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F7 The Sacramento Bee Final a Tueaday March 27 1990 General Cinema to the needs a jump start DOLBY STEREO A By Joe Baltake Bee Movie Critic THE WITCHES (G) 12:00 LITTLE MERMAID (G) 2:10 ENEMIESLOVE STORY (R) 3:504:00 STELLA (PG-1 3) 0:05 MME REVIEW sacraMentojNN ARDEN WAY crtFWY 80 925-4449 BARGAIN MATINIIS EVIRY DAY Ail SHOWS B1FORI 4:30 PM THUMBS SISKEL EBERT PRETTY WOMAN (R) SHOWN ON 2 SCREENS UTTLE MERMAID (G) A 1 2:30 MY LEFT FOOT (R) A Shock to the System Cast: Michael Caine Elizabeth McGovern Swoosie Kurtz Peter Riegert Will Patton Jenny Wright John McMartin and Barbara Baxley Director Jan Egelson Producer Patrick McCormick Writer Andrew Wavan (Screenplay based on a novel by Simon Brett) Cinematographer Paul Goldsmith Editors: Peter Frank and William Anderson Composer Gary Chang Distributor Corsair Running time: 90 minutes Ardan Greenback Rated MIDNIGHT MOVIES FRISAT SEPARATE ADMISSION part of the woodwork at first totally harmless but once his power is introduced amazing how impressive it is And this little nobody lives well very well: He had even before he makes it in office if you get my drift Reigert should have been the hero or anti-hero of Shock to the Maybe then it would have had the wildness and sense of exhilaration that it now lacks This game film about the inhumanity of business should have had alert sneaky personality Instead it has Michael aged overweight and slow I probably would have passed over Caine for Reigert too and a hunch the makers exactly have that kind of reaction in mind HIBIRDCAGESH savings'cinemTs 6075 5UNRISE BLVD 726-1200 THE FOLLOWING FEATURES SI OB AT ALL TIMES E3 I UNITED ARTISTS Arden fair cinema Mm Fair Csetsr 922-715S THE FORBIDDEN DANCE (PG-1 3) ALL DOGS GO TO HEAVEN (G) REVENGE (R) SA TANGO CASH (R) GLORY (R) TREMORS (PG-1 3) ALWAYS (PG) TOOAY: 12:002:00 I UNITED ARTISTS Movies greenback 7229 Grwnliaclt Iim-723 9011 TOOAY: 12:002:05 4:1 06: 1 08 :1 50 appreciated by both his wife and his bosses Graham plots two more murders killing off his wife and the kid who got his promotion Meanwhile a cop from Connecticut (Will Patton) catches on and so does an art department associate (Elizabeth McGovern) with whom Graham has been flirting Once Graham starts killing people which is the point of the film of Shock to the becomes less interesting Which is really odd Early on the film has some novel observant moments but they stop coming once the bodies start mounting The film works best when it focuses on the ingenuity with which a seeming nobody (the Riegert character) takes over He seems like 18th 1 BROADWAY 40 1982 ICHAEL CAINE has made so many movies during his 25-year career and so many bad movies and given so many naggingly familiar performances that turned mediocrity into an art form earning Oscars and Oscar nominations and fawning critical praise Caine is always so much better than his Caine elevates everything ad infinitum) not sure how much longer he can get away with the charade But it beats working for a living I guess and so Caine pulls off his likable (ie non-acting) once again in the new highly disposable comedy of corporate greed and inhumanity Shock to the System" which might have been better titled Hazards" The best that can be said about this grim fable of office politics is that a much-needed antidote to what television is doing in this area TV sitcoms are currently doing for the workplace what they did for home life in the '50s turning it into warm winning laugh-a-minute setup that just exist Shows such as and "Anything But with their cozy crazy extended families make you want to hightail it to the personnel office of your nearest high-rise while the big-screen equivalents and Shock to the System" with their creepy patriarchal chain of commands and requisite back-stabbing create an irrational longing for early retirement Neither view is very healthy nor accurate and neither conveys just how mundane work can be I take that back bored distracted look throughout Shock to the conveys it just fine Graham Marshall here a successful middle-age advertising executive who works in a swank New York high-rise and lives in a handsome county home in Connecticut with his wife Leslie (Swoosie Kurtz) iV iM Ncuu Showing! 