddie talks George into going along with the gag but before Long it becomes apparent this is All part of a plot to produce a live Abe kill him and flee with the Beer Bucks. Wilder and Pryor in their fourth pairing work Well together hut need better material. Mortal thoughts. 1991. Columbia tristan Home video. Rated r. Close friends since childhood Cynthia Demi Moore and Joyce Glenne deadly find their lives and marriages going nowhere. Joyce in particular has a major problem a she a married to an impossible Slob Bruce Willis and she and Cynthia spend a lot of Lime talking about How everyone would be much better off if he turned lip dead. One night he does but things done to exactly gel better. The Story develops through Flashback As Cynthia gives a quivering account of her role in the incident and the subsequent cover up to a sceptical detective Harvey Keitel. Its a compelling film and Alan Rudolph has a Good Story and cast to work with though the denouement while surprising does no to quite match the buildup. Doc Hollywood. 1991. Warner Home video. Rated pg-13. Michael j. Fox is a big City doctor who discovers the Joys of Small town living in this charming refreshing romantic comedy. Fox is in route to Beverly Hills Jofrid a megabucks career As a plastic surgeon when he a stranded in the tiny Rural Hamlet of Grady . A a the Squash Capitol of the after crashing his car into the judges Fence he a sentenced to so viral Days service Pinch hitting for the town doctor Barnard Hughes. He hates it champing at the bit to hit the Road chuckling contemptuously at repeated efforts to lure him into staying. The Doc is an immediate local hero with the townsfolk. He even gets his own pig thanks to a grateful patient and from the looks of things this could be Shangrila. His resolve really starts to dissolve when he a with the Beautiful and uninhibited Hospital aide Julie Warner in her film debut for whom he Falls like a 100-Pound sack of feed dutch. 1991. Fox video rated pg-13. Dutch de of Neill offers to pick up his girlfriends son Doyle Ethan Randall at his boarding school in Atlanta and drive him Back to Chicago for thanksgiving in this Cross country comedy fraught with familiar Pitfalls. The Way they View each other dutch is a Slob Doyle is a snob and it lakes some doing to get them on the same wave length. Delirious. 1991. Mem a Home video. Rated pm. John Candy plays to soap opera writer Jack Gable who gels to live out some of the fantasies he composes or so it seems. Knocked out in an Accident Jack wakes up to find himself smack dab in the Middle of his own serial. The make believe is now real and to his Delight he kinds he can control events simply by writing Down the Way he wants things to come out. This is a big plus in his Pursuit of Rachel Emma Samm the elegant and snooty Star of his show. Muriel Hemingway plays the other much More sensible woman in his confusing adventure. Its an engaging comedy spoofing the readily spoof ble and whether he a playing the hero or the Klutz of the Moith Candy is Dandy. It
