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I 6D THE CHARLOTTE OBSERVER Friday October 5 1984 Nolte Stars In Black Comedy 'Teachers' xosuamm 'ici0 qini 6D THE CHARLOTTE OBSERVER Friday October 5 1984 Nolte Stars In Black Comedy Teachers cJ rGu-dmr-dGua rA ik I f-yTil 1 i 3 Jo Ann t' jr Rhetts A REVIEW 4 kir: 1 1 "Tito Bost In Chinos" "The Original Chinese Buffet" Mandarin Szetchuan Hunan BUFFET LUNCH MON-FRI 1 2:30 13 95 SUNDAY 1 3:00 14 50 BUFFET DINNER 9:30 1625 1675 TARE OUT SPECIAL LUNCH 1325 DINNER 1495 "'rho Best in Chinese" Dano as an aging teacher with a penchant for the ditto machine are all smashing realistic enough to be recognizable exaggerated enough to be hilarious You think you've seen all Nolte's stuff Then he wrinkles the basset-hound skin on his forehead growls like Wallace Beery and shambles off in a new direction Hirsch is actually brave enough to play someone as close to the bone and nasty as the Judd Hirsch who makes cracks about a canceled series at the Emmy awards This may also be the first time anyone's ever reined in Richard Mulligan and thus made him a lovable loony who wanders into substitute teaching Do take the kids to this one You may not like hearing what they recognize in "Teachers" but you should listen Dano as an aging teacher with a esootek otd sobs os LA oh nately more than compensates for this and the uncomfortable moment when Williams yanks off her clothes to score a point in an idealism debate with Nolte The point of "Teachers" after all is not what has gone before but what is happening right this moment at JFK where Nolte's Alex Jurel a 15-year veteran with tenure actually wants to teach even though his first wife "wanted something more than a teacher's salary could provide food shelter clothing" How does a school system keep good teachers and bad students? As Alex reaches out to Eddie Pilikian (Macchio) a sullen boy whose parents don't care how he graduates as long as he gets his diploma "Teachers" tips into melodrama losing its fine balance between comedy and drama only at the very end In his oversized coat and hat oversized eyes solemnly regarding a hostile world Macchio again proves himself one of those rare young people able to make the transition from television Is to major movie roles requiring something more than a pretty face Nolte Hirsch Allen Garfield Lee Grant William Schallert as the foggy principal and Royal nately more than compensates for 4i 537-VS7S 4400 RIDEPELIDEIICE BLVD matractrastraardevectraGuaGno Despite a dumb marketing campaign that makes it look like "Porky's XXV" "Teachers" is one of the 10 best movies of this year Maybe one of the five best So forget the rowdy ads that suggest "Welcome Back Kotter" Visualize Instead the wonderful faces of Nick Nolte and Ralph Macchio Think about how surprised and impressed you were by Macchio in last summer's "The Karate Kid" Unless you're under 15 don't listen to the raucous soundtrack selections on the radio Rowdy and raucous "Teachers" may be it's also one of those rare black comedies that holds together dramatically while needling the fraying fabric of our society The world of JFK High School In the unnamed metropolitan setting of "Teachers" (filmed in Columbus Ohio) may look like another world to anyone who hasn't been in a high school within the last decade But these unfortunately are too often the days of our lives Hollywood has a long and not always interesting academic record In the beginning teachers were saints founts of loving patience in movies like "Goodbye Mr Chips" (1939 and 1969) "Tom Brown's Schooldays" (1940 and 1951) "The Corn Is Green" (1945) and "Good Morning Miss Dove" (1955) Imagine Robert Donat or Jennifer Jones cussing out a trucculent student or smoking dope in the cloakroom In "The Blackboard Jungle" (1955) "Up the Down Staircase" (1967) and "To Sir with Love" (1967) teachers changed ever so slightly into saintly zookeepers Producers then unfortunately discovered what happened when the animals run the zoo they made big vast even bucks while loading movie screens with "Fast Despite a dumb marketing cam- mtti rein tin oh VV ete i bsesir WHEN IN SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA VISIT UNIVIOSIAL STUDIOS TOUR THE COMEDY fir( YOU'VE BEEN WAITING FOR MI IF YOU'RE GOING: "Teachers" is playing at Park 51 and Charlottetown Charlottetown tickets are 62 (all shows beginning before 6 pm children 12 and under at all times) and (all shows begin fling after 6 pm) Park 51 tickets are 62 (all shows beginning before 6 pm children 11 and under