10 BEST LIST Including Caro Bucklnni CSS-TV Roger Ebert SISKEL EBERT GugFlatleg COSMOPOLITES Richard Friedman SETWISE SEWSPAPERS GeneShalitSBC-T' JoelSiegelABC-TV Michael Caine takes cutthroat office politics to an extreme in Shock to the not as well off as they look because Leslie overspends Each promotion that Graham gets is necessary to finance their lifestyle and his next promotion is the biggest one yet and at his age probably his last With one of his colleagues (John MacMartin) burning out Graham is sure to get the promotion He has no competition At least no one his age competing for it But there are a lot of young guys around the office lately part of the new breed brought in by the conglomerate that just bought company and yes one of them a real smarmy type (Peter Riegert) gets promotion How on earth will Graham tell Leslie? She take this well thinking about this while waiting for his train home when a homeless guy asks him for some change Graham who is somewhat distracted pushes the guy away He falls and is hit by an oncoming train Graham still distracted just walks away surprised by how easy it was to kill and by how little remorse he feels All those years of working for a huge corporation have paid off! Feeling put-upon and cheated feeling that his generosity with his staff and co-workers have been un- KMatincDVnCadSufl BtoBaifdntMatlnewlinllnlsS: fGREENBACK LANE I LSO) KWiililAlil I 10:30 IEN 6 ETHAN WAY 1 IjtLjfay-H iATRE 922-7044 ww 7' in Ao 10:40 CINEMA PARADISO 6:40 9:15 g42 WATT AVE 1 GREENBACK SAN JUAtQi 1 aa i jf rciSH flllwll'MI rSis41 ATREB971-3423 THEATRE 723-9011 CAMILLE CLAUDEL 0 6:35 9:30 HWY 50 AT BRADSHAW IND JONES I mUliMiri LAST CRUSADE fivENsiswfcj (PG13) OPENS 6:30 NO PASSES COUPONS OR GROUP DISCOUNTS MY LEFT FOOT 6:50 9:00 fjy udiiPlfe lUE i CtEIE TO3)ii8MilU3xt BARGAIN MATINEE DAILY A MOVIES A ARDEN 1 st Two Films SUNRISE MALL 1 St Three Films MOVIES: THE TOP 10 BLIND FURY 1 0:30 1 A SHOCK TO THE SYSTEM (R) FOURTH WAR (R) $wz JOE VERSUS THE VOLCANO HARD TO KILL (R) JOE VERSUS THE VOLCANO (PG1 THE HOUSE PARTY (R) 6H9L9 MY LEFT FOOT (R) WAD OF THE HOSES (R) MAO HOUSE IPG-13) BAO INFLUENCE (R) 1 LOOK WHO'S TALKING IPG-1 3) STEEL MAGNOLIAS (PG-1 3) 8 No 1 debut for Associated Press Moviegoers were attracted to as the latest grown-up Disney film sunk Hunt for Red to debut as the top film in a weekend that liked Oscar nominees a modern-day Pygmalion starring Richard Gere as a millionaire trying to make a fair lady out of hooker Julia Roberts collected $113 million at the box office according to figures released Monday by Exhibitor Relations Co The thriller Hunt for Red submerged to second place with $91 million after three weeks on top The film so far has grossed $673 million Here are the top 10 films for last weekend: Weekend Weeks In Total Title receipts release receipts 'AMBLIN WARNER BROS A IIM1 i tNMHIAiNMINi NUNS ON THE RUN (PG-1 3) THE FOURTH WAR (R) A SHOCK TO THE SYSTEM (R) ARDEN FAIR MALL 1 HWY 50 AT BRADSHAW 1 OFF 65th Nr FLO DRIVING MISS DAISY (PGITHX SOUND BORN ON THE4TH OF JULY (R) LAMBADA (PG-13) GREENBACK LANE 1 1-80 f( THEATRE 338-1962 I SACRAMENTO! 4 iT! 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