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Section 5 Chicago Tribune, Tuesday, November 8, 1983 Let ROH'S CATERING Prepare Your Thanksgiving Turkey Dinner iir-i'i Testament' toils away with burden of doom Whole baked 14 lb. TURKEY with stuffing, sweet potatoes, peas, carrots, cranberry sauce, gravy, rolls and butter, Fresh Baked APPLE PUMPKIN Pie nor narenn nine lav I Hftliuoru TtT'1 Dinner Delivered Hot and Ready to Serve 15 People. "Testament" Tribune mini-review: Unremitting pathos Directed by Lynne Uttnwi; screenplay by John Secret Young based on a story by Carol Amen; photographed by Steve Poster; produced by Jonathan Bernstein and Lynne Littman; a Paramount releaeo at the Bwgraph Theater, 2433 N. Lincoln Ave. Rated PG.

THE CAST Carol Wetherly Jane Alexander Tom Wetherly William Oevane Bred Ross Harrie Mary Liz Roxana Zel Scottie Lukas Haaa Home Philip Anglim Henry Abhart Leon Mother with baby Rebecca De Mornay CHRISTMAS HOLIDAY SPECIAL BUFFET READY BEEF AMD CHICKEN $2.35 per person Potato salad, cole slaw, and macaroni salad, kaiser rolls, pickles, peppers, olives, plastic plates, plastic forks, knives, and paper napkins. minimum 30 persons plus tax and delivery iai83to nm UANY INTERNATIONAL ENTREES I PARTY TRAYS AVAILABLE CALL FOR YOUR HOLIDAY 9005 W. CERMAK NORTH RIVERSIDE By Gene Siskel Movie critic it wrong to expect a laugh, even a bitter one, in a movie about the end of the world? I don't think so, and a laugh certainly would help the affecting but overwrought "Testament," a melodrama about a Northern California town trying to cope with a nuclear war that has isolated it from the rest of the world. "Testament" is so unremitting in its cloud of doom that this viewer couldn't help but begin to resent the movie after a while. One by one, adults and children die from radiation; we see the body bags.

Looting begins. And the town is running out of gasoline, right? Okay, but why does the gas station owner have to have a brain-damaged child, as well an an empty pump. One catastrophe to a location would be enough. Some movies are tear-jerkers. There were times during "Testament" when I thought the writer and director were going after my tear ducts with pliers.

And yet and this is a big "and yet" "Testament" does manage to convey in its surprisingly quiet and non-theatrical way the very point that its creators surely wanted to make: that human stupidity can destroy the world, but it cannot erase human dignity. Jane Alexander stars as the mother of three children who could live next door to the children in difference, though. The bomb does end it all, and "Testament" makes that point too. The rest of the script of "Testament" operates at two speeds: a ponderous waiting for everyone to draw their last breath and an even more ponderous display of nobility. The townspeople of Hamefin, apparently oblivious to the scope of the nuclear disaster, go ahead with their local grammar school's production of "The Pied Piper of Hamelin," culminating with a speech in which the parents of the town are told that the children will return only when the adults truly deserve them.

What a coincidence, huh? "Testament" is too good in its best moments to need a scene like that. A little more chaos and a little less irony would serve this film well. One can't fault the performances. Jane Alexander is one of the most instantly pure souls ever to appear on screen. She could play a saint without worrying about getting into the part.

The casting of Devane is a little too warm and snuggly, though. His presence not his performance-marks the film as a TV-sized project. Maybe that's the real nature of my complaint against "Testament." If this were on TV, it would be one of the best TV movies ever made. On the big screen, however, we expect a wider emotional range, and "Testament" doesn't have it. rLUNCH EXPERIENCE "E.T." Nice suburban kids.

And Alexander plays a nice housewife, left alone to care for the children when her husband I William Devane takes off on a business trip to San Francisco. HE PICKS THE wrong day to leave. There is a flash in the sky and an emergency announcement from Washington D.C. And then the TV goes dead. What now? The rest of the movie is dedicated to showing "What now?" The townspeople meet in the church.

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