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The Red and Black / Finals • Monday,
1990 • 17
■ MOVIE REVIEWS
Hit the movies this holiday
By NOEL MURRAY
Entertainment Writer
After the junk-culture box office
orgy of the summer and the hold
over limbo of the early fall comes
the prestige and the pop of the
Christmas cinema season.
The season officially began with
Thanksgiving, and the release of
potential blockbusters like “The
Rescuers Down Under,” ‘Three
Men and a Little Lady,” “Rocky V”
and “Home Alone.” Thanksgiving
and the weeks immediately af
terward are when the poppier
movies hit the screen, the better to
rack up the receipts.
On towards Christmas, though,
is when the potential Oscar win
ners go on display. This year’s field
looks fairly promising.
Penny Marshall (“Big”) is being
pegged early to be the first female
ever nominated for an Academy
Award with her “Awakenings.”
“Awakenings” stars Robin Wil
liams as a doctor whose patient,
Robert DeNiro, comes out of a
coma after 30 years and heads out
to experience the world. It’s the
kind of “ain’t life grand” movie that
the Academy likes and that makes
everyone feel good for the holidays.
On the harder side is Francis
Ford Coppola’s “The Godfather
III,” written as usual by Mario
Puzo. There’s a lot of anticipation
for the third installment in the
Corleone saga, but frankly, the tra
iler looks stilted. Mob movies may
be passe after Scorsese’s “Good-
fellas”
That's excluding “Miller’s
Crossing,” of course, the best movie
(hands-down) of 1990 that hope
fully is still showing in a theatre in
your hometown since it sure as hell
ain’t playing here. This gangster
film homage by the perfect Coen
brothers is a classic from the word
go.
Back to the official Christmas
releases, “Bonfire of the Vanities"
is stirring up a great deal of contro-
Bonfire of the Vanities: Tom Hanks, Bruce Willis star.
versy. Some say the casting choices
of Tom Hanks and Bruce Willis in
the lead roles of this adaptation of
the Tom Wolfe novel rank up there
with the Michael Keaton-
“Batman” fiasco. Plus, Spike Lee
said he’s seen the script and it
tones down the novel’s racial ten
sions to nothingness. This Brian
DePalma project could be a di
saster.
Speaking of “Batman,” that
film's director Tim Burton has cre
ated another unsettling fantasy-
land with “Edward Scissorhands.”
Johnny Depp and real-life fiance
Winona Ryder (sigh) star in this
love story about romance with cut
lery. Looks beguiling.
Finally, in the unsettling cat
egory also is “Misery,” an adapta
tion of a creepy Stephen King novel
by Rob Reiner, the director with
the flawless track record (This is
Spinal Tap,The Princess Bride,”
“Stand By Me,” etc.). James Caan
stars as a romance novelist held
prisoner by one of his fans. Ad
vance word is good.
There ’tis. An incomplete menu,
as it were, of the holiday choices.
Sample at your descretion. Joyeux
me.
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