at all times) and (all shows beginning alter 6 pm) PARENTS' GUIDE: "Teachers" Is rated for profanity violence brief nudity Times at Ridgemont High" (1982) and a lot of Junk The first suggestion that teachers were people too came in 1974 with the estimable "Conrack" set in Beaufort SC Nine years later "Educating Rita" (1983) tiptoed a bit farther out onto this limb Now comes "Teachers" advancing the truly heretical notions that bad students needn't necessarily come from poor inner-city homes and that we're all teachers students parents and the voters who decide bond issues in this together Education says "Teachers" without being preachy about it is too much for teachers to handle alone It's the ultimate end-game and if we don't choose to get involved we can kiss tomorrow goodbye "If we fail" says vice principal Roger Reubel (Judd Hirsch) "anarchy or worse a baby boom Whaddya think those little monsters'll be doing if they leave school?" "Teachers" is 26-year-old WR McKinney's first screenplay and he and director Arthur Hiller Story" "Making whose movies are usually much mushier do waste some of our time with a lawsuit against JFK by a illiterate graduate whom we never meet The suit serves merely to introduce Jobeth Williams as another JFK graduate now a lawyer The gutsy humor of the rest of "Teachers" fortu -year-old VII creenplay and Arthur Hiller laking are usually lo waste some awsuit against whom he suit serves Jobeth Wil- JFK graduate gutsy humor ichers" fortu- "'ALL OF ME' IS A SLAPSTICK HIPSTER HYBRID OF 'HEAVEN CAN WAIT' AND 'TOOTSIE:" Hailer PEOPLE MAGAZINE 4 4:1: i e- 'c '5 I $7N I 1-1 r-: ma 00 Cinosna 1190 A IlkAter I I 0 11 Pill 1 I III 0 i ilir I 0 EEN 0 LATE SHOWS va TONIGHT ifk 4 0 ir InAIRI- 1 0 AT 31A) 4 WU A I 0 i 12:00 1411- I 'w FIRST RUN -4 0 They're not stasring 1 STEVE MARTIN LILY TOMLIN ALL OFME 1 AND 12:00 320-530 745-1 0:00 AND 1 2 00 EErs MO 011111 La-13511 roims 110 la liaLlItej 0 1' STEWART EVERETT THEATRES STEWART EVERETT THEATRES The comedy that proves that one's a crowd KINGS ROADSTEPHEN FRIEDMAN P0600 A CARL REINER cdAll OF ME" Slrg RICHARD 11BERTINI I ud VICTORIA TENNANT oi Tem WcAms BM 0 the 0 fol TwO bv ED DAVIS adcolohc bv HENRY MK Sc PHIL ALDEN ROBINSON PATRICK WILLIAMS AliCKet P061 PHIL ALDEN ROBINSON Noduced by STEPHEN FRIEDMAN chmied by CARL REINER 414 PARK TERRACEN CHECK INDIVIDUAL THEATRES FOR SHOWTIMES onostrum COMMA wiA EASTLAND MALL "pm fit SHARON 5611-0408- MIMI MO 10001111 $OM PIP S122 ALL I 'TIMES AND 12:00 PM GREMLINS HENRY THOMAS CAL AD Cannibalistic Humanoid Underground Dwellers) AND 12:00 PM INDIANA JONES and the Temple of Doom 11 SAT SUN 7700-905 CAUD If adventure has a name it must be Indiana Jones HARRISON FORD INDIANA JONES and the Temple of Doom PICTURE 1Z co-mai ALL $2oo SEATS 111 6PM SALLY FIELD PLACES OF THE HEART 1 PG IT WAS A TIME TO GET EXPERIENCE HOT MOVES ddh own there 7 oanymore! 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I SALLY FIELD IN: STEREO "PLACES IN THE HEART" (PO) 3:105:157:259:40 3:005:107:209:30 "HOT MOVES" (R) BEAR BRYANT'S STORY: 3:005:107:209:30 "THE BEAR" (PO: 3:105:207:309:40 "IMPULSE" (R) "THE KARATE KID)) 3:055:057:259:25 3:005:157:309:45 meal with one ofmany delectable desserts from our famous dessert bar EVERY FRIDAY NIGHT It's an all-you-can-eat buffet at a price that won't soak you $1395 for adults $595 for children 10 and under Tax and gratuity not included Buffet served from Reservations recommended eLo)NdibolitiO 441110- i 94e 1 i'o---- 1 meal with one ofmany 211V0041It ir1 i delectable desserts from our detAtobrls 444" lpItovi teel 1 famous dessert bar 06004w '1" mt 4117 1 sm EVERY FRIDAY NIGHT Ali be pm i :11:747 Ifeit IfrigpSiMw-l fityle -g tgl -l' 1 1111A rIN Ill ''S'' I bilt Its an all-you-can-eat tf 1: 4 61 i buffet at a price that won't i A tfi 19- 11 soak you S1395 for adults if-v mgr mo tild $595 for children 10 and tilt 1- 00404-460 -2 4 under Tax and grratility not --r---01" iate AtIA included Buffet served from 4Z)-1 '11- 11-erN 1 2-tvs Reservations El '1 i 149 -i I recommended N' REGENGY 6434 ALBEMARLE ROAD ADMISSION $100 ALL TIMES' PHONE 536-5378 i Come ashore and savor the flavors of our succulent seafood and prime rib buffet It's an experience in which beefand seafood lovers will delight Choose from an array of freshly prepared delicacies includingseafood appetizers fresh fish and vegetables Then taste our seafood stews Or try our special salad bat And finish your 2455007:159:30 They're not staying down there anymore! 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