European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - April 5, 1992, Darmstadt, Hesse Home entertainment billboard s top 10 videocassette rentals 1 boy n the Hood Columbia tristan Home video 2 Thelma amp Louise Mem a Home video 3 dead again Paramount Home video 4 regarding Henry Paramount Home video 5 the rocketeer Walt Disney Home video 6 the doctor Touchstone Home video 7 Point break foxvideo8 Don t Tell mom the babysitters dead Hob video9 other Peoples Money Warner Home video 10 Barton Fink Fox video billboard s top 10 music videocassette sales 1 Garth Brooks Garth brooks2 we will Rock you queen3 live at the Al Moc Ambo Stevie Ray Vaughan 4 three tenors in concert Carreras Domingo pavarotti5 into the Light world tour Gloria estefan6 the heart in motion Amy Grant 7 captivated Paula abdul8 Moon shadows Enya 9 two rooms various artists 10 unforgettable Natalie Cole the top 10 to shows in America for March 2329, according to the . Nielsen co. Season to Date ranking is in parentheses 1 2 Roseann 2 1 60 minutes lbs 3 16 Northern exposure lbs 4 3 Murphy Brown lbs 5 7 Home improvement 6 6 designing women lbs 7 4 room Tor two abc8 23 2020 9 11 unsolved mysteries 9 9 full House abc9 5 cheers Oscar Winner Mercedes Ruchla and Amanda Plummer discuss life Over a manicure in the Fisher King. \ Idi Al \ ii w s by Jack e. Wilkinson United press International the Fisher King 1991. Columbia tristan Home video. Rated r. Terry Gilliam a eccentric glittering parable alternately chaotic and charming tells of two tormented souls bound by a single tragedy who eventually discover life is Worth living after All. Jack Jeff Bridges is an arrogant radio talk show Host until his flippant advice to one listener touches off a killing spree. That sends him off the deep end into a ruins Ous run of too much drinking to blot out too much thinking. Parry Robin Williams is a feisty delusional derelict once a history professor now hiding in a world of his own making jousting with imaginary knights searching for the holy grail on the streets of Manhattan. In an Effort to rekindle Hope in his own life Jack gets Parry a Date with an equally lonely woman Amanda Plummer he has Long admired from afar and hatches a Wacky plot to steal the grail. Oscar Winner Mercedes Ruehl is a major Illus As jacks Long suffering Girlfriend. Gilliam a member of the Monty Python troupe lays on the fantasy a bit thick at times and his film is too Long but generally its a most interesting excursion. Williams is right at Home among the weirdos and he goes All out As usual with a Fine performance that netted him a Best actor Oscar nomination. Rambling Rose 1991. Live Home video. Rated r. The Hilly Crsp genteel Southern household is turned upside Down when Rose Laura dem moves in to care for their children in this engaging Small town drama. She san innocent alluring woman child a Long legged temptress who can to restrain her supercharged sexuality. As she explains Dol fully a i am Only a human girl person and i ainu to always perfect. She has a profound at times scandalous effect on people like a a daddy Robert Duval whose traditional values get a severe test his protective understanding wife Diane Ladd and their precocious 13-year-old son Lukas Haas who finds her a Heady blend of fantasy and mystery. Laura dem does a dam Good Job and landed a Best actress Oscar nomination. Diane Ladd her real life Mother was nominated for Best supporting actress. The super 1991. Fox video. Rated r. Joe Pesci stars in this Light bouncy predictable comedy about the son of a slumlords sentenced to live in his own rundown building until he fixes it up. Jail would have been better. Pescio a Louie Gritski is just like his old Man Vincent Gardenia at first demanding Money and offering scorn in return but his frosty indifference begins to melt when he has to live there. Little things like marauding rats overflowing toilets freezing nights and falling through the floor get the message across. Dear old dad meanwhile wants to bum Down the dump. Pesci is funny in any setting and is fun to watch even when his material sags. Paradis 1991. Touchstone Home video. Rated pg-13. Melanie Griffith and Don Johnson play a couple who find the Small Southern town of Paradise anything but. They being pulled apart by the death of their Young son. She sews and stews he fishes and frets and their marriage is just about ready to go Down the Drain. It takes a Wise 10-Ycar-old Elija woo who a left in their care for the summer by a Friend to pull them Back together. Based on the French film la grand Chwmin it has few surprises and at times gets syrupy but has genuinely emotional highs that blend Well with Youthful humor. Griffith and Johnson effective in what for them unusual surroundings. In the Vintage Corner i am a fugitive from a Chain gang 1932. Mem a Home video. Paul Muni stars As an innocent Man unjustly convicted and brutalized by the criminal Justice system a fact based stunner that ignited protests leading to penal Reform. Sixty years later it still makes a powerful statement. King a Row 1942. Mem a Home video. A bold cutting Edge look at Small town corruption ahead of its time and still timely with Sharp characterizations and a memorable score by Erich Wolfgang Komold. Ronald Reagan in his finest performance Heads a remarkable cast of Robert Cummings Ann Sheridan Betty Field Charles Coburn Claude Rains and Judith Anderson. I dolts while such theatrical blockbusters As terminator 2, Home alone fantasia and Thelma amp Louise can be assured of continued Success on Home video the Small screen often Means a second Chance for the film that never quite finds its audience in movie houses or is buried by unfortunate timing. A Good example is defenceless a Well done Multi angled thriller that earned Only s6.4 million during its theatrical release yet is one of the Bright new entries on the video Market. Mobsters with its attractive Young cast did Only so so at the Box office but was among billboards elite for More than a month. . Warshawski featuring Kathleen Turner As a private Eye fared poorly in the Heaters but has been a hot renter since its debut on video last november. Disney a Unsung wild hearts can to do broken is doing much better than expected. Warner Home video sets sail May 13 with Christopher Columbus an Early Salute to the 500th anniversary of Columbus voyage to America. The two hour theatrical version of the six hour in min i scrips stars Gabriel Byrne Faye Dunaway Max Van Sydow and Eli Wallach. Playboy Home video is entering the rental Market with inside out a collection of nine vignettes focused on what it Calls a the often bizarre twists and turns in the relationships Between women and men. Due thursday stateside. April 5, 1992 sunday a Page 17
