On Screen
WEEDS (Academy): See story (Rl6). THE BIG EASY (Stagedoor, Sumner): Offbeat entertainment that combines police drama and a love story. Plenty of background colour is added by the New Orleans setting and mood. Stars Dennis Quaid (GA). A MONTH IN THE COUNTRY (Westend): See story (GA).
THE MILAGRO BEANFIELD WAR (Savoy 1): See story (GA). BEETLEJUICE (Regent 2): Michael Keaton plays the lecherous demon who is called upon as a “bioexorcist” to help rid a house of living people so that the ghosts may stay there in peace (GY). IRONWEED (Midcity): See story (GA).
CHERRY 2000 (Metro): Melanie Griffiths plays a spunky tracker sent into the American wastelands in the not-too-distant future to retrieve a model of a life-like sexual robot. Plenty of action in the best flgrade movie of the year (GY). LITTLE NIKITA (Regent 1): See story (GA). NICO (Avon): See story
(RPI6). CROCODILE DUNDEE II (Savoy 2): Paul Hogan returns for more adventures of the archetypal Australian hero, Mick “Crocodile” Dundee, set in New York and the Australian outback (GY). THREE MEN AND A BABY (Pantages, Hornby): Tom Selleck, Steve Guttenberg and
Ted Danson play three not-so-gay bachelors who find a baby on their doorstep. Predictable, cute, but very popular (GA). SHORT CIRCUIT 2 (Hollywood, Sumner): Johnny Five, that cute robot which became a surprise hit two years ago, returns for adventures in the big city (GY).
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