European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - August 01, 1993, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Short takes til Advant Raa of muck firm to. Adaption or Murk Twain s classic with Elijah Wood at muck and Courtney d. Vance n Jim i runaway Lave with Price on his head. Aia Aldori o. This mural successor to Disney s Beauly ind the bet Laott More than expand the vis Ual boundaries of mainstream animation and its possibilities  humor. A my Yaat Arday to. A crooked Rich Guy hires a journalist to Tutor his mistress who it cute yet Semi illiterate. Melanie Griffith and John Goodman. Captain Man Po-13. Stressed out elective Martin Short inherit fabulous Sailboat and plans to Lake his uptight family on a cruise. It Chaplin Pou. Robert Downey it. Dons funny Mustache to play the silent film Star in this epic Bio Pic directed by Richard Attenborough. Tha Cru Ash r. When 13-year-old girl becomes obsessed with television writer living in her parents House his life is turned into a shamble dry Ellet and Alicia Silverstone. W cop Ana half to. Burt Reynold i plays a burned out detective who must work with an 8-year old to solve a crime. Norman Golden plays the boy. Tha dark half a based on Stephen King s Best seller about an author and his murderous sub conscious. Timothy Hutton and Amy Madigan. Beat beam a mar pg-1j. In this tale of vanity and vengeance we explore the limits to which two Middle age beauties will go to keep their looks. Goldie hawn and meryl Streep. Oanna tha Manaea to. Hank Ketcham s Ever popular comic strip Comet to life about the innocent looking kid whose every move results in trouble. Walter Matthau and Christopher Lloyd. Falling Dawn it. A Aid off defense worker Michael Douglas estranged from his wife and Daugh Ter loses it one Day. A far off Plaza Po-13. Two teen age friends Are forced into the wilderness by gang of poachers and undertake a 1,000-mile trek across the Kalahari de Sert. A Faw Soaad Man r. Entered around murder trial inside military courtroom Tom cruise and Jack Nicholson give powerful performances. Flora in lha try r. Five Arizona loggers witness the temporary abduction of one of their own by 4 ufos. . Sweeney and Robert Patrick. Tha firm r. This Story focuses on fhe dilemma of an idealistic Young lawyer who gets caught Between his firm and the fill. Tom cruise and Gene Hack Man. We. Braun deaf Day pg-13. Bill Murray Andie Mcdowell and Chris Elliott get together in this roman tic comedy a it Vuk Naar a Bill r. The sounds of silence turn to Ter ror for a deaf woman. . Sweeney and Marle Eind agent 9 a Amaal a Robert Redford plays charismatic financier who Offert the happily married couple Woody Harrelson and Demi Moore Cool million if she will spend just one night with him. N lha Una of Flora r. This thriller pits Maverick secret service agent Frank Horrigan Clint Eastwood against an Assassin John Malkovych who has sworn to kill the president. Indian summar pg-13. Adults in their mid-30t return to their old summer Camp in Ontario for re Union and to reminisce about their childhood. Alan Arkin and Vincent  action Mara pg-13. Austin o Brien plays Young movie fan who joins his favorite movie hero Arnold Schwarzenegger on screen. Anthony Quinn and Mercedes Ruehl. Mad Dag Ana Oley r. When the facetiously named mad dog Robert de Niro accidentally saves the life of local mobster Frank Milo Bill Mur Ramilo gives him glory Uma Thurman for one week. Married la it pg-13, comedy involving three Cou Ples and school fund Raiser. Eau Bridges and stockard Channing. Faint Afna return r. Bridget Fonda plays a Young murderess who gets reprieve from death Row to become High level Assassin then has Cri Sis of conscience Gabriel Byrne Anne Bancroft and Harvey Keitel. Tha Sandal pm. Comedy that pits baseball play ing kids against a mystery beyond the right Field Wall. Karen Allen and James Earl Jones. W cant of Waman r. A scholarship student from a nearby prep school is hired to take care of Blind retired air Force officer for the thanksgiving weekend and ends up accompanying him on Abend or in Manhattan. A Pacino. Sld Kalcka pm. Aaron Norris directs brother Chuck in a Flat fantasy about a super Chuck Norris fan who meets his idol and gels his life straightened out. Joe Piscopo and Beau Bridget. Lara Lake in Taat la pm. Tom Hanks Start at a widower in Seattle whose Bright Young ton Rost Malinger goes to great lengths to find the perfect woman Meg Kyan for his dad. We liver r. Sharon Stone plays a successful single woman who moves into a High Rise Little knowing it is the tile of mysterious deals. She also does t know that the owner with whom she becomes involved has secret cameras in every room. William Baldwin. It Ammeraal pg-13. Richard Gere is a gentleman who returns from the civil War to a Hometown whose residents wonder is he tally the Man he says he ii Jodie Foster Bill Pullman and James Carl Jones help them find out.  