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Page 10 • DTH • Omnibus Thursday • February 25, 1993 Hey, let's make a formulaic, predictable, boring film The Temp Timothy Hutton, Lara Flynn Boyle, Faye Dunaway directed by Tom Holland Ram Triple 967-8284 zero blobs I don’t believe that 1 have seen a movie worse than The Temp. Let’s have a listen to what the “pitch" for this film must have sounded like. “Okay Lenny, whaddya got for me today?” “Ooh, Charlie, I got this great idea for a flick. At a glance: paranoia, deceit, murder, corporate ladder-climbing, cleavage and a psychotic college drop out.” “You got my ear, Lenny. Run with that.” “Okay, here’s how I see it—feel free to jump in or make changes. We got this guy, okay, we’ll call him Peter, he works for this big company. It doesn’t matter what the company does, but get this: the movie opens the day that Peter makes a pitch to the board to start makin’ cookies. OK? But he can’t get a straight answer, ’cause his company’s SSSSBgSS 7:30 * 9:45 nightly (PG) ( 2:30 • 4:45 Say Sun f 'Dct'maas. 7:00 *9:30 nightly < R) 2:00 * 4:30 Sat/Sun . * Aladdin ' 7:15 nightly < G > , 1:30 * 3:15 * 5:00 Sat/Sun . 'PLAYING WITH A Few Good Men L 9:15 nightly (R) Special Student/Youth Fares to EUROPE from New York on_SCHEDULEP Airlines DESTINATIONS 1/2 One-Way* Round Trip* LONDON 275 550 PARIS 288 562 FRANKFURT 300 600 ROME 325 650 MADRID 248 694 VIENNA 325 650 * plus applicable taxes FARES GOOD UNTIL JUNE 14,1993 Fares to Athens. Tel Aviv, Prague, Oslo, Helsinki, Moscow also available. Addition fares from RDU and Charlotte. Fly into 1 City and Home from Another—No Extra Charge. AGENTS for EURAIL, BRITRAIL and AMERICAN YOUTH HOSTELS For Reservations and Information Call: COLE TRAVEL and ST A with offices around the world Glen Lennox Shopping Center • Highway 54 East Chapel Hill, NC 682-9687 967-8888 movie MATT MORGAN just been bought out." “Kind of a ‘corporate chaos’ theme, huh, Lenny?” “Exactly. Except it doesn’tstop there. See, Peter was hoping that this new pitch would get him promoted to veep “You could have him angry ’cause he was promised a promotion before the buy-out, right?” “Sure, Charlie, that’s great. You re ally have a way with this. Anyway, Peter is already nervous ’cause he has to compete with this other dude for the job.” “Not enough, Lenny. Let’s give him a problem from his, uh, failed marriage. Yeah, he’s, uh, he’s paranoid!" “Charlie, you’re beautiful. So Peter’s upset, he’s nervous, he’s paranoid. He’s a man with a troubled past. I like it. Okay, so anyway, Peter has to do this report to his boss, see, outlining the cookie deal, right? Except his assistant is havin’ a baby, so Peter’s stuck. Well, next morning, Peter’s got this leggy, good-lookin’ temp in his office, and she’s cleaned the whole place up. She’s amazing. So Peter’s all impressed, not to Campy sci-fi flick funny enough to pay full price Matinee John Goodman directed by Joe Dante Willowdaile 477-4681 •••1/2 The Cuban missile crisis and I B’ science fiction movies are the subjects of Matinee, an enjoy able movie starring John Goodman. Goodman plays a low-budget, cheap thrills movie maker who comes to Key mention that he checks out the cleav age while she’s typin’ his report...” “1 don’t need another skin-flick, Lenny.” “Charlie, I’ll tell you what. No nu dity. None. We’ll just have ‘tease-shots’ is all, okay? Anyhow, Peter gets the report done, and better than the guy he’s up against. But no promotion. So he’s confidin’ in his temp, see, and she asks if there’s anything that she can do. He says, ‘Yeah, ice what’s-his-name for Friday.’ “He’s just kiddin’, ya know? But the next day, on the way to work, he finds this guy dead, on the side of the road. Real mysterious.” “So what about the temp?” “I’m gettin’ to that, Charlie. She applies for the dead dude’s job, and gets it! So now, she’s competin’ with Peter. Whoa. So she goes ballistic, climbin’ up the ladder, right ? Soon, the guys in New York are noticin’ her ... “ “Wait, Lenny. What guys in New York?” “You know, Charlie, the execs at the parent company. So they like her, and she’s gettin’ promoted left and right, and always the guy dies right before she gets promoted to fill the space. Looks pretty suspicious, right?” “So Peter is catchin’ on?” “Exactly, Charlie, but he can’t do nothin’ about it. Remember he’s GARY RpSENZWEIG West in 1961 to premier his latest piece of trash, MANT: half-man, half-ant. Much of the story, however, centers