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Good acting saves plot
in The Devil’s Own’
Harrison Ford befriends Brad Pitt in new thriller
I By Ann Stack
Film Critic
A movie starring Brad Pitt and Harrison
Ford is kind of like pizza — even a really bad
one is still pretty good.
Luckily, “The Devil’s Own” is not a bad
movie.
Ford stars as New York police officer Tom
O’Meara, and Pitt is Frankie McGuire, (a.k.a.
Rory Delaney) an Irish Republican Army gun
| runner.
I I Ford plays the good Irish-Catholic cop, the
one who’s only fired a gun four times in his 23
years on the force. He thinks he’s doing a friend
a favor, sponsoring a young Irish immigrant
escaping the perils of his homeland. What
O’Meara doesn’t realize is that his houseguest
is actually a part of the terrorism that makes
his homeland so perilous.
Surrounded by women—his wife and three
daughters—O’ Meara and Rory develop some
what of a father-son relationship.
“It’s nice to have someone around who pees
standing up,” he tells Rory. Frankie/Rory lacked
a father-figure in his life, after witnessing his
father’s murder—for being reported as an IRA
sympathizer—at age 8, and he is equally happy
to be a part of the family.
Seeing his fisherman father gunned down
at the family dinner table prompts Rory’s deci
sion to take up a career in terrorism, and after
murdering several members of the British Army
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Funniness is not fabrication
in Carrey’s latest, “Liar Liar’
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By Gerry Beltz
Film Critic
Even if you don’t like Jim Carrey movies,
you can’t help but crack a anile or two during
“Liar Liar.”
Granted, he does the face-contortion bit a
little too often for a little loo long and the basic
premise of the film is carried a tad over the
limit, but Carrey makes it all bearable.
After the lackluster response to his stab at
dark comedy in “The Cable Guy,” Carrey once
again teamed up with “Ace Ventura” director
Tom Shadyac to do “Liar Liar.”
Fletcher Reede (Carrey) is a lawyer with no
conscience whatsoever who — whether in or
out of the courtroom — can fling out lie after
lie slicker than snake snot.
Unfortunately, his gift for falsehoods in
cludes lying to his son, Max (Justin Cooper).
And his ex-wife, Audrey (Mama Tierney, TV’s
“NewsRadio”), is considering moving both of
them to Boston with her squeaky-clean boy
friend, Jerry (Cary Elwes).
And, to win his latest case — and a subse
quent law firm partnership — Fletcher will
need every fie, revision and distortion of the
truth he can find.
But when Fletcher’s ability to lie is magi
cally stripped away by a birthday wish from
Film: “Liar Liar”
Stars: Jim Carrey, Maura Tierney, Jennifer
Tilly
Director: Tom Shadyac
Rating: PG-13 (language, mature humor)
Grade: B
Five Words: One-gagmovie is still amusing
Max, his life begins to crumble around him.
To say the least, this doesn’t help him in
his quest to win the case of gold digging, un
faithful wife Samantha Cole (Jennifer Tilly).
This isn’t just “truth-in-responsc” things
either; he is compelled to tell the truth and speak
his mind, and this leads to the subsequent hi
larity that one might expect.
Sadly, the supporting cast of “Liar Liar”
really doesn’t have much to do but keep the
plot of the movie going.
The laughs keep coming, but it’s almost al
ways for die same joke. Still, the antics of
Carrey and the overall premise of the moyie
keep it fresh. >
One note: Don’t leave when the movie is -
over because the outtakes at the end of the film
are almost as funny as the film itself.
The truth and the whole truth? Go see “Liar
Liar,” it’s worth the price of admission.
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Grade: A
Pavement is one of those rare bands that
have nearly created a genre unto themselves
Mid subsequently spawned a slew of pretend
ers totheir crown.
V But given the short length of Pavement’s
career up tliitil now, they could be classified
as the rarest of such bands. Their influence
can be seen and heard in nearly every guitar
band that has sprung up in the last few years,
but not one of those bands has come close to
the original.
In the eight years since their first re
corded work (the self-produced “Slay
TYacks” EP) and the five years since their
first full-length album (1992’s landmark
“Slanted and Enchanted”), Pavement has
expanded its creative reach by thrusting its
lo-fidelity attack at nearly every form of pop
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