The Charlotte Observer from Charlotte, North Carolina • 34

I 4C THE CHARLOTTE OBSERVER Friday January 20 1984 'Testament' at Park Terrace The citizens of fairy-tale Ham A Jo Ann Rhetts A REVIEW LA 1111111111111111111CUP THU COUPON 1 I se hush dok I i FISH FRIES Two tender fish fillets II Captanou ss: FOR A 50 and 2 southern natural cut french fries 1 rn tyl II ONLY puppies a great little seafood place Mu ewe fob1 1984 No good NO atet ewe Igeetal et decedM Cana I on tttak 11 dDp ta 1 :11 I 61 48 Owietie Atoms I Gas tonia II inotaboes- IIIIIMil CL IP MIS COup0t4 MEH EIMI 11111111 3 Di 4 FISH FRIES Two tender fish fillets I FOR 6 I natural cut french fries I and 2 southern style hush I 1 ONLY 4150 puppies II aist sipm Feb 151984 Captain D's I Noe good wole ow admit II gleam' i 01 CMCOUng 32 a treat Male seafood place I 0 At al Otoriotto woo 1 Gestono 11410-11ii OLP THIS COtIPON IIINEIMMINIO FISH FRIES Two tender fish fillets II natural cut french fries I I FOR 6 A 50 and 2 southern style hush I ONLY Vie puppies I ies 1 otsv gum Feb 151984 II No 9dot any osw ipscal Captain D's I drumchadott swoo I Gast a great little waked plate so 0 0 0 11111111Kmak millill1 CUP THIS COUPON 11111111111111EE0 FISH FRIES Two fender fish fillets I FOR 6A southern style hush 0 natural cut french Ines 111 and 2 so I ONLY 4150 puppies I I Ottel turn Feb 15 19g Captain D's I I 00x-0 Ai a Oersottt Nome: Gastemo a great lank Nalld Place I 1111109toll IMMO CUP THIS COUPON EnonEENEEM 4 16-144 i) if' 141 iprk 114--oke 41N i r70 ar -A Jane Alexander comforts her son in "Testament" Use these coupons one at a time or all at once Either way you'll get tour delicious meals 00 00 $600 coupons one at a time or all at once you'll get four delicious meals for only $600 ent grows in family bunches With backing from public television's American Playhouse series she made this movie for a piddling (in Hollywood terms) $750000 one who believes In justifiable nuclear war should watch and listen to Alexander explaining lovemaking to her 15-year-old daughter (Roxana Zal of television's "Something About who won't live long enough to go to bed with a man Zal Haas and Ross Harris as the third Wetherly child Ulla Skala Rebecca De Mornay and Philip Anglim (Broadway's "Elephant are all effective in small roles Kevin Costner the actor who played Alex in the flashback scene scissored from "The Big Chill" plays De Mornay's husband grieving for his dead baby girl Littman has won four Emmy Awards and the 1977 Academy Award for Best Documentary Short (for "Number Our Days" a study of a Venice Calif community of elderly Jews) She is married to Taylor Hackford director of "An Officer and a Gentleman" which may or may not prove tal V40 COMRE ING ENTERTAINMENT It make you gel good RfliramistaiabRffi movi ii 1 IF YOU'RE GOING "Testament" is playing at Park Terrace at 1:15 daily and 945 pm Wednesday Tickets are $3 (general admission) and $225 (ages 14 and under 65 and over) Subscription tickets are still available at S20 for the 13-film Park Terrace independent and foreign film serlos PARENTS' GUIDE: "Testament" is rated PG for profanity implicit sexual activity and most importantly for its extremely