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“Sommersby”
“Sommersby” (Edgewood 3, Lin
coln) is a great love story that refuses
to succumb to the obvious Hollywood
cliches. Itquestionsconventional ideas
about love, marriage and identity.
“Sommersby” is a remake of the
French classic “The Return of Martin
Guerre.” The original is based on
factual events in 16th-century France,
but screenwriter Nicholas Meyer
(“Star Trek VI”) Americanized and
updated it.
Often times this doesn’t work, but
“Sommersby” is a glowing excep
tion. Directed by Jon Amiel, it is a
wonderful tale.
The acting is exceptional also. Jodie
Foster is remarkable. There are mo
ments when just the look in her eyes
is enough to make you catch your
breath. And Richard Gere is perfect.
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Kiefer Sutherland and Nancy Travis obsess together in “The Vanishing."
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Fine, “Loaded Weapon 1” (East
Park 3, Plaza 4) is admittedly short on
plot, character development, and all
that other complicated stuff that wins
Oscars for movies.
It wasn’t made for that. What it
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Homecoming
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University Program Council
Due Monday, February 15, 1993
Interviews: Week of Feb. 22
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Problems afflict remake
"The Vanishing"
Not very often do directors re
make their own films.
Roger Vadim (“And God Cre
ated Woman”) did and was terribly
unsuccessful.
There must be a reason for this
reluctance. The reason probably is
that their remakes often suck.
At least “The Vanishing”
(Edgcwood 3, Plaza 4) sucks.
“The Vanishing” is the Ameri
can feature-film debut of Dutch
director George Sluizcr. It is also a
remake of his 1988 film,
“Spoorloos.”
He should have left wcl I enough
alone.
There are so jnany problems
with this movie it’s hard to get a
handle on it.
Kiefer Sutherland is Jeff
t-iarriman, a young copy wmer wun
a bright future and a beautiful girl
friend named Diane (Sandra Bul
lock).
Everything is going swimmingly
for him until she is abducted from
a convenience store*while they’re
on vacation at Mount St. Helen’s.
Jeff spends the next three years
searching for her, making no
progress and seemingly abandon
ing his own life in the process.
But he does meet Rita (Nancy
Travis), a waitress with a heart of
gold who tries to help him forget
Diane.
Tough job. At least it should
have been for the movie to work.
Somehow though, while Jeff is
completely obsessed with Diane’s
disappearance, he manages to fall
in love with Rita.
Sorry, folks, it doesn’t work.
Their relationship makes it hard
to care about his obsession with
Diane’s disappearance. The obscs
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their relationship. See the prob
lem?
Then there’s a problem with the
bad guy, Barney (Jeff Bridges).
The audience knows he’s a loon
from the moment he appears on
screen. His voice is loony. His ac
tions are loony. His dialogue is
loony.
As is almost all the dialogue.
The script suffers from the same
sagging that plagued screenwriter
Todd Graff’s last film, “Used
People.” He just can’t make the
story work: too many loopholes
and too much implausibility.
And in this case, too little like
the original and too much Ameri
can “suspense”: the never-dcad
baddie, the over-the-top violence
and the too-pal happy ending.
It sucks.
I hope “The Vanishing” will
take a cue from its title and disap
pcar‘ — Anne Steyer
was made for was laughs, and laughs
it has in abundance.
Emilio Estevez joins his brother
Charlie Sheen (“Hot Shots”) in the
ranks of big-screen hijinx as Jack
Colt, cut from the same cloth as Mel
Gibson’s “Lethal Weapon” on-the
edge character Martin Riggs.
His straight-laced partner (again
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a rich plantation owner, drinker, gam
bler and wife beater, who comes home
after the Civil War.
After six years, he looks and acts a
little different. But who wouldn’t af
ter spending time in a Yankee prison?
His wife Laurel (Foster) and his
son Robert (Brett Kelley) have tried
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But they reluctantly welcome Jack
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Away goes the beard, the drink and
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Homer by the fire, promises to sell
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Did time in prison change him, or
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These questions come to the fore
front when Jack has to stand trial in
Nashville, Tenn. He’s accused of a
murder committed before his return
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The ending is too good to give
away, but every moment is worth
watching—even the anticipated ones.
— Anne Steyer
Loaded Weapon 1’ fires off round of hdarity
a la the “Lethal Weapon” flicks) is
Wes Lugcr (Samuel L. Jackson).
They arc on the trail of the evil
General Mortars (William Shalncr)
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(Tim Curry).
In the course of their chase the
sight gags and one-liners arc almost
non-stop — and there’s close to a
dozen hilarious cameos (including
Whoopi Goldberg, Bruce Willis, and
Charlie Sheen).
Check it out. You might even have
to go a second time to catch all the
subtle sight gags at the scene of the
crime.
— Gerry Beltz
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