around a bunch of high school kids learning about fun, love and the Cold War.On the one hand we have two brothers Army brats who have been moving from town to town. The older brother is always trying to frighten the younger by doing things like taking him to horror movies. Then there is the popular girl from school who used to date a leather-jacket wearing, knife-carrying guy her mother probably warned her about. There is also a pre-hippie girl who is the only m I “DON’T Misslfr - PAT COLLINS. WWOR-TV Japp MICHAEL DOUGLAS A t Me Of IHa Reality. , M ‘ BLt! ■■— STARTS TOMORROW MOVIES paranoid, so nobody’s gonna believe him." “This is great...” “Right. So the temp her name is Chris, right, kind of a gender-bender thing, very hip these days—she comes on to Peter, but he rejects her. He keeps rejectin' her, ’cause he’s tryin’ to fix things with his wife, see? So Chris the temp goes nuts. She tries to frame Peter for selling secrets to the competition ...” “Who just happens to be Peter’s cut throat best friend!” “Yes! OK, so Peter goes and tells Chris off, and the office thinks that he’s crazy, ’cause they know that he’s all paranoid, right? But Chris knows that Peter’s figured it out, so she fixes the frame-up, and Peter gets the promotion over her.” “Then, to throw off suspicion, she cuts her own brake fluid hose or what ever when she and Peter are takin’ a business trip, so it looks like somebody’s tryin’ to kill both of ’em!" “There ya go. Then she tries to kill the boss, another dame, but Petet stops her. But the boss dies anyway, savin’ Peter. “But before she dies, she reveals the conclusive evidence that shows that Chris is a psycho, fatal-attraction, ca reer-woman type.” “So how does it end?” one who knows that putting your head between your legs when a nuclear bomb hits won’t do a thing —and she is quickly labeled a communist for such radical thoughts. Goodman’s character steals the show. He sees the big picture through science-fiction celluloid glasses and al ways thinks big. While on his way to Key West he sees a small statue of an alligator and starts planning his next film: “gator-woman?” “alliman?” Another interesting character is the theater owner who buys into the whole nuclear doomsday culture. He has a bomb shelter in the basement of the theater and walks around nervously lis tening to a radio to get the latest on the showdown in Cuba. The story picks up all of these char acters and carries them through a story that interconnects them at times and “Who cares how it ends? Isn’t that a great story?! All right, all right, 1 know: Peter gets the boss’s old job, and he fires Chris. Who cares? The writers’ll think of somethin’.” “Oh, Lenny, that’s great stuff. Kind of a Fatal Attraction meets The Hand That Rocks the Cradle in the office.” “Sure, Charlie, you know that dames that try to climb the corporate ladder lose it. I mean, not all of ’em lose it, I guess.” “The boss is a broad, right?” “Yeah, she inherited it, or somethin’. Of course, to accent Chris’s good looks and hot legs, we’ll have an ugly lady exec too, but she doesn’t make it. Then there’s Peter’s wife ...” “Yeah, what about her?” “Well, she’ll be the weepy-eyed sepa rated wife, who thinks Peter’s screwin’ his temp while he’s tryin’ to get back with her. She really wants Peter to come back, but she puts him in line whenever he ‘threatens’ her.” “Boy, Lenny, with all these dames in the flick, it sure is easy to write. I just hope we don’t offend anybody.” “What are you, crazy? You know that the men choose the movie on the weekend, since they’re payin’ and all. Besides, who cares if we offend the babes? We’ll be rollin’ in the dough, and they’ll never know who we are anyhow.” lets them go on independently at oth ers. It never ventures too far from the central plot, however. Matinee makes you forget who, when and where you are, and then returns you to reality at the end with a satisfied feeling of five dollars well spent. Rgwes Indicate total gran 1. Groundhog Day $26.5 million, 2 weeks 2. Homeward Bound $16.4 million, 3 weeks 3. Sommersby $27.8 million, 3 weeks 4. The Crying Game $21.5 million, 13 weeks 5. Aladdin $179.3 (nillion, 15 weeks 6. Army of Darkness $4.4 million, 1 week 7. Loaded Weapon 1 $21.3 million, 3 weeks 8. Scent of a Woman $41.7 million, 9 weeks 9. Untamed Heart $7.6 million, 2 weeks 10. A Few Good Men $126.9 million, 11 weeks Sommersby 7 7:15. 9:30(2:15,4:30) THE CRYING GAME
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