European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - December 6, 1992, Darmstadt, Hesse                                This weeks film Page 12siiok i Akl s a to a kids rated pg-13. This self billed Quot animation with an attitude a based on stand up routines by the late Robin Harris follows a Day Harris spends in Fenland with a pretty Divorcee her Small son and three inner City kids. Boomerang rated r. Eddie Murphy plays a womanizing exec who meets his match in his new Boss Robin Givens sultry sophisticated . Also Halle Berry. Cool world rated pg-13. A cartoonist Gabriel Byrne is drawn into an alternative cartoon universe by a sex pot Doodle named Holli would Kim Basinger a voice then her body. Death becomes Hor rated pg-13. A wicked sick joke movie that blends the Black wit of Billy Wilder with special effects. 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. Frod Dlo f.b.o.7 rated g. A feature length animated film about a secret agent Frog voice by Ben Kingsley who must save the United kingdom. Tit Oun in Batty Louis handbag rated pg-13. Ignored by her policeman husband and bored with her Job at the Library Betty Lou seems resigned to her Fate. But when she stumbles across a murder weapon an idea is born a Betty Lou confesses to the crime. Penelope Miller Eric thai. Honor i blow up Tho kid rated pm. Comedy. So Mimas scientist 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 rate. 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. Lotholz Wooton 3 rated r. Manic Gung to Mel Gibson and compassionate stable Danny Glover mix it up one More time in this sequel. Night and tha City rated r. A remake of Jules Dassin s 1950 cult hit this movie follows Small time Connie or Harry Fabian Robert do Biroas he tics a noose around his own neck. An ambulance chasing lawyer who decides to go into the boxing Biz As a promoter Harry manages to run afoul of anyone with More Power and bite than he has including Alan King As a lethal big timer and Cliff Gorman As a Tough Guy bark cup whose unhappy wife Jessica Lange is fooling around with Harry a out on a limb rated pm. Matthew Broderick plays a financial Whiz summoned to a Remote logging town named Buzzsaw by his Little sister. Ii seems she has overheard an Exchange Between her no Good Stepfather Jeffrey Jones and his even worse evil twin Jones and one of them s going to end up dead. Pos Songor 37 rated r. When terrorists take Over flight 163 at 30,000 feet the one thing they did t count on is Wesley Snipes. He plays an off duty Security Whiz who happens to be on the same flight As an International terrorist Bruce Payne who with the help of some carefully planted cohorts takes Over the plane. Palud to a Klas rated pg-13. A comic romantic fable featuring the soul kiss of the Century. Peter Alee Baldwin and Rita Meg Ryan arc Young Urban and totally smitten. But at their wedding a mysterious old Man Sydney Walker plants a kiss on Rita and somehow their souls switch. What follows is a fractured fairy talc and a tribute to True love. Nosing Cain rated r. John Lithgow is a child shrink with a cute daughter an even cuter wife Lolita Davidovich and some not so cute multiple personalities. The Story begins when he decides to Kidnap his daughter. Naple fro rated r. Following in the formidable footwork of his dad martial arts legend Bruce Lebrandon Lee plays a College student who finds himself in the Middle of a War Between rival drug lords. A Anglo Whit Famalou rated r. Bridget Fonda is a new girl in new York with a huge rent controlled apartment on the upper West Side and a shy new Roc Mic Jennifer Jason Leigh who turns out to have a few screws Loose Bis tar act rated pm. Whoops Goldberg is on the Lam in a Convent a device that turns this Clever film into the funniest mainstream comedy in who knows How Long. Supporting performances by Maggie Smith. Kathy Najimy maty Wiecks and Wendy Makk Cna. Universal Soldier rated r. When a reporter discovers a plot to or ate perfect soldiers from the bodies of dead ones the order is Given to make sure this news in t made Public. Jean Claude Van Damme and Dolph Lundgrin Are the resurrected lighting machines of the future who wind up battling Emit other. Whit Sands rated r. Action. Nothing much happens in this Small new Mexico town until a murder investigation turns up evidence that seems to implicate the Fri Willem Dafoe sets himself up As a target with a suitcase full of Money to hush out the truth. Also Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio. Also on the cafes circuit rated Al All i want for Christmas Lac great mouse detective for Gully. The East rain Forest Little Nemo adv Stutes in Slumberland pinocchio