Nalra pg-13. Comedy of mistaken Iden Tity Eric Idle plays the unfortunate soul whom switched at birth and deprived of his Dukedom. Treat Knight r. An i cop goes against organized criminals trying to Start a gang War Between Black and hispanic gangs. Jeff Speakman and Christopher name. Super Maria Braa. To. Bob Hoskins and John la Gulamo Pom a Nintendo s italian plumbers who go up against a Wiluin played by Dennis Hopper. Under Slaga k. The battleship Missouri is Cap tured by terrorists intent on telling nuclear War Heads. Steven Seagal and Tommy la e Jones. Unla mad Nazart h. Christian Slater plays a min Neapolis by buy who uses every ounce of his heart to win Over a Waitr ii played by mama Tomei. Ratings by staff writer Chuck Vinch. Mason Adams plays grandpa Warner who tries to figure out crawl portrayed by Pauly Shore in Soa in Law. Buena Vista Chuck Vinch staff writer on movies son in Law rated pg-13 must see Worth your time passable entertainment coming soon to a video outlet near you and you can wait in the annals of comedy going Back to when the first Caveman got his hairy buddies to chuckle by bopping another Guy on the head with a club it would be hard to find a comedian with an act As threadbare As Pauly Shore s. Shore first surfaced in America s pop culture consciousness a couple of years ago As the self styled weasel of mtg. His shtick consists wholly of adopting a stoned Beach Punk Persona and spouting a twisted kind of surfer patois that leans heavily on adding the suffix age to various words. Pretty girls for example Are  food is  Etc Etera and Infin Tum and Nau Seum and vomits. At the risk of sounding like my Par ends if you think that kind of thing is funny you must be a teen Ager. But teen agers Are still just one Seg ment of the movie Market so Shore s attempt to make it big in Hollywood is Likely to be a lot bumper than his ride to whatever passes for Fame on mtg. Son in Law is a step up from his debut the idiotic enema a an but that s like saying food poisoning is relatively less hazardous than radiation exposure. The hoary fish out of water theme a longtime Staple of the Hollywood cliche closet is brought out of cold storage for this film sluggishly directed by the hapless Steve lash and cobbled together by a committee of six people you be never heard of and will never hear of again. Cute College freshman Rebecca War Ner newcomer Carla Gugino is a naive farm girl from South Dakota who is trying to adjust to the weird Ness of College life in Southern California. But she finds the fast Lane in the big City to be too overwhelming. She s about to pack it in and head Home to her steady Guy Travis Dan Gauthie who s working at the feed store while waiting for her to come to her senses and Settle Down with him. Then she develops an offbeat Friend ship with crawl Shore the Freak Zoid who lives across the Hall in her dorm. Faster than you can say Radical dude crawl convinces her to stick it out. He takes her under his Wing get Ting her to change her hair color her clothes and her general Outlook on life. He even encourages her to get a taste Ful Little Butterfly Tattoo. Then comes thanksgiving break. When Rebecca learns that crawl will be spending the Holiday alone in the dorm she encourages him to come Home with her. He hits town singing the theme from Green acres and life in the staid Rural Community will never be the same. The rest of the film is a Riff on the hackneyed premise of an outsider getting the Stuffy natives to loosen up and enjoy life. Underneath his Weirdo exterior crawl is really a Nice Guy so along the Way he manages to Patch up every festering problem Rebecca s family has. He reignite the passion Between her parents Walter and Connie Lane Smith and Cindy Pickett Veteran to and movie character actors who Are really scraping the Bottom of the barrel Here. He Bridges the gaps that have devel oped Between Walter and his father Mason Adams As Well As his pre teen son Patrick Renna. And he helps re Becca fend off the Slimy Travis who is none too Happy about this goofball who has upset All his marriage plans. I will admit to having laughed once of twice at some of Shore s an tics very Early in this movie. When he first meets Rebecca s Grandfather whittling Wood in a rocking chair on the porch crawl blurts hey Are you bar Tyles or James love your wine Cool ers but most of the jokes Are along the lines of Walter repeatedly referring to crawl As Crotch or crawl getting soaked with urine while trying to milk a cow. The drawback of a one note act such As Shore s is that it gets repetitive in a big hurry. When he s on mtg i can just change the Channel after five min utes. In the theater i was stuck squirm ing in my seat for Over an hour praying for the merciful end to arrive. The simplistic and simple minded so a a la gets one Star Only because i was once a teen Ager too. Page 12 sunday August 1. 1993