European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - April 5, 1992, Darmstadt, Hesse This week s films 0�ar again rated r. Thriller. A Young woman Emma Thompson tormented by nightmares it put under hypnosis where she describes not her own life but that of the glamorous Margaret Strauss who died in the 1940s. A tangled intrigue of reincarnation and revenge begins to emerge As More of her former life is revealed. Kenneth Branagh Derek Jacobi. Data lava rated r. Drama. A new York Book editor Goldie hawn enjoys a perfect life until her husband John heard is apparently killed in a car wreck and she starts finding out about his past. Now she is in danger. A my to scared stupid rated to. Comedy. Ernest a halloween is ruined when he releases a tree troll who has been entombed for 200 Yean. The wicked troll tries to cast an evil spelt on Ernest a Hometown. Jim Varney Eartha Kitt. Father of the Bride rated pm. Comedy. Steve Martin stars As the stressed Oul daddy trying to Cope with his daughter s elaborate wedding. Chaos and commotion Are exceeded Only by endless preparations and astronomical costs As the fateful Day draws near. Diane Keaton co Stan. Fer the lays rated r. Musical comedy. This bittersweet tale explores the ill fated love affair Between a male female James Caan and Bette Midler song and dance team As they tour with the Uso to entertain the troops during world War ii Korea and Vietnam. Herc premises rated pm. Drama. A worthless drifter determined to win Back his old Girlfriend returns to his Hometown on the eve of her wedding. Sissy Spacek William l. Petersen. it i the Bulehe Ninf rated a adventure fantasy. Christopher Lambert and Sean Connery Are Back As those immortals who cannot die except by decapitation. This time the film has an environmentally conscious theme involving the destruction of the Ozone layer. Michael Ironside Virginia Madsen. House party 3 rated r. Musical. This sequel follows the adventures of rap group kid a no play As they Cross the threshold of adulthood. Play Hopes to find Fame in the music business while kid is off to College. Kid n play Martin Lawrence. The lost boy beaut rated r. Adventure. An eve Cia agent turned private Eye teams up with an sex football Star to track Down a killer in this action oriented adventure. Our Down and out heroes Are on the Trail of the men who murdered a Mutual Friend. Their investigation uncovers a conspiracy so vile and vast it threatens the very existence of pro football. Bruce Willis Daman Wayans. Late for dinner rated pm. Comedy two men Frozen for 29 years in an Experiment must learn to adjust to a world profoundly different from the one they seemingly just left. Brian Wimmer Peter Berg. Linio men tale rated pm. Drama. A gifted 7 year old boy is torn Between his Mother who wants him to live a Normal life and a child psychologist who wants to help him make the most of his potential. Jodie Foster Dianne Wiest. Mek Stere rated r. A look at famous mobsters Lucky Luciano Meyer Lansky bugs Siegel and Frank costello on their Way to becoming legends during the period of 1917 through 1930. Christian Slater Patrick Demp Sci. My Ort rated pm. In this comedy drama about relationships Macaulay Cunikin leave Home to hang around precocious i year old Anna Chlum sky. Meanwhile her widower dad Dan Aykroyd find hit life brightened by the new Gal in town Jamie Lee Curlis. Thu popu must slut rated r. A powerful businessman involved with the Vatican staff in a web of corruption deals with a country priest who is elected Pope by mistake. Robbie Coltrane Herbert Lom. Shutter we rated r. Suspense. A wealthy real estate Developer Tom Berenger suffering from amnesia after a near fatal car Accident struggles to regain his identity with the help of his conniving wife Greta Scacchi business partner Corbin a Emsun and a private investigator Bob Hoskins in this psychological thriller. Joanne Whalley Kilmer co stars. Bou Pelsh rated pg-13. This Wacky comedy reveals All about the lives and loves of the actors and Crew of a fictional daytime soap opera. Sally Field Kevin Kline whoops Goldberg Robert Downey Cathy Truk i thu country rated to. Back in the Groove after site trek v the final Frontier this topical symbolic space voyage supposedly the last for the Enterprise s original can continues the tradition of Star trek. Director co writer Nicholas Meyer and hot collaborators generate much Star struck dash Titi Flash out of their last Hurrah a with the dissolving klingon Empire obviously paralleling the Modem soviet Union turmoil. William Shatner Leonard