adult treatment of devastating subject matter about erican at 1KroU 'EIA'SNITEK MAGAZINE making tMill "SILKWOOD is powerful The performances are riveting Streep Russell and Cher are all excellent" Rex Reed SYADICATED COLUMNIST "SILKWOOD is a real terrific movie" Roger Ebert AT THE MOMS OLIVIA NEWTON-JOHN JOHN TRAVOLIA lin fretted about rats overrunning their village and never noticed the Pied Piper making off with their children That we fretting about the Russians and stockpiling nuclear weapons could easily make the same tragic irreversible error is the sobering point of "Testament" "Testament" teeters on the edge of being a beautifully crafted therefore effective exercise in morbidity After all many of us have imagined the horrible aftermath of nuclear warfare since our parents stocked civil defense shelters in the '50s (And the suspicion always lingers that the people who really need to see this kind of movie the people planning our national defense strategies don't Why frighten the rest of us into pulling the covers over our heads?) That "Testament" doesn't wallow in cheap sentimentality or grisly detail is a testament to the talents of first-time feature film director Lynne Littman her superb cast and screenwriter John Young Not for "Testament" the horrifying special effects of television's recent "The Day After" "Testament" and this is a movie for which the utmost parental discretion is advised deals with the infinitely more horrifying lingering deaths of a small-town family after nuclear bombs have been exploded on both coasts Based on Carol Amen's short story "The Last Testament" the movie is set in Hamlin Calif The opening scenes are cluttered with the sort of daily detail we can take for granted until our comfortable lives are disrupted Homemaker Carol Wetherly (Jane Alexander) fixes breakfast changes the sheets collects the laundry and hustles her children out the door to school The biggest concern of her husband Tom (William De Vane) on his way to work in San Francisco is his 18- minute personal best in that day's early-morning bicycle ride An ordinary family an ordinary life until 4-year-old Scottie's (newcomer Lukas Haas) "Sesame Street" vanishes from the television screen Suddenly there's no electricity no noisy television no Daddy no San Francisco nothing east of Keokuk Iowa The child next door appears and asks if he can stay until his parents come home They never do of course but the boy is absorbed into Carol's family until in her words "he just curled into a ball and died" Blame for the bombs Is never assigned Ham-radio operator Henry Abhart (Leon Ames) Hamlin's only link with the outside world receives conflicting reports on who started what This though is precisely the movie's point: So many nations now have the capability to destroy the world that we have become our own worst enemy Alexander is being mentioned as a possible Oscar nominee for her heroic performance one that's no less passionate for its absence of hysteria Living an unspeakable nightmare from which there's no waking she suggests a resilient admirable core of humanity Any 401' 5i i ed 100 ao Ilk 1 14 tit ic 2046" a (01 "SILKWOOD is so darn