European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - May 22, 1994, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Shoki takes  Pat Datactlvapg-13. Jim car icy of in living color Fame makes his starring debut As a detective who specializes in locating lost pets. The Adan turn a of who Traat mows die it Elva g. Entertaining and detailed cartoon adventures of a minuscule Sherlock inn rodent Sleuth. The air up Thoro pm. Fir Kenya an assistant basketball coach is looking for the nest superstar. Kevinbacon., a. A bad a Lola r. Fanir women of the old West become Gurr fighters to win Back their Money rights and dig nity. Madeleine Stowe Mary Stuart Masterson a. Andie Macdow ii and Drew Barrymore. Aaa Blank Chack pm. A 9-Ycar-old boy is mistakenly Given a signed Blank Check and fills in the amount a for i million Miguiel Ferrer. Blink  woman Blind at birth witnesses a murder after regaining her sight through a Radical operation. Aldan Quinn and Madeleine Stowe . Blua Chip pm a Nick Nolle stars As a College basketball coach who must walk a Fine line in ins re Cruz Emertt of new players. Shaquille o Neal makes  his acting debut. A a. Chiara  couple of mismatched Navy Shore patrolmen gel an assignment to escort a prisoner Erika Elc Niak to the base. Tom Bercy Tiger and William Mcnamara. F. China Moon r. A Small town detective Falls for a Rich married woman and remains blindly in love until he has to investigate a murder he d rather not solve. Red Harris and Madeleine Stowe. D2r tit mighty Duck pm. Once again an energetic Emilio Estevez is coaching his pet Swec tee hockey team. A 1 . Death with St fac of death Rcharles Bron. Son a now lit his 70s a. Returns Mure absurdly stoic than Ever. A. B soon Ali pg-13, based on the real life Story of a Lane Frost arid the unpredictable world of he  Rodeo Luke Perry and cinthia Geary. For Lovo or Money pm. Michael j. Fox works magic for a hotel s wealthy guest. Fro o witty pg-13, a boy Jason James Richter with a troubled past Bonds with a killer whale. Tho Gorowoy r. Alec Baldwin is a hardened criminal who will do anything Tuge out of jail Kim Basinger is ills wife and will do anything to help him. Law . Roo cry pg-13. Money hungry relatives fight for. The immense Fortune of eccentric Kirk Douglas. Also Mighuel j. Fox. A. A  Grumpy old Mon Po-13. Jack Lemmon and Walter Matthau Star in this  comedy but it s fun to see their chemistry  guard Long to pg-13. Nicolas Cage is the special agent m charge of the secret service detail assigned. To guard the widow Shirley Maclaine of a former . President. A a i. A a. I la do anything pg-13, part romantic comedy part skewering of in plywood part tribute to actors and part prickly father daughter relationship. Funny. And Well acted especially by Nick Nulter and Albert. Brooks. A  . A Sintora Ortlon r. Torn Between two women Rich Arr Gere wonders if he made the right decision when he comes in the intersection in has life. Sharon Stone. A. A. Iron will pm. A Young Man enters a Cross country. Dog sled race to save the family farm. Mackenzie Astin. Aaa. A lightning Jock pg-13. A bungling outlaw teams a up with a perceptive mute partner to enjoy a life of crime. Paul Hogan and Cuba Gooding. A a molar  pm the inevitable sequel to the 1989 baseball hit1 a so so comedy. Charlie Sheen Tom Berc Ngor and others Recap of Weir roles. A a my Fol Hor the More pm. The tangled Story of a. 14-year-old girl who tries to appear More mature by telling the boy of her dreams that her  actually her Lover. Gerard Depardieu and Katherine Heigl. A   my Oil 2 a now 13 Yean old Vada Anna. Chlumsky travels to its Angeles to find out about her mothers life before she died. Dan Aykroyd and Jamie Lee Curtis. A ,. A Hakata Dun 33 at the final in a it pg-13. Retired police u. Frank Drebin is drawn Back to in. Der cover duty when he stumbles into a terrorist plot Leslie Nielsen and Pri Iciola. Presley. Aaa a. Oil of atty around a Steven Seagal directs and stars As an alaskan Oil worker who is left to die in the Arctic wilderness after threatening logo Public Abi jut unsafe drilling practices. A. Ort co upon o Forout pm. Hanna Barbera sentry in the animated feature Market. Flu pg-13. A renegade dorm sets out to defy the rigid behaviour of its fellow students at a politically Correct University. Jeremy riven and David Spade a. ,. A a the Foll con Bill pm. A new Orleans Law student becomes  in a terrifying plot extend Trig to the highest Levels of government. Julia Rob erts and Denzel Washington. Philadelphia pm -13 turn Hanks Oscar winning performance As a lawyer who is fired when the firm finds out he has aids. Denzel Washington. A a. Reality bit pg-13. A film that purports to focus on the passage of generation hers from