Nimoy. Term Lutor 2i judgment Day rated r. An Unsiog Pablo cyborg from the future returns to Bailie his foes. Arnold Schwarzenegger Linda in tha a frs circuit rated of an american Tail fico cd goes West Beauty and the beast. Rated Roi Bingo the rocketeer suburban commando. Ratio Bo-131 the Addams family blame it on the Bellboy curly sue Doc Hollywood dutch inner Circle ladybugs memoirs of an invisible Man the naked gun 2w the smell of fear Only the lonely Wayne s world. Ratip m backed rail Cape fear City stickers the commitments the Fisher King free Jack Juke the Lawnmower Man living Large Ricochet the super. Or. Robin Van Dorn Lea Thompson comforts or. Peter Morgan Kiefer Sutherland in the drama article 99. Orion pictures Chuck Vinch stall write Ron m \ m Sar Alclo 99 rated r a 1/2 a aaa must see aaa Worth your Lime a a passable entertainment a coming soon to a video outlet near you and you can wait director Howard Deutch and writer Ron Cutler desperately want you to think of this movie about the supposedly deplorable conditions inside our veterans hospitals As a contemporary a a so. They go to outrageous lengths to do this not Only casting colourless Kiefer Sutherland in a Lead role but even having him Don a floppy Boonie hat just like the one his dad Donald wore in that classic anti Vietnam War film. There a just one problem we be slipped a Long Way since the Early 70s, the last time the idea of harnessing widespread Public outrage to change government policy seemed More than a pipe dream. Even so Deutch and Cutler Tell us there Are still renegades who know its hopeless but throw themselves into the breach anyway like the doctors at one particular veterans Hospital. They Are led by Ray Liotta As or. Sturgess a rebel with More cause than he knows what to do with. Together with fellow cutters Forest Whitaker and John c. Mcginley he gamely tackles the red tape of a Nightmare bureaucracy far More dedicated to saving dollars than lives. Its a world that would make Kafka a head spin. Unauthorized surgery on patients who would otherwise never be treated is routine. Patients who Are about to be discharged prematurely on orders from the administrators Are a a turfed a stashed in dark Comers of the Hospital while continuing to get treatment. Sturgess and his merry band which includes Lea Thompson and Kathy Baker Are forced to stage Midnight raids on their facility a research lab to get the equipment they need to treat their patients. Into this byzantine world comes Sutherland As a wet behind the ears resident looking to put in time on the Chain gang before moving on to lucrative private practice. But he catches a raging Case of morality and soon becomes a rebel himself. Veteran character actor John Mahoney gets the unenviable Job of playing the Hospital administrator a role meant to represent every Lead brained starched shorts bureaucrat who Ever lived. As such the part is so overdrawn its a ridiculous caricature. Mahoney gets to spout such lines As a a we re not responsible for every Lunatic out there just because they once wore a the characters Are so wafer thin they re almost transparent. You Are told zilch about their motivations or backgrounds. Thompson the real life mrs. Deutch and Baker seem to be in the film Only to act As Remote love interests for Sutherland and Liotta. And you know Cutler has gone creatively bankrupt when he tacks on a die hard ending with swat teams helicopters and snotty reporters gathering in Masse to stumble through a climactic scene involving a takeover by the fed up vets and the medical staff a scene that rings preposterously false. The Only moment in the film that seems at All real comes Courtesy of old pro Eli Wallach As a world War ii vet who wistfully thumbs through the photo album of his life As Sutherland sits dumbly nearby. The rest of the films scenes Are simply weightless although most of the actors try hard. The big exception is Sutherland who continues to defy All logic with his ability to find steady work Iri Hollywood despite an acting style that makes a Shrub seem positively manic in comparison. Whitaker Mcginley and Keith David playing a vet in a wheelchair who acts As the hospitals unofficial master of ceremonies All had roles in platoon and Deutch clearly aspires to emulate Oliver Stone in ripping the lid off the vans failings. But this is a Guy whose biggest previous directorial Effort was the sugary teen flick pretty in Pink and he is eminently unsuited for the Job. Article 99 rates 1 i stars a one half each for Liotta Baker and 12 a sunday april 5. 1992
