European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - November 8, 1992, Darmstadt, Hesse This weeks film Sattl Ima i rated ii. Lou it go. Met it. Top Catt my Rah a Ait Force Chappy since air. Titi Ihm Chappy Lemi the mid Eitt a Lone end Liln on a Cru Viii drug Cartel ran by a Forster Natl Paul Freeman. Heat helped by three former world War ii flier a Brit curl Klopher Cater Voca German Horst Buch Hoti and a Lavancie Sonny Chiba who re been staging mock dog rights at a nearby air show along for the ride Are Rachel and Phill Lewis. A oboe Ormo rated pg-13. Billed to Tion with an Altitude Quot this film i bated on Haiti up routines by the late Robin Harris. It i about the Day Harris spends in Fenland with a pretty divorce her Small son and three inner City kids from hell Bebe i kids who be been dumped yet again by their largely Absentee mom. Buffy Tho Voth Alro ploy or rated pg-13 vampires arc on the Loose in Southern California and according to a Tiu cd stranger Donald Sutherland the Only one who can Stop them it Buffy Kristy Swansonn air headed cheerleader who d rather mall crawl than slake out the undead. Rutger Hauer is Leader of the Vampire pack Paul Reubens is Hauer s right hand blood sucker teen idol Luke Perry it Buffon Sally. Booth boo omoo nor rated pg-13. Meryl Streep and Goldie hawn play a vain actress and a vengeful author locked in a deadly rivalry. Caught Between them is nerdy plastic surgeon Bruce Willis. On the fringe it a mysterious Beauty Isabella Rossellini who dispenses a certain magic elixir. Director Bob pc Mickis takes our nation s obsession with anti aging creams and cosmetic surgery to surreal i try pcs. Font Oulaw. Tho Bool rated o. This animated film tells the Story of the animals who live in an endangered rain Forest and How in if world and the web of life Are in jeopardy from the forces of it visitation. Of boy i a town up Tho pm rated pm. Comedy. Semi mad Acie Tiit Rick Moranis is taking his experiments in the other direction this time. When the new baby wanders in front of his enlargement Ray the child begins to grow at an alarming Rale. Soon the kid is too big for what s left of the House and begins to pose a problem for the entire country. Also Marcia Strassman. Intr Feofil rated pg-13. Rodney Dangerfield plays an ambitious corporate cog whose Boss guarantees him a promotion if he coaches a 8iris soccer team to the league championship Ince the players Are mostly a Bunch of misfits and Klu ties Dangerfield a Bright is to put in a ringer i.e., a boy in drag to make sure they win. Tho mighty a Soho rated pm. An aggressive and somewhat arrogant lawyer is sentenced to Community service for a drank driving conviction. His assignment is to coach a pc acc hockey least. His determination to instill his winning. Ways into the kids is matched by their resolve to show him How to just have fun. Mom 01m dad Tavra Tho worm rated pm. A Middle aged couple living in California is abducted on their wedding Ann Ivenail and taken on an interplanetary adventure. Now they must save the world. Ten Garr Jeffrey Jones. Or. Salt Simoy night rated r. Billy Crystal is buddy Young a washed up night club comedian who is done in by hit own difficult personality. Also slats David Paymer. Night anti Tho City rated a a remake of Jules Dassin s 1950 cult hit this movie follows in a ii time connived Harry Fabian Robert de Biroas he ties a noose around his own neck. An ambulance chasing lawyer who decides to go into the boxing bit at a promoter Harry manages afoul of anyone with More Power and bite than he has including Alan King As a lethal big timer end Cliff Gorman As a Lough Guy Barkeep whose unhappy wife Jessica Lange is fooling around with Harry. Prowls my to Oktaba rated pg-13. A comic romantic fable featuring the soul kiss of inc Century. Peter Alec Baldwin and Rita Meg Ryan arc Young Urban end totally smitten. But at their wedding a mysterious old Man Sydney Walker plants a kits on Rita and somehow their souls switch. What foil out is a fractured fairy tale and a tribute to True love. Aala stg Crain rated r a child psychologist decides to Kidnap his own daughter and Frame his a wife a Lover for the crime. John Lithgow Lolita Davidovitch. A Alvr act rated to. Whoops Goldberg is on the Lam in a Convent a device that turns this Clever film into the funniest mainstream comedy in who know How Long. Supporting performances by Maggie Smith Kathy Najimy Mary