College to working world but Only exposes their superficiality. Iriona Ryder and Ethan Hawke. A a Suur act 2t Book in tha Holt pm. Whoops Goldberg stars in a tired retread of the old formula. A. Quot  Snow White and Tho Savon Dwarf g. The first feature length animated cartoon is re released. Mure than a half Century after it original in caught the worlds imagination. A . A Tomb Tono r. Overlong Western about the earps and the Clamp its and the gun Light at the . Corral. Some stirring Actium but mostly aggressively unbelievable Kutt rus Salt and Val Kilmer. Aaa White Fong 2i myth of Tho White wot pm. That half Wolf half dog super canine is Back with a new master Scott Bairstow in a ices than riveting stultifying by politic ally Correct adventure involving a starving american Indian tribe  compiled from Wiro Oporta. Star Ruli Fla by Chuck Vinch. A   a. A .a. A. A  a. Warner Bros. Brendan Fraser listens to Joe pc cps constitutional Points at Harvard University in the new movie with honors Chuck Vinch staff writer on movies with honors rated pg-13 a  must see  Worth your time a passable entertainment a coming soon to a video outlet near you and you can wait when we first meet the scruffy homeless Man who teaches a Harvard senior about compassion in this shaky pop psych study he is engrossed in. 19th-Century French novelist Emile Zola a classic germinal1 this tells you right away that the films lofty Agenda will be both admirably ambitious and annoyingly pretentious. The Harvard student Monty Kessler Brendan Fraser runs into the homeless Simon Wilder an abrasive Joe Pesci after dropping his thesis Down a grate leading to the basement boiler room of the Campus Library. Chasing after the paper Monty finds Simon feeding its pages into a fire to warm himself. Recognizing How precious the document is to Monty the derelict proposes a Deal hell Trade individual pages for Good deeds such As meals lodging blankets and the like. Monty Calls the cops anyway and has Simon arrested for trespassing. While that would be a credible Ruso Lution to such an episode it would Cut the films running time to 10 minutes. So Monty has a change of heart and pays Simon a Fine. He then puts the vagrant up in a defunct Van parked behind the group House he shares with comely Courtney Moira Kelly irreverent Campus do Everett Patrick Dempsey and uptight pre med student Jeff Josh Hamilton. Naturally Simon and Monty take a liking to each other. The Odd relationship deepens when they find that they share Simitar father son problems Monty still resents his parents divorce and his subsequent estrangement from his dad while Simon is guilt Ridden Over his decision to abandon his wife and baby boy 30 years  Content to Stop at making Simon a surrogate father writer William Mastrosimone pits him against Monty a Mentor a snooty political science professor named pit Kannan Gore Vidal of All people. This leads to one of the film s Best scenes in which Monty brings Simon to one of pit Kannan a lectures. But even Here Mastrosimone and director Alek Keshishian manage to undercut themselves. When the homeless Man and the prof Square off to argue constitutional Law Simon wins the Var bal joust and stalks out of the Hall. If the scene had ended there it would have been effective but no a the class of Callow College kids has to usher Simon out on a rousing wave of applause blew huh. To be fair Fraser and Kelly whose characters share an unrequited love that is suddenly requited when Simon arrives on the scene turn in nicely understated work. But they Are too often overshadowed by the prickly Pesci who is usually much More in tune with his roles than he is Here. The films underlying theme a that the homeless Are human beings not faceless zombies is Noble enough but the message is bloated with layers of Sappy and artificial social consciousness. Take the scene in which the four housemates gather around their new Friend to read passages from Walt Whitman s leaves of grass. Boy of boy As Simon likes to say. Then there a the problem of Simon himself a Well read fount of philosophical Wisdom on everything from car motors to love affairs. Not to sound too. Heartless but most of the folks in be seen parked on heating grates in the nation s capital Are barely coherent much less conversant in romantic poetry. A  a. A a this Story would have worked better As an episode of Beverly Hills 90210. Not Only would Brandon Walsh have retrieved his thesis intact he also would have found Simon a Good paying Job and reunited him with his family All in less than an hour. Stretched outto feature film length the Story is As Tough to sit through As one imagines a lecture by professor pit Kannan would be. Quot with honors gets two  12 sunday May 22, 1994