European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - December 5, 1993, Darmstadt, Hesse This weeks film Short takes and tatar Tea Lipaut poll. Richard Dreyfus and Emilio Estevez Star Ai Seattle police detectives along with Rosie o Donnell. Amant ratify Vatera pg-13, practically eve 1 Tryone returns Anjelica he Iron. Raul Julia Christopher Lloyd the kids. Baby Hubert is the cuddly tie. Addition to the clan. Fester has a crush on new Nan a Joan Cusack a a the Avary to. Jim Varney Heads a cast that also includes Lily Tomlin and Cloris a. A Hainan than Man r. Cop Sylvester Stallone and villain Wesley Snipes arc cryogenically Frozen fur their respective crimes. Adat Tytla tha Mariana pm. Walter Matthau and Christ plier Lloyd. Palling Datum it. A defense worker Michael Douglas estranged from his wife and daughter loses it one Day. A. Patti hoax Po-13. A lovable Crook of a dad Patrick Swaynie Springs his kids from an abusive child care institution. Para Willy Pq-13. A boy Jason James Richter. With a troubled past Bonds with a killer whale. Happily Israr Attar o. Animated sequel to Snow White and the seven dwarfs. A a Marp target r. Fast action and wild stunts prevail As Jean Claude Van Damme. Maart an Paula pg-13. Eat surf die and get a second Chance. Robert Downey jr., Charles Grodon and Kyra Sedgwick. Kaaua pacts pm Bette m idler Sarah Jessica Parker and Kathy Kijima Vamp it up As 17th-Century witches returned to haunt Modem times. Ham Alan it last in Nassr Yaroli sequel is an attempt to duplicate the original Home alone. A Aham Atwara daunt i Tea incr aim Danamay a three pets become separated from their owners and must make a perilous trip Back Home aaa Japan 0a a Haiti tha Pinal Pray r. Your favorite hockey masked maniac Jason Dura Aal Paris pg-13. A sure Oscar nominee Lor special effects. Aaa a. Last Aztlan Hare pg-13. Austin of Brien plays a Young movie fan who joins his favorite movie hero Arnold Schwarzenegger on screen. Aa1a in the Lina at fir r. This thriller pits Maverick secret service agent Frank Iworrigan Clint Eastwood against an Assassin John Malkovich. Kaaa. A. A a Laapas Faith pg-13. Sieve Martin stars As a phony Faith healer. With Debra Winger a mad in Marlea Po-13. Whoops Goldberg and Ted Danson. See Page 18. Malic r. Alec Baldwin Bill Pullman and Nicole Kidman Star in this so so thriller that seems mostly rehashed from earlier thrillers. Aavik or. Won earful pg-13. Romantic comedy starring Milt Dillon and Annabella Sciorra. Aaa my Dayt Lana a Bach Po-13. Johnny Dingle is so in love with Missy Mccloud that he would die for her. A. A Naad Ful thing r. Stephen Kings Best seller about a demonic gift shop owner Mai von Sydow and Leland gaunt. A a. One Upan a Portal g. Hanna Barbera Spirsi entry in the animated feature Market since the 1990 jetsam the movie is never terrible it just feels Hyt. Then Umbers. Tha program r. James Caen stars As a University football coach who tries to whip his helmeted Brood into winners. Tha sacral oar Dan g. Agnieszka Holland s version of How child ten Are made whole by the natural world. Poetic Jutt Lea pm. The writer Dirc Clor John sin 5leton followed up his impressive debut a Joy n the it he with inti new drama starring Janet Jackson. Plan Accel g. The Disney classic is Back on the bilk screen to let another generation in on the magical / v tale of the Little puppet who wants to become a toy. Hiking gun r. Two detectives Sean Connery and Wesley Snipes investigate when a dead woman it found in the . Head Quirton of a japanese corporation. Cha Cap s pg-13. Now that it hat reached its third instalment strict his become wearying in its punched up violence and melodrama and As mechanical As its cyborg hero. Robed John Burke. A Rabin a cedi Man in tight pg-13. Mel Brooks foray into Sherwood Forest. A. Glad pm in Taafel pm. Tom Hanks stars As a widower in Seattle whose Bright Young son rom Malinger goes to great lengths to find the perfect woman Meg Ryan for him dad. A to Lav r. Tom Berenger is s hardened Marine sniper with Billy Zinc in a Panama Jungle Shaaw Whit and tha Tavan Warta 0.1937 animated clinic. A a a i married an a murderer pg-13. Confirmed Bachelor Linds the perfect girl a Only the 1 May be y serial killer Mike Myers Nancy Travis Anthony Lapaglia and Amanda Plummer. Ten in Law pg-13. Pauly Shore mtg s Eye Lahja stretching Denizen of dudes Villa shocks South Dakota by snowing up As the prospective husband of a local valedictorian Tum cd la. But Lei Fly. A birthing dle Lanca r. Diverting fast moving action filled mystery thriller to provide a solid role for Bice Willis As a mightily beleaguered highly principled Pittsburgh cop. Aaa Lurf no