14DTHHoliday Gift GuideWednesday, December 12, 1990
Clarence '.for Christinas: It's a wonderful film
From Associated Press reports
NEW YORK Back in 1946, di
rector Frank Capra came up with "It's a
Wonderful Life," a wonderful film
starring Jimmy Stewart.
It has become a Christmas favorite
on television, at least the uncolorized
version.
Now comes "Clarence," a gentle, at
times slyly funny, computer-age varia
tion of "Life" that cable television's
The Family Channel is showing tonight
and again Friday and Sunday.
It stars Robert Carradine as Clarence
Oddbody, the gentle angel who in
Capra' s film descended to earth to gently
persuade the decent, despairing George
Bailey that his life was not as worthless
as he thought.
There are a few changes in the new
film, of course. In Capra's movie,
Clarence, played by Henry Travers, was
a genial old duffer who landed in a
smalltown.
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Carradine's Clarence, who has got
ten much younger in heaven since his
fine work 44 years earlier, lands in a
busy, noisy big city. He'd prefer to stay
where he is, working on clocks.
He has agreed to go only because (a)
a fellow angel's family is in trouble, (b)
the angel 's widow may commit suicide,
and (c) there's a shortage of guardian
angels, what with the world in the shape
it is.
The fellow angel (Richard
Fitzpatrick) was a computer whiz who
died suddenly before he could perfect
"Dexter," a revolutionary voice-activated
computer cartoon toy for kids.
Unlike other kid's computer games,
which have considerable violence and
all sorts of warlike trolls stomping on
each other, his would have emphasized
kindness, decency and even education.
Now, his widow, Rachel, played by
Kate Trotter, must keep their struggling
company going, perfect her late
husband's invention, and fend off an
evil mogul (Louis Del Grande) with a
soul of garlic. He wants to buy their firm
and use its technology to create even
more violent computer games for kids.
At the same time, she must care for
their two kids, Brent (Nicolas Van
Burek), a sullen teenage computer ace,
and Casey (Jamie Rainey), a sweet but
very sharp little girl.
Clarence bumbles his way into their
lives after he lands on earth and is
immediately accosted by a panhandler
shaking a tin cup at him. He takes a coin
from the cup, telling the startled beggar,
"Thank you."
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