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rfpcsrrirrsjn kowrCTTTr" 19 Friday November 4 1983 The Right Film Lacks Realism rfTt'aL'' Ah' XTT IT I MOMEl ttW XlsUlUM GaM hi IWH 145 leecMftfy RICHARD GERE '0 40 BREATHL FSS By Janet Maslin New York Times nimi DEATH STALKEI 7 25 10 30 4 4 VERSION of the Horatio Alger story doesn't necessarily Involve hard work It may center on sheer ambition which is shown to lead inexorably even automatically to glory The latest example of this is "All the Right a mb "Another comedy triumph for Richard Pryor and one of those (Highest Rating) rar flm that octuolly mokes you laugh our loud sometimes -Roger Ebert uncontrollably -Gene Siskel Chicago Sun Times Chrcago Tnb(jne Movie Review well-made but sugar-coated working-class fable about a football star It concerns a nice boy who wants to "be the athletic career that he hopes will bring him a college scholarship and the Pennsylvania steel- mill town from which he's determined to escape The bluer the collar of such a young man the more miraculous the pay off he will eventually receive or at least that's the current Hollywood logic "All The Right is about Stef Djordjevlc (Tom Cruise) a clean-cut young hero in a bleak little town father and brother already work in the local steel mill American Pipe and Steel from which the town Ampipe takes its name Ampipe is so dismal that when a friend of is forced to marry his cheerleader girlfriend the newlyweds go to Pittsburgh for their honeymoon nothing to do in Ampipe but -I I f- 4 4 Mf hit ELEGATJt" -Vincent Canby New York Tries OF THE CnAfiCIST of the -Andrew Sams Vtege Voce (i maxm im rM-l IAI IVII UlMbUUbHL ULUUI1 1 -Stanley Kauffmam The New Repubfc "A STYLISH AflD BAWDY MYSTERY AS0UT SEXMAKfJERS AFeD -Bruce Wiamson Playboy drink weld and root for the local football team Stef dreams of becoming an engineer end he has a sweetheart named Lisa (Lea Thompson) who wants to be a musician As DIRECTED BY Michael Chapman the superb cinematographer whose credits Include "Raging and "Taxi Driver" "All the Right Moves" is by no means a bad film or a disingenuous one Its sense of place Is distinct its acting convincing and its sentiments feel sincere But for all its air of realism and grit the film has a fairytale quality also full of racial and sexual stereotypes from the black football players who are better dancers than their white teammates to the wife whose woman-to-woman chat with Lisa is rich with feminine intuition Tom Cruise who starred in Business" makes Stef honest and believable though in hotter-tempered scenes Cruise seems overly mild As the coach who becomes Stefs antagonist and who has his own ambitions of bidding Ampipe adieu Craig Nelson is a daunting and effectively mysterious figure here ALL THE BIGHT MOVES From 20th Century-Fox Producer Du'scn Drecor chao! Chapman Jan DeBont Screenplay Michael Kane Editor David Garfield Music David Campbell Cast Tom cruise Craig Nelson Lea Thompson Charles Ciotfl Gary Graham Christopher Penn Paul Carafotes (R) Sacramento Inn Sunriae Clnedome Stata Skyviaw Driva-ln keep your eyes off her the best acting seen in ages Skala too is magnetic in a smaller role as is Devane and the rest of this evenly talented cast: Roxana Zai Ross Harris and Lukas Haas as the Wetherly children Philip Anglim (of Elephant as a priest veterans Leon Ames and Lurene Tuttle as the stalwart Abharts and Mako and Gerry Murillo as a gas station owner and his son The superb direction is by Lynne Littman an Academy Award winner for her documentary about a Los Angeles area community of elderly citizens living in the oceanside town of Venice Our Carol short story Last came to her in a vision she said It was first published in San St Anthony Messenger later in Ms magazine Novelist John Sacret Young wrote the screenplay For all of the restraint of the cast and crew packs the biggest wallop of any movie seen in a long time TESTAMENT Distributed by Paramount Pictures Producer-Jonathan Bernstein and Lynne Littman Director Littman Screenplay John Sacret Young from a story by Carol Amen Music James Horner Photography Steven Poster Editor Suzanne Pettit Production design David Nichols Cast Jane Alexander William Devane Ross Harris Roxana Zal Lukas Haas Philip Anglim Lilia Skala Leon Ames Lurene Tuttle Rebecca De Mornay Kevin Costner Mako Gerry Murillo Mico Olmos (PG) Tower i 7s Testament Continued From Page FI basis for the movie when director Lynne Littman railed and asked if she could work for union scale 14 2 i i 4 I 4 Rio a fh by PETER GREENAWAY COLUMBIA PC JURE Presents on NDCjO ftoduc ion RCHARD PRYOR HERE AND NOW Pioduced by BOB PARKINSON and ANDY FRIENDLY Executive Producer JIM BROWN Written and Directed by RICHARD PRYOR MTMCTf 4C6 A mi MI HUM VAROL WETHERLY is the mother of three children living in fictional Hamelin about 100 miles from San Francisco Her husband (William Devane) is on a business trip in the Golden Gate city when the bomb hits While Carol and her neighbors count the missing and fight the depression and radiation poisoning that sets in it is the elementary school principal (Lilia Skala) who pulls things together must keep she implores the people of Hamelin It is the way Alexander keeps backing up from this situation understating a role needing no aggressiveness that makes her performance so powerful As she keeps her children together despite signs of fatal illness everywhere as she focuses her mind on survival while all around there is only hoplessness she creates a monument of courage and strength Because of her tremendous restraint and her marvelous ability to get under the skm of her character you mm mi mm ntoln 4 Theatres 391 5500 3 CINEMAS 925 U449 SCINEMAS 726 1200 Co-Hit loth Drive-Ins "SFRIHG 11EAK" OPEN 6:39 yTOWER THEATRtfsSxty 4 fp 'iee mmimsf -mk? 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