The Charlotte Observer from Charlotte, North Carolina • 70

10D THE CHARLOTTE OBSERVER Fri Dec 19 1980 10D TIIE CHARLOTTE OBSERVER Fri Dec 19 1980 it i 4 i 1 I (1-' --'t 'It''' f--- 4 A---1 1 "A'-- 14 41 4 s- 'k 4t 3 4 'At 4F47 I F- i a t- 's IN" -s it 1 I ty ItAv: i ks -s 44 i 0 L9' i414ms 1 1 "tl '''Ai' ik 1 Pit i 's r'i Jv: ii' ft4- 4 'fi't----i) -tFoot-loot 't i4 4 4- ---4 1t 1-3 ii' itg i I I 1 t-) 's''-''O''-'''t' I1 i 1 f-t ke 1 16-0' ill f- A s- 11 11 -ott 1 1 Foilda Tomlin Parton as members of the office typing pool 'Nine To Five' 'Canterbury Tales' TIMES: STARTS TODAY BOTH LOCATIONS PLEASE CHECK FEATURE TIMES DAILY NO PASSES TIMES: 7 HOP MacL I N- ANTHONY NTHONY I SHIRLEY A DER t74 i "::::5" 17rx------ 4: IINS 015 44A-'-''ii4: C''''- 1 -4507''--i' iii0 1 0: kik f' yer i 5 ik --s: '1imo '4' 2 4 l'i'' "5: iiki '0 4' rt" ''')11 1- ::1 k' -s- 7 4' 4 I Tr15 '4 '''I''' :::1 44k: -k f- -k 4 4:4 4A 4437e 20:0 I 0 ft -tit' "PI'''''' ''7- :1: 11 4 ::1::::: ft WI1 a a 1-it 1 sk: ---74of rs i 1 'h 0 'C' I 9 i I 1P-' 9 4' '5-1-- 9 17 A 1--4--: ftolUlt '7--'A vs '-r c)A 4 1 1 i :3 fl 44c--" --s'''' 1-1-': -1i-'-'1''- if --1 '7 ''t 4t14-401000111- 's 6 --f 5- 7-f2--- O'' ''w ''''s '5''' is: ''Y! 9' firIk 1 I' 1--'' 4 2i'l 'Y: ''''''''''fY 3 '9': 1 it 4 1 itr' :3 '''t': ii dr717 -1R i I irtis7 le 4 --i 'o: '''1' J'''' i' 1' mii ''i'''15'' i): 1 i I Al shrop 7 Odd erNi Aff: BOTH LOCATIONS NO PASSES TIMES DAILY jit STARTS TODAY 10ttitRA it 'ir TIMES: PLEASE CHECK FEATURE TIMES: 10:00 irrmanmEnuommommmomanmeme teeth are in order Speaking of rotten so's the movie In a few words it's cheap tawdry gro tesque vile and wagininainkmanomegon oddly enough for a film with 3therine total nudity and frequent copulaPln lation boring Pasolini for reasons only he knows thought it would be a real lark to turn Geoffrey Chaucer's pilgrim tales into pornography The movie made in 1972 is badly dubbed in English The sound track is so muddy the actors are generally unintelligible Not that you'd want to hear what they're saying The dialogue goes something like this: "I must trespass against you and make you suffer" (leering old man to his child bride on their wedding night) Pasolini also presents such fun spectacles as a man burning alive another man throwing up and then falling in what he's just regurgitated and yet a third fellow getting a hot poker where one most assuredly wouldn't want one Foul stuff Please miss it atherine hapin Catherine Chapin LI IF YOU'RE GOING "Nine To Five" is playing at South Park and Tryon Mall South Park tickets on weekdays are $2 until 6 pm and $4 thereafter Tickets weekends and holidays are $2 matinees $3 until 6 pm and $4 thereafter Tryon tickets ere $2 the first hour and $375 thereafter PARENTS' GUIDE: Rated PG "Nine To Five" contains profanity violence The Canterbury Tales" is at the lieulite Tickets aro $350 all times PARENTS' GUIDE: Rated "The Canterbury Tales" contains extreme violence extreme profanity total male and female nudity scenes indicating sexual intercourse sodomy and a few disgusting scenes that defy description Ask almost anyone about "Nine To Five" and the response is "Isn't that the movie Dolly Parton is in?" In a movie that not incidentally also I 4 stars Jane Fonda and Lily Tomlin it's tellm ing that Dolly 44 Parton seems to be the main in- REVIEW terest And given that "Nine To Five" turns out not to be a serious look at sex discrimination but a slapstick farce Parton's presence may be the movie's saving grace Tomlin Fonda and Parton play secretaries who have had it up to here with the boss a leering small-minded minor executive played by Dabney Coleman Coleman as narrowly drawn as his burned-up underlings not only subjects his secretaries to the humiliation of doing personal chores on company time but passes off their business ideas as his own He also and this should come as no surprise covets all of Parton's considerable assets The first hour shows promise as the trio silently fumes while being treated like messenger boys Someone's stack is about to blow and the impression is the results will be spectacular But that's where one movie ends and another begins Director Colin Higgins who says he spent time researching secretaries' complaints about their bosses apparently decided halfway through that sex discrimination wasn't all that funny His problem: "Nine To Five" was designed as a comedy So he switched from the serious allegations secretaries being forced to gas up bosses' cars and to submit to their advances to slapstick in which Tomlin Fonda and Parton get even with the rotten-to-the-core Coleman One night after a particularly frustrating day they share a marijuana cigarette provided by Tomlin's son and they imagine how each would do the boss in The sequences are amusing but jarring because their style so completely deviates from the first half When the next day Tomlin's fantasy of poisoning the boss seems to come true they scramble to cover the crime and then discover the body is very much alive In what becomes a fairly funny sequence they imprison Coleman engineer a bribe attempt and are finally vindicated The last hour is humorous but it doesn't deliver on the promise of the first Tomlin Fonda and Parton don't prove they're equals only that they have dumb luck They don't come off as thinking women but as the ding-a-lings caricatures the film's premise was supposed to refute For that matter the men don't do any better Coleman the only constant male presence is mean-spirited petty and unfeeling If the issue weren't taken so seriously in "Nine To Five" 's early moments the last half would make a good movie Even with the inconsistent tone Tomlin Parton and Fonda are effective as the beleaguered secretaries Parton with a refreshing candor is remarkably good in her first role The serious movie about sex discrimination is still to be made though Two requirements for Italian director Pier Pasolini's actors in the X-rated "The Canterbury Tales" seem to be rotten teeth and bad skin But in 14th century England I suppose at least rotten FT 1 7 fi 0 tt lc 0 111 tt g' tr "I 11 cli tli 7: UI ni II di rc ft 01 9: CI ni ar Ti A ME COMEDY TEAM teF THE 80's! 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