Rajaa to Kuna fun surfing a yeah that a the ticket. Ernie Reyes Leslie Nielsen Tunc lot and Rob Schneider. A 1 the Thra Muff Catuara pm. Our daring swashbucklers Are on a Mission to prevent the overthrow of the King. Charlie Sheen and Kiefer Sutherland. A a h. Clint Eastwood produces directs and stars in this Stark Western epic about two gunslingers who come out of retirement to round up a few bad Guys for the Reward Money. Kaaa ratings by Chuck Vinch. Warn 8ro#. Clint Eastwood and Laura Dern arc on the Trail of an escaped convict played by Kevin Costner in a perfect world. Chuck Vinch staff write Ron Movik a perfect world rated pg-13 a a a must see aaa Worth your 11 Tia a a passable entertainment a coming soon to a video outlet near you and you can wait the Prospect of seeing screen icons Kevin Costner and Clint Eastwood work together is enough to thrill any dedicated movie fan. But this Laboured and overlong film which Eastwood also directed is hardly a showcase for either actor. The film starts in Dallas in late 1963, just weeks before the Kennedy assassination this Point is raised briefly but like so Many other plot threads goes absolutely nowhere. Costner plays Butch Haynes a convict who escapes from prison and takes 8-year-old Phil Imp Perry . Lowther hostage. Eastwood is red Garnett a Texas Ranger assigned to Hunt Butch Down. The focus of the Story is the unlikely father son Bond that grows Between Butch and Phillip. The boy lives with his single Mother a devout Jehovah a witness who forbids All manner of frivolity including trick or treating and birthday celebrations. The convict had a different sort of troubled childhood. His Mother was a prostitute in a new Orleans whorehouse and his Absentee father was a Small time Hood. Phiillip instinctively knows that Butch is not one of the Good Guys but the convict represents an irresistible Chance to experience All the Joys of childhood that his dour Mother has do Nied him. Throughout the film Butch gives him numerous opportunities to abandon the adventure and return Home but each time the boy opts to stick around. The most annoying aspect of the film is its Structure which has Butch and Garnett proceeding on parallel tracks. For the most part Eastwood is reduced mainly to trading verbal zingers with Laura dem. Dernus character criminal psychologist Salty Gerber has been assigned to the manhunt by the governor. Gerber is a feminist ahead of her time who has problems with the rangers Brand of Cranky Frontier chauvinism. Her exchanges with Garnett spark some of Eastwood s lamest lines in recent memory. A if you be got something in your Craw spit it out Quot he snaps at Sally whom be actually Calls in another scene when she talks of the Quot penal escape situation Quot he retorts a this Isnit a penal escape situation its a Eastwood a scenes Are so a compel Ling that they actually seem like intrusions upon Costner a screen time. Co Toner can be insufferably cute but he is Well suited to this Antihero character whose personality is an Odd mix of kindness and violence. He is supported admirably by Lowther one of the most natural and believable child actors to come along in quite a while. Eastwood the director docs a Fine Job of highlighting the ambivalent feelings Lowthers character has for Haynes. When Butch is spotted by local cops after stopping for supplies he screeches up in the getaway car while Phillip stands Frozen in the doorway of the store knowing full Well he could step Back and Bow out of this thrill ride. A it s up to you Quot Butch shouts. In the Span of three seconds All the uncertainties and insecurities of youth Flash across Lowthers face. Moments like that keep the film from being a total bust. But its surprising How Many subplots seem to Deaden in a 214-hour film with such a relatively simple premise. One example Garnett reveals that he had a hand in Landing the teen age Butch in Reform school years before but this half baked theme of the Lon term ramifications of juvenile discipline drops from View almost As quickly As its raised. Coming on the heels of the raves he garnered for unforgiven and in the line of fire a perfect world is a curious stumble for Eastwood one of the saw Iest veterans in the movie Biz. It gets two stars mostly for Lowthers Fine performance. Parents note the films pg-13 rating no doubt Given to boost profits by capitalizing on the Box office Appeal of Costner and Eastwood is far too lenient. With scenes of attempted child molestation the threatened massacre of a sharecroppers family including a 6-year-old boy and two vivid shootings an r rating would have been wholly appropriate. Page 12 sunday. December 5, 1393
