European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - April 24, 1994, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Video rankings rentals 1 the fugitive Warner Home video 2 in the line of fire Columbia tristan Homo video 3 what s love got to do with it Touchstone Home video 4 the Good son Fox video v 5 demolition Man Warner Home video 6 the Joy Luck club Hollywood Home video 7 striking distance Columbia tristan Home video 8 Carllton s Way Mca in Versal Home video 9 judgment night Mca Universal Home video 10 the age of innocence Columbia to islam Home video sales 1 the fugitive Warner Home video 2 the Fox and the hound Wall Disrley  3 we re Back a Dinosaur s Story Mca Universal Home video 4 the secret Garden Warner Home video 5 Yannul live at the acropolis big Home video 6 Aladdin Walt Disney Home video 7 Playboy College girls Playboy Home video 8 Playboy celebrity Centrefold Dlan Parkinson Playboy Home video 9 Penthouse 25th anniversary swim suit video a vision entertainment 10 Playboy a Loo Centrefold 40th anniversary Playboy Home video children 1 the Fox and the hound Walt Disney Home video 2 we re backs a Dinosaur s Story Mca Universal Home video 3 Aladdin Watt Disney Home video 4 Beauty and the beast Walt Disney Home video 5 the magic voyage hem Dale Home video 6 there goes a Bulldozer a vision entertainment Home video 7 Plano Tchlo Walt Disney Homo video 8 mighty Morphen Green Ranger part 3 poly ram video 9 mighty Morphen vol. 1 Day of the dumpster poly ram video 10 mighty Morphen Green Ranger part 2 poly ram video complied by billboard. The top 20 stateside to shows of april 11-17, according to the . Nielsen co. Season to Date ranking . For first time showing. An x for one time Only presentation or a u for unavailable is in parentheses 1 1 Home improvement  5 these friends of mine  3 Seinfeld  2 60 minutes lbs 7 Fraser  4 Roseann  13 Thunder Alley  u hearts afire  9 x Home improvement rerun  10 8 coach  11 11 Murphy Brown lbs 12 18 prime time live  12 14 20/20  14 16 Northern exposure lbs 15 25 the fresh Prince of Bel air  18 x movie children of the dark lbs 16 21  18 9 murder she wrote lbs 19 42 Law and order  2021 Rescue 911 lbs 20th Century Fox Mara Wilson Robin Williams Matthew Lawrence and Lisa Jakub Star in the comedy mrs. Doubtfire. Is. Doubtfire set for Spring onto video shelves by Dennis Hunt los Angeles times 1 ome video is stepping on the toes of the theatrical Market these Days. The trend seems to be to bring hit movies to video while they re still playing in Heaters. It started with the fugitive whose theatrical life was revived by Oscar nominations. The action drama could have stayed longer in Heaters but instead was whisked to video last month. Now Fox video s mrs. Doub firc which is still playing in Heaters around the country is due in stateside video stores tuesday. And the Sleeper hit of the year Warner s Ace Ventura Porf detective is coming to video on june 14. With the kind of business it s doing this movie which Jias crossed More than $60 million could still a attracting moviegoers this summer. What s happening is that studios Are weighing the revenues of the last stages of a theatrical run against the profit Windfall of a Home video release and Home video is winning. Bruce Pfander Fox video s senior vice president of marketing said the company will ship 8 million copies of mrs. Doubtfire a Gross of $100 million. That s better than it would do in Heaters he said. The Buzz among fitness video buffs there Are fanatics who buy every new one that comes out is that Jackie Joyner Kersee s beyond the Bounds is one of the Best her 50-minute aerobic workout tape is due tuesday at stateside stores. Want to teach your child How to swim you might try Jim Booth s bubbly baby swim video new Market Sale due wednesday. Fans of Aba s outspoken Star Charles Barkley will like sir Charles lbs Fox an informative 50 minute documentary that s part biography and includes interesting footage and interviews. Reviews Bopha Paramount. In tumultuous South Africa in 1980, the family of a police sergeant Danny Glover suffers through its own turmoil As father and son Maynard Ezi Ashi clash politically. Co starring Alfre Woodard it s predictable but still intense and very Well acted. An impressive directorial debut by actor Morgan Freeman. Undercover blues Mem a. Strives to be a witty comedy mystery something like the thin Man movies of the 30s and 40s, but misses badly. Dennis Quaid and Kathleen Turner play Cia agents vacationing in new Orleans. Rarely amusing and Cring singly awful in spots. Or. Wonderful Warner. A Bland a involving romantic comedy about a divorced couple Matt dil Lon and Annabella Sciorra stumbling through other relationships As they fall Back in love. This happens while he s trying to find a husband for her because he s tired of paying Alimony. William Hurt and Mary Louise Parker co Star. The thing called love Paramount. Getting some interest because it s the late River Phoenix s last movie. But Samantha Mathis has the leading role playing a new yorker intent on becoming a Star country Singer songwriter in Nashville. Playing one of her suitors in the romantic tale Phoenix in t very Good and neither is the movie. Ranks with director Peter Bogdanovich s worst movies. The age off innocence Columbia tristan. Director Martin Scorsese s adaptation of Edith whar ton s novel about passions steaming under the Prim exterior of upper class new York in the 1870s. A lawyer Daniel Day Lewis is hopelessly smitten by the Cousin Michelle Pfeiffer of his Fiance e Linoria rider. Marvellously Subtle and elegantly under stated for those who like slow moving dramas. A Bronx tale Hob. Robert de Niro who also has a supporting role is impressive in his directorial debut. Set in the 1960s, it s about a new York youngster portrayed at Ages 9 and 17 who is torn Between his Law abiding father de Niro and a charming gangster Chazz Palminteri a tug of was that grows More intense As he gets older. An absorbing drama with an intriguing subplot about the tensions Between Blacks and italians in new York. Lillo Brancato is excellent As the hero in his teens. Fearless Warner. Surviving a plane crash lifts an architect Jeff Bridges into a strange psychological zone. He drifts away from his wife Isabella Ros Sellini and forms a Strong tie with a fellow survivor Rosie Perez. Directed by Peter Weir it s a fascinating eerie Downer of a movie that grapples with cerebral issues boasting exceptional performances by Bridges and Perez who got an Academy award nomination for her work. Malice new line. Director Harold Becker has made a riveting Glossy a movie. With a rapist on the Loose in a Small town College Community a professor Bill Pullman and his wife Nicole Kidman take in a Boarder Alec Baldwi who s a womanizing sur Geon. Hardly anybody is what he or she seems to be. If you Roll with the twists and some of them Are real stretches you la have a Good time. Cool runnings Disney the adventures of the jamaican bobsled team in the 1988 olympics have been fictionalized and turned into an uplifting kid die oriented Disney comedy. The late John Candy plays the has been coach who has to teach a team of athletes from a hot weather country a cold weather sport. The umpteenth reworking of a formula plot bad news bears the mighty ducks Etc. Visions of Light the Art of cinematography Fox video. These interviews with cinematographers illuminating beautifully filmed sequences from such films As the grapes of Wrath and the last emperor Are a must see feast for film buffs. Page 18 sunday april. 24, 1994