Fort Worth Star-Telegram from Fort Worth, Texas • 69

I Friday PM May 27 1988 Fort Worth St-Telegram I Sectk 4 Page 7 --Emsnisata Noonamonst Life wasn't that hectic during the real '68 ri MEMORIAL DAY SAL-1-1 Review: Film SPORTMIX RATION DOG FOOD 50 Lb Reg 995 F5)ft- Diazinon Granules 10 lb BAG Reg 740 SALE 495 Hirie Id 5 Diazinon it 0rdok vostwommi 110 SALE 895 f68 Price's pick: 6 on a scale of 1 to 10 Writer-director: Steven Kovacs Featuring: Eric Larson Robert Locke Sandor Tecsi Anna Dukasz Neil Young Ron Turner Wavy Gravy Rated: (language adult situations) film's running time after all is only slightly more than 112 hours More successfully Kovacs and camera boss Daniel Lacambre capture the milieu with historical accuracy and dazzling pictorial values The casting of Neil Young who of course was part of the latter '60s' revitalization of rock music is an inspired touch Other authentic period figures on view include the impromptu concert emcee known as Wavy Gravy and Frisco publisher Ron Turner who helped to pioneer the underground comic book Peter in a convincing display of idealism under pressure is expelled from school goes to work for a tough biker-type named Westy (veteran rocker Neil Young) and gets involved with the political upheavals of the period Kovacs whose credentials as a producer include the underappreciated crime drama The Lady in Red (1979) pulls believable emotional responses to most of these situations from his players But a single family crisis would be enough and Kovacs' tendency to pile problem atop problem reduces most of the ordeals to trivial vignettes The 80' REINFORCED HOSE Beg 1995 r0 SALE Reg 1995 PP-' )'-s' SALE ('PBELT KILL FIRE FIRE ANTS WITH AMDBO Lb Beg 895 MC-96 Qt 795 HI-YIELD 5 Lb Bag 457 ti1ytLin14 ---w 0 V3 MC-96 Qt 795 nyIELD 5 Lb Bag 457 BY MIGIAEL II PRICE Fan Worth Star-Telegram sociological density and 'enough personal trauma-drama to pad a year's wOrth of Al! My Children struggle for pcominence in '68 a thick and unevenly: savory soup of tortured reminiscences This belated New World Pictures relehse arriving today more than a year after its first festival showings is a prilliant if failed attempt by writer-director Steven Kovacs to reconstruct the youthquakes of a generation ago The hippie movement is integral to '68 and so are the late 1960s' revolutiOnary developments in rock music aqitudes toward sexuality student political involvement civil rights and drug use issued when new '68 would have benefited from a close-in-time association with Platoon (1986) Oliver Stone's embittered and hugely well-received memoir of how it felt to fight in Vietnam during that troubled er5 Now without a similar more cOherent and more popular box office aqraction to make its subject matter PROM BRIDAL HEADQUARTERS El seem fashionable Kovacs' noble film faces a struggle at reaching an appreciative audience The Budapest-born Kovacs' largely autobiographical screen story pivots on the irmnigrant clan of Zoltan and Zsuzsa Szabo (Hungarian stage veterans Sandor Tecsi and Anna Dukasz) who by 1968 have spent 12 years struggling to establish a successful restaurant business in San Francisco Zoltan a blind-faith believer in Americanism cannot comprehend why his son Peter (Eric Larson) would embrace the anti-establishment attitudes that prevail among American youth FERTILIZER 15-5-10 With Sulfur 50 lb bag 495 Beg 595 SALE aLl PRICES GOOD THRU 6-3-88 't nit Arl et MARSHALL U'RAIN GIJ 1 2224 LANCASTLN 536-5636 7R ARIAL BELT' REIRFi2Rp LigO 88 OPEN MEMORIAL DAY 2739 MAIN Open 626-2741 Weekdays Sat (Ad FERTILIZER RAL I 15-5-10 Liglisa With Sulfur I 50 lb bag Pv 'LAI 88 4: 495 i Beg 595 SALE -'PRICES GOOD THRLI 6-3-88 OPEN MEMORIAL DAY 111R MASHALL IRAN 1 '0 '1G I 2224 LANCASTER 2739 MAIN 536-5636 Open 626-2741 Weekdays Sat Hundreds in Stock Many at Unbelievable Sale Prices Prom Bridal Bralesmagl Gowns Mother Dresses Pageant Gowns Party and Hower Girl Dresses Long Street length Tea Length Dresses Sizes 1rs 3-15 Misses 420 sizes 1411-28 40411kpaiktlar8e Sues Up to 44 8 Shop I i 1 '474 44 1 a Sump" Ear the iliddly but the 4 8 WAP0e8i11011I "Co mmomm 1440 1 libmoriMe PISA WPM 'Jack's Back' is worth its popcorn salt 7 0 I- yP 4 4 ft Ili 0 tt fee! of th ettrth 0 1 I 0 1 1 it ee gm 41 i 1' tt I of th 1 I 0 1 lit 1ti ts i i i iv zi i ith 4 1 re 1 11 El 41 1 I 0 Is' s' i 4 "-''40' 44 L'L'4r00eN '71'7'2' ''''''''A''' 7)" tokl -A -4 '10- 1114i 4641 71 i 'A' '1 o' teko Iti 4404144- iObt' 4 4 1 i Cs4krI 1 Ill't i AiMp4 '0' kouoir- 1 i 411ji4p' eA: I 4: 4:1 x-- 0:: 44 i 7-i'll 71 i' i 7 44:: i) iit I' fc-" 3 -7 12: BY MICIIAEL PRICE Fort Worth Star-Telegram 1 Amid all the box office noise generated by the convergence of Rambo III II and Willow on n6ghborhood screens this weekend firids some less loudly promoted amyals that are worth a look count on holdover runs for the likes of Jack's Back The Suicide Club aict Stars and Bars But then the same could have been said for an extremely boring new scieice-fiction snoozer called Nightfall -4 which today begins its third week of a limited engagement No accounting f9r-tastes or for staying power a rundown on the weekend's Wer arrivals: 1 Jack's Back Here at last is an impressive star urn for the excellent young actor James Spader It's a psychological 'thriller that suggests a present-day of the Jack the Ripper murders of a century ago Spader has delivered memorable 'supporting enactments in such popu lar movies as Wall Street Pretty in Pink Mannequin and Less Than Zero Jack's Back Spader plays twin ibrothers either of whom may be for a sequence of killings This far-fetched debut offering from writer-director Rowdy has its share of schlock and tends to overuse the red herring elements but is basically a worthy genre piece with some wonderfully disorienting twists Herrington knows Spader's dramatic strengths the star is most convincing when conveying an apparently menacing presence and plays to them brilliantly Price's pick: 6 on a scale of 1 to 10 Writer-director Rowdy Herrington Featuring: James Spader Cynthia Gibb Chris Mulkey Rated: (violence sexual situations) Candidum Caladium Caladiums Color in shade! 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