European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - February 16, 1992, Darmstadt, Hesse Home entertainment \ / a movies on video billboard s top 10 videocassette rentals 1 Thelma amp Louise Mem a Home video 2 City slickers Columbia tristan Home video3 Point break foxvideo4 terminator 2 judgment Day live Home video5 dying Young Fox video 6 Jungle fever Mca Universal Home video 7 the naked gun 2v2 the smell of fear Paramount Home video 8 Doc Hollywood Warner Home video9 hot shots Fox video 10 Bill and teds bogus journey Orion Home video children s videos billboards top 10 children a videocassette sales 1 fantasia Walt Disney Home video 2 the Jungle Book Walt Disney Home video3 the rescuers Down under Walt Disney Home video 4 Robin Hood Walt Disney Home video 5 Peter pan Walt Disney Home video 6 Dumbo Walt Disney Home video 7 an american Tail Mca Universal Home video 8 the Little Mermaid Walt Disney Home video 9 Charlottes web Paramount Home video 10 the adventures of Rocky and bullwinkle vol. Viii Buena Vista Home video television the top 10 to shows in America for feb. 3-9, according to the a c Nielsen co 1 60 minutes cbs2 sunday olympics cbs3 Roseanne Abc 4 sunday movie kindergarten cop nbc5 cheers Abc 6 Bill Crosby special Abc 7 Murphy Brown cbs8 coach abc9 Home improvement Abc 10 unsolved mysteries Abc Timothy Dalton endangers the life of Jennifer Connelly in the adventure movie the rocketeer. Buano Vitta Pindur \ n it i \ 11 w s by Jack e. Wilkinson United press International the Rocka Taar 1991. Walt Disney Home video. Raj cd pm. An old fashioned action adventure yarn from Disney studios Kin to Indi Mui Jones and the saturday afternoon cliffhangers Complete with a daring High flying hero always one step ahead of disaster a Damsel in distress and a Gaggle of dastardly villains. Cliff Secord Bill Campbell is a 30s daredevil Pilot who finds a stolen experimental rocket powered Backpack and promptly becomes a National sensation when he zooms skyward to save a buddy who a about to crash at an air show lie then does his Superman imitation by Hying alongside a passenger plane while the occupants stare in wonderment. Figuring people will pay to see a Man Fly. Cliff plans to use the Gadget to finance a new racing plane Lor him and partner Mentor Alan Arkin but others have other ideas. The Backpack was stolen from Howard Hughes Terry of Quinn and he wants it Back. Neville Sinclair Timothy Dalton Swarthy Errol Flynn Type actor and closet nazi with dreams of flying fatherland soldiers is ready to kill for it. Cliffy a girl Friend Jenny Jennifer Connell naturally becomes a Pawn in All this and its up to our hero to save her in a final confrontation aboard a burning dirigible. Sure its All predictable and quite derivative but so what Fine family fun. The rocketeer is a blast from the past. Regarding Hanry 1991. Paramount Home video. Rated pg-13. In Mike Nichols cinematic parable Henry Turner Harrison Ford is a ruthless arrogant super successful lawyer often at the expense of his wife Annette Bening and 11-year-old daughter Mikki Allen. Then one night while buying cigarettes at a Corner store he is shot in the head during a botched robbery. All memory is erased. He must learn All Over again to speak to walk to read to love. Eventually he starts remembering a and Linds he does not like the Man he was. Now almost childlike with new values he sets out to mend fences starting with his family and extending into his unethical professional past. Sentimental and simplistic Henry is almost Capra Szuc in nature one of several films from last summer now on video dealing with soul searching and a return to decency. Or As in Case of the Billy Crystal character in City slickers. A recapturing of ones smile. Although the film Dodges reality 011 a number of issues it works mainly because its presented As a simple unpretentious Story of courage and redemption presented with skill and Good acting. Re turn to Tho Blu Lagoon i99. Columbia tristan. The son of the two Young lovers from the 19h0 original Tenpie grows up with a Young Castaway girl much the Way his parents got together with much the same results. Brian Krause is the boy Model Milla Jovovich his shipwrecked mate. The filmmakers obviously believed that one Good Dud do serves another. Vid bits the excellent documentary Cirque do Soleil it reinvent the c Ileus offers instead of clowns Anil animals stunning stunts involving High wire walkers and balancing acts played out before a classic music background. Runs one hour from poly ram video. Also from poly ram something much different two tapes featuring what company spokesmen obviously democrats Call Quot americans favorite the titles que Nylic Scanson. Among the Oral vagaries caught by the video camera president Bush Calls for a a Kitchen in every pot a observes in True Yogi Berra style that Quot its 110 exaggeration to say the undecided can go one Way or Quayle who should be used to it by now is pictured making such convoluted statements As Quot we done to want to go Back to tomorrow we want to move available tuesday in time for the presidential primary season. Republicans should demand equal Lime. We hear conflicting reports on How Well video rentals Are going but two recent studies indicate they Are going quite Well. A National Survey prepared Lor the electronic industries association showed that i percent of those polled preferred watching movies at Home rather than going to a theater. The new York times reports that the Industry consultant Alexander and associates counted 106.6 million rentals for the first week in january. That s the largest one week total recorded by the company and More than 12 million above a year ago. 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