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Thursday December 6, 1990
Grange, but true: twisted twins
The Krays
Gary Kemp, Martin Kemp, Billie Whitelaw
and Kate Hardie
directed by Peter Medak
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when they take to heart their mother
Violet's (Billie Whitelaw) admoni
tions: stick together forever, tight hard
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will loom on the horizon.
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other hand, is out of his gourd. Com
pletely. Off-the-edge schizophrenic,
and far more scary than his sibling.
The roles of the Kray twins call for
actors who can credibly portray
brothers who have shared their entire
lives together; who better than two
real-life twins, good actors in their
own right?
There's nothing too spectacular
about The Krays; no images that will
linger forever, no cosmic revelations.
But the depth of emotion between
the members of the Kray family con
trasts interestingly with the matter-of-fact
malice displayed by the Kray
brothers. That emotional depth and
the real-life aspects of this docudrama
are the only things that set The Krays
apart from the rest of the gangster
pack.
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J J turtles, flying reindeer and
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quality is overlooked to gain ratings
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us animation has more aesthetic merit
than just bulging eyes and plummet
ing refrigerators.
For example, The Cow, a Greek film
done entirely in charcoal drawings, is
a tender story about a boy who grows
up with a cow that sacrifices every
thing for the boy's family. Not the
stuff one might find on Saturday
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and detailed pictures keep the whole
audience, including many children,
enthralled.
However, Toumee is not entirely
without fun. Bill Plympton lends his
Plymptoons to the movie for some of
the biggest laughs of the production.
If you haven't seen Plympton's quick,
silly shorts on MTV, it may be worth
going just to see his work. Pieces such
as The Mob, The Early Years and
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have everyone laughing out loud.
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Short, expressionless figures interact
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The stop-motion shorts include a
Canadian film that depicts a dance of
cockroach characters and a turn aoout
a man made entirely of wire. In an
other metaphor, the wire man disaDies
his loved ones while trying to keep
other things away trom them.
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