good! Oscar nominations for everybody!" Siegel GOOD MORVLVG AMERICA "Riveting and gutsyStreep is superb" Carroll NEW YORK DAILY NEWS "One of the best movies I've seen in a long time Cher is great" Salamon ITALL "One of the best films of this or any year" Michael BIOU'en BOSTON GLOBE "SILICWOOD stands neck and neck with TERMS OF ENDEARMENTas one of the best films of the year" Baltake PHIL4DELPHL4 DAILY NM tn1111610 (1E13 FE1A" TENTIEIH CENTufiv i01 tr 11Pq-Z-4 CHECK oar mCINEZ111 INDIVIDUAL tffilla UMW MALL THEATRE ADS IlliatAL at SHARON mimil DAILY FOR 568-0408 SHOW TIMES MEM PARK t5T5HWY 5 Leonard Ma 'tin ENTERTAAMENT TONIGHT 3 GOLDEN GLOBE NOMINATIONS BEST ACTOR BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR BEST ORIGINAL SCORE "Meryl Streep is remarkable!" "SILKWOOD is amazing" Aotit sAmD V41 tAtak 4b1 '''N4'10 SILKWOOD b- 1 A -4 'AP 1)1141 -41fr ABC Motion Pictures Presents A MIKE NICHOLS FILM MEMISTREEP KURT RUSSELL CHER SILK WOOD Music By GEORGES DELERUE Written By NORA EPHRON ALICE ARLEN Executive Producers BUZZ HIRSCH and LARRY CANO Produced By MIKE NICHOLS and MICHAEL HAUSMAN Directed By MIKE NICHOLS 4 sikki He was Tony Montana The world will remember him by another nameSCARFACE AL PACINO SCARFACE ILIGENERAL CINEMA SOUTHPAR 1 SHARON and FAIRVIEW 3646622 SOUTHPARK SHAMMGMFAMMINFID 3646622 EXCLUSIVE ENGAGEMENT FEATURES TODAY AT 2:004:457:3510:05 A UNIVERSAL PICTURE sn-1234 171 GaPritea ER1 NOW CHECK INDIVIDUAL ADS FOR TIMES MRKI511 CINEMA a PARK RV? e5151iIWY 51 I INOVINDENCI AVM A IASTWAY DI There's more to do in-StIONY than ski 't mr ire i 9 1 1 Avok' 1 i i ti! vf letittist 010 kP 5 1 nill il itel i 5 14 :3 I tk4 Iss 4F-0 4k -1 vso 4 i '1 Av" 0 vos 4 'z- utlioaolftM 1 0 1 0 i 4:: ''4 t' I 44 '49 ltits cf ''t45 i r'e '''P 4 411111b fil ii -2'L3- 11 kr2s 1 i'g '01Picstoo ----'-'-'-''1t 4 I "oso s' gt a i 1 a Irit I :1 1 l'0 t- 4 '-1p f' tip 0o -0 ama i r'-'" c' tlii 41 --( 1 Vf I- "I 1 4" 1k 0 Rt A i 9 TH1v 1'011E1 a a IL II TO K1kAtV 01 vveyrixsra I EXACTLY WHA 'ROY tifiNKI CHRISTOPIIERPEORG Ai I IVRT EDMUND' URDOWINDeDA I Atibs CA REIM WO IUDIli 111' 1 A I I A FOR A CHAINSAW 'MASSACRE! 011 ck-i' kl 'i '44441 Itt44i' 77 i i w' (t e44 i6: I 0 i IttitlItt or StV- 1tt: iNN1 tot 101 1:: -t :::1 '1: 4 1 I $7 III UP5 EXACTLY WHA YOU giltgli (4- cHRis-ropliEBGEot3G As I MT I EDMUND' URDOIWKINDA DA I AN CA io e4-ip a I Dp1511ANDACTIRICIOH 6 ADO 174yAivisra'ilik DICKBANDALUZSIELYEMANASIA AN EDWARD FELDNIAN PRODUCTION "HOT DOGthe movie" DAVID NAUGHTON PATRICK HOUSER TRACY SMITH JOHN PATRIN RECER FRANK IPTIP PALAc SHANNON TWEED' 'CHRISTOPIER KNIGHT Pol: NIKE MARVil 44 PAUL PETER BERNSTEIN eiGN 1--L7T7Tr7---1 'I MIKE MARVII EDWARD FELDMAN MARKLE 00G (OWNS al MOS telide AN EDWARD FELDIVIAN PRODUCTION "HOT DOGthe movie" DAVID NAUGHTON 08No4n44 5PMILLW 1 2:304:256:208:1510:10 otro3mCgiliii 4 IMO 2:455:157:5010:10 FARK-5I CINEMA 0111rGENERACCINEMA EASTLANDIMALL CENTRAL at SHARON AMITY 680408 CHECK INDIVIDUAL THEATRE ADS DAILY FOR SHOW TIMES PEW aeNenaCcoNemaaint EASTIANDIMALV at SHARON MII NOW SHOWING PLEASE NOTE DIFFERENT SHOW TIMES IFNI GENERAL CINEMACHARLOTTETOWNr IlINDINDINDENCI KINGS Dita375-8411111 PAM RD AT HWY 51 542-5551 41 I 7.