The Kansas City Star from Kansas City, Missouri • 79

PREVlfWMOVIES SouthGlen 12 becomes South Quality 12 A soaring performance REVIEW TrTF Goodrich Quality Theatres of Grand Rapids Mich from the Mission-based Dickinson chain along with the Glenwood Theatre and several theaters in Missouri Robert Goodrich the new owner said he had no plans to rename the Glenwood because that theater had such pervasive name recognition among Kansas City The Kansas City Star The SouthGlen 12 Theatre is changing its name today to reflect its new owner The movie complex at 119th Street and Metcalf Avenue in Overland Park is now called the South Quality 12 It was purchased Thursday by Theory of The drama opens today and if rated for sexuality and language Running time is 1 hour 38 minutes Showing at the Town Center 20 Theatre But Theory of never quite gets off the ground By ROBERT BUTLER The Kamo City Star Helena Bonham Carter has moved beyond rok to become one of die more chameleonic young actresses in movies In the last few years played the earthy daughter of a Canadian coal miner in Museum nabbed an Oscar nomination for Wings of the and tackled Shakespeare in Night In many ways her work in the Brit-made Theory of Flight is among the best of her career Too bad then in a movie that just misses the mark on about every count Bonham Carter portrays lane a young woman in the last stages of ALS (also known as Lou spare parts found lying around his rented farmhouse lane who equates sex with flying wants to be on board when the semi-suicidal Richard takes his aircraft out on its maiden flight If Bonham Carter creates an indelible character despite the film's shortcomings Branagh leaves us wondering if he shouldn't just stick to Shakespeare This is yet another in a string of non-Shakespearean performances in which Branagh seems oddly ill-at-ease and A ROGERS Helena Bonham Carter and Kenneth Branagh in The Theory of Flight in which the compulsive Richard builds a working biplane out of Golden Globe Nominee Best Actressi Emily Watson LOVED THIS MOVIE A GREAT BOOK HAS BEEN TURNED INTO A GREAT JQEt SIEGEL GGOO MORNING AMERICA OF THE MOST COMPELLING LEGAL THRILLERS OF THE JAY CARR THE BOSTON GLOBE THUMBS SISKEL EBERT OF THE BEST LEGAL FILMS IN YEARS A FABULOUS GENE SISKEL SISKEL EBERT ENGROSSING THRILLER AND A RIVETING DAVID ANSEN NEWSWEEK SMART TOUGH RICHLY-ACTED AND CURIOUSLY MOVING RICHARD SCHICKEL TIME MAGAZINE GRIPPING FILM A VERY STRONG 1 JOHN TRAVOLTA IS AT HIS BEST ROBERT DUVALL IS JANET MASUN THE NEW YORK TIMES WONDERFUL AND IMPORTANT MOVIE THAT RANKS AMONG THE BEST LEGAL THRILLERS LARRY KING USA TOOAV BEST FILM OF THE MARTIN GROVE CNN UtttlHNClOm NOMIMHOVj' Ill si St miKIIV Mill HOKUM DUVALL JOHN TRAVOLTA a i i 1 Act i on amc mi IAffYWOOQS24 SHOWING