Rock a Doodle. Natad pal Stop or my mom will shoot 3 ninja kids. Navid pg-131 Buffy the Vampire Slayer Christopher Columbus the discovery City of Joy stay i uned. Ratio no Frankie amp Johnny free Jack the hand that rocks the Cradle Jentter 8, the Lawnmower Man Man trouble to Money passenger 57, sleepwalkers unlawful entry whispers in the dark. White men can t jump. Winona Ryder top As Elisabeta and Sadie Frost As Lucy put their Heads together in Bram stokers Dracula. Columbia Chuck Vinch of s. Stall writer on Mon ii scram stokers Dracula rated a k k ,2 a a a a must see a Worth your time a passable entertainment a coming soon to a video outlet near you and you can wait its 1462 and Prince Vlad of Transylvania is wading in blood to defend god and christianity by slaughtering hundreds of turks invading his Homeland. But when the victorious Warrior returns Home he finds that his True love has thrown herself from the Castle ramparts after receiving a bogus note announcing the death of her Prince in Battle. Needless to say Vlad is not Happy. In a fit of rage he renounces his god and swears to fight All that his religion stands for throughout eternity As the dreaded count Dracula a the ultimate creature of the night. Those Are the foundations of director Francis Ford Coppola a elaborate Beautiful Dracula. Bram stokers 1897 Book has been a Hollywood Staple since the silent film Era when Nosferatu popularized the Dracula myth. But none of the More than 100 big Sereen Vampire movies not even the classic 1930s Bela Lugosi version has packed a punch As powerful As Coppola a hair raising rendition of the tale. From the opening scenes of billowing Clouds and crumbling crucifixes to its blood spattered Climax this is the Standard that future Vampire films Are measured by. The movies look is nothing Short of stunning. Cinematographer Michael Ballhaus costumer Ekin Ikioka and set designer Thomas Sanders Combine to produce a visual feast of surrealistic images and unique effects. They Are brought to life by an excellent cast led by English actor Gary Oldman As Dracula who gives the performance of his superlative but unheralded career. This is his show and he makes the most of it playing the count As an agonized eternally damned romantic. In Transylvania Dracula is a wizened but still deadly mandarin with Long fingernails an other world Hairdo and a laugh that could chill hell. In London he adopts the look of a Young foppish aristocrat favouring High top hats and pretentious Blue glasses a when he a not gliding through the night As a Wolf like beast or a Gargoyle. Unlike the a movie treatments of the Dracula legend a embodied by the campy British 1960s near parodies starring Christopher Lee and Peter Cushing a Coppola hews faithfully to stokers novel. That Isnit easy since the Hook is not a flowing narrative but rather bits and pieces of various journals and correspondence penned by the principal characters. Once the opening medieval sequence is played out the film picks up again in 1897, when real estate broker Jonathan Darker Keanu Reeves visits Transylvania to discuss the counts property holdings in London. Dracula happens to see a photo of Harker a Fiance Mina Murray Winona Ryder virtual double of his Long dead Princess Elisabeta Ryder also plays that role in the opening scene Sand decides he must go to London to reclaim his love. The Story then moves Back and Forth Between Transylvania and London As Harker seeks to save Mina and stamp out the Vampire Scourge forever aided by a compatriots. They include or. Abraham Van Helsing Anthony Hopkin Arthur Holmwood Cary Elwe Sand Jack Seward Richard Grant. Coppola switches moods masterfully. There Are plenty of frightening scenes but there a also a fair amount of campy humor much of it supplied by Hopkins. When Mina asks Van Helsing if one of Dracula a victims was in great pain he nonchalantly replies a yes but then we Cut off her head and she found  the theme of stokers novel is the repressed moral atmosphere of victorian England and Coppola seizes on that to build a tense sexual undercurrent that accounts for some of the films most searing moments. In one scene Dracula in his beast incarnation populates with Minass Friend Lucy Sadie Frost during a driving thunderstorm. In another three of the counts nubile female minions seek to make a feast of their prisoner Harker. In recent years Coppola has found it Tough to rekindle the kind of Success he enjoyed with apocalypse now and the first two godfather films but he a in Peak form Here. By turns erotic repulsive mesmerizing and just Plain gut wrenching this Dracula is a gothic Triumph. It gets 31/2 stars. A sunday december 6, 1992