European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - June 7, 1992, Darmstadt, Hesse Kitty movies on video billboard s top 10 videocassette rentals 1 Frankie amp Johnny Paramount Home video2 the last boy scout Warner Home video3 the Fisher King Columbia tristan Home video4 free Jack Warner Home video5 the butchers wife Paramount Home video 6 Juk Warner Home video7 Little Man Tate Orion Home video8 the commitments Fox video 9 deceived Touchstone Home video10 Highlander 2 the quickening Columbia tristan Home video children s videos billboard s top 10 children s videocassette sales 1 101 dalmatians Walt Disney Home video2 Wievel goes West Mca Universal Home video3 the Jungle Book Walt Disney Home video4 fanta Sia Walt Disney Home video 5 tiny Toon adventures How i spent my vacation Warner Home video6 the rescuers Down under Walt Disney Home video7 Dumbo Walt Disney Home video8 the land before time Mca Universal Home video9 an american Tail Mca Universal Home video 10 Peter pan Walt Disney Home video it vision the top 10 to shows in America Tor May 25-31, according to the . Nielsen co. Season to Date ranking or an x for first time showing is in parentheses 1 2 Roseann 2 4 Home improvement 3 1 60 minutes lbs 4 19 20-20 4 6 coach 6 3 Murphy Brown lbs 7 8 full House 8 12 murder she wrote lbs 9 10 unsolved mysteries 10 30 48 hours lbs rub a v Sto pictures Kimberly Williams kisses George new bpm while Steve Martin and Diane Keaton watch in father of the Bride. Vim o i \ ii is by Jack e. Wilkinson United press International father off the Bride 1991. Touchstone Honic video. Rated pg-13. Shoemaker George Banks Steve Martin goes slightly wild and crazy when his daughter announces she a getting married. Once the doting daddy gets Over the Shock that his Little girl has grown up he gets a double whammy when he finds out what the weddings going to Cost starting with a $1,200 cake and going Uphill from there. Suddenly George Banks secs himself As George bankrupt. Eventually he a brought Back to his senses by his beaming wife Diane Keaton realizes his Annie Kimberly Williams has made the right decision even managing to accept a flouncy marriage coordinator Martin Short Matching swans and a whole new set of in Laws some imported a from Denmark. Its an ingratiating remake of Vincente Minnelli a 1950 film that starred Spencer Tracy As the harried father Joan Bennett As the Mother and Elizabeth Taylor As Annie. Tracy a Rock solid patriarch was much different from Martins frenetic fuss budget. But times have changed. Updating without inundating any traditional values of Home and family its pleasant feel Good entertainment. For the boys 1991. Fox video. Rated r. Bette Midler and James Caan play a bickering song and dance team entertaining . Troops in three wars while staging plenty of Good Battles of their own. They Are Dixie and Eddie Darlings of the airways and the boys at the front always about one time step away from breaking up their tenuous relationship finally fractured for Good amid a Vietnam firefight. Covering half a Century loosely the film is primarily a showcase for the bouncy Bette and it zings when she sings As when she mesmerizes a throng of homesick gigs with p s. I love you one moment and has them jumping to stuff like that there the next. But moments of stuff like that there Are too few and far Between and things tend to drag when miss m is not Center stage. Still despite its flaws its an entertaining diversion one that works better on the Small screen. My Al re 1991. Columbia tristan Home video. Rated pm. Even in a minor role Macaulay caulking shows Why he a Hollywood a hottest child Star. Little Mac just about steals the show in this loosely Woven drama entered around the summer of discontent of a precocious 11-year-old hypochondriac named Vada Anna Chlumsky. She a a feisty Tomboy he a her Best Friend and allergic to everything terminally As it turns out. Vada already was trying to learn to Deal with death which literally was All about her. Her father Harry Dan Aykroyd is a mortician and their Home doubles As a funeral parlor. On top of that her Mother died in childbirth and Harry has added to the funereal atmosphere by moping about Ever since. Until that is the new cosmetologist Jamie Lee Curtis reports to work and before you know it someone new is wild about Harry. A gentle sometimes touching sometimes humorous Casy to take film. Troll it madly deeply 1991. Touchstone Home video. Rated pm. Some calling it a thinking Many a ghost. This Well acted British film about a time to Grieve and a time to let go tells of Nina Juliet Stevenson whose world collapses when her Boyfriend Alan Rickman suddenly Dies. As she is finally putting her life Back together and has become interested in another Man her first love abruptly reappears As a ghost. Now Nina has a doozy of a Choice to make. Double crossed 1991. Warner Home video. Not rated. In another of his on the a dec live wired performances Dennis Hopper portrays Barry Seal a convicted drug smuggler who helps the . Government get the goods on the Medellin Cartel Only to be double crossed by his own countrymen with dire results. An intriguing based on fact adventure film. Made for Cable. Poison 1991. Fox lorber Home video. Todd Haynes disturbing film interweaves three talks of torment dealing with a 7-Ycar-old boy who murders his father an infectious loathsome disease and a homosexual prison rape. It contains graphic sex and nudity. Winner of the grand jury prize at the Sundance film festival in Utah and recipient of a controversial $25,000 Grant from the National endowment for the arts the film is being released in three formats a rated nc17 the old a rating and unrated. It played the Heaters unrated but Haynes reluctantly lopped off certain scenes to get the a rat ing which the film had to have to make any video Impact. Many dealers including blockbuster Stock it otherwise. Al Delta summertime video news Steven Spielberg a adventure fantasy Hook with Robin Williams As a grown up Peter pan Dustin Hoffman As Captain Hook and Julia Roberts As tinker Bell reaches Home video on july 24. From Columbia tristan. Earlier Paramount announced an aug. 12 release of Wayne a world. And the Walt Disney whodunit the great mouse detective is due july 17. A the Philadelphia orchestra which supplied most of the music wants half of the Multi million Dollar fantasia video take. According to the Industry Magazine video insider that figure could hit $60 million. The orchestra is suing the Walt Disney co. And subsidiary Buena Vista Home video Over the video release of the 1940 classic claiming it deserves half the profits because of its role in helping make the movie and did not give permission for its videocassette and laser disc distribution. A record 14 million copies of the film have been sold in the United states alone. The suites Outlook however is in doubt. David Pittinsky an attorney for the orchestra says Disney has not replied to the allegations and the Case is a Long Way from reaching a courtroom. This and similar suits provide an interesting question since they involve films whose contracts were written before the invention of Home video. June 7, 1992 sunday a Page 17