wicket and Wendy Markena. Urow to rage rated r. Tommy Lee Jones is a Toiuo intelligence officer who hijacks the uss Missouri and its nuclear Arsenal. Steven Seagal it a Seal turned Cook who becomes a one Man army determined to regain control of the ship. He mull Stop Jones before he lots the ship s nuclear warheads onto a wailing Vrat a Papfi circuit Altro or the adventures of the great mouse detective pinot chs. Altro pal father of the Bride Blouse Sitter Stop or my mom will shoot straight talk. Tib to tit Batman returns class act Cool world pc lived far and away Fried Green tomatoes Man trouble a stranger among us. Natov my alien Boomerang. Consenting adults deep cover Frankie a Johnny Gladiator Juke lethal weapon 3, Patriot games the player sleepwalkers Universal Soldier unlawful Emily White men can t jump. U-a-------1 Noil Wop nov Roll Kevin Kline Kevin Spacey Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio and Rebecca Miller Star in the thriller consenting adults. Chuck Vinch stall writer on met \ ii Scon Mittong adult sri to r a a a must see wee Worth your time passable entertainment w coming soon to a video outlet near you and you can wait if you heeded the Clarion Call to a a family values Quot during this election Campaign you might want to skip this movie because family values take a thorough beating in director Alan Pakula s tightly wound thriller. It s Tough to talk about in any amount of detail because the Story has startling surprises that if revealed would cause the whole film to unravel for viewers. So starting instead with a sketch of the characters we have Kevin Kline As Richard Parker a Middle aged Good looking athletic composer of commercial jingles who lives in a typically sub Urban wonderland in the heart of America with his attractive wife Priscilla Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio. Then Eddy Otis Kevin Spacey Middle aged Good looking athletic financial adviser moves into the House next door with his attractive wife Kay Rebecca Miller the couples get to know each other gradually developing a Friendship that lakes in such weekend activities As sailing and tossing the football around. It seems harmless and innocent at first but soon there Are flirtatious undercurrents swirling around the four. Richard finds himself lusting for Kay against his will egged on by Eddy. Quot you d like to expletive my wife you Quot Eddy finally asks him. Richard tries to resist but his willpower crumbles and the Guys agree to enter each others House in the dead of night sneak upstairs and do what comes naturally. This entire Section of the movie is like a slow sensuous dance As Pakula ratchets up the tension one know at a time then he opens the throttle As one of the quartet turns out to be a Manj acal Butcher. Someone else is set up to take the fall for a brutal crime that ensues and four lives Are shattered. It s an entertaining Story if you Don t Stop to think about it too much. There Are scenes that come close to being laughable such As the one where two people make love in a room with a roaring fire not Well lit but far from completely dark a and the woman fails to recognize that the Man is not her husband not her familiar neighbor but a Complete stranger. The acting is adequate Spacey makes a convincing nut but Kline a character seems a Little too dense a Little too slow on the Uptake. He succumbs to Eddy a manipulations much too easily. Quot what a classic set up a Richard mumbles Dazely at one Point. And the women especially the talented Mastrantonio Are for the most part reduced to the status of props As with other movies of the psycho sexual killer genre such As fatal attraction and single White female the violence Here is Subtle and intimate As much mental As physical. That makes it feel much More personalized to viewers than it Ever gets in the mindless straight ahead shoot pm up action films of the Schwarzenegger school. Pakula takes consenting adults right to the very precipice of believability but some How just manages to keep from slipping into the pit he does no to clutter up the Story Fine with dead ends a though he does a Semi confusing backtrack at one Point that allows him to work in a genuinely jolting Surprise for viewers. This is an erotic High voltage thriller that moves along at a brisk Pace fires some Blanks but hits the target More often than not. It gets three stars. Page 12 a sunday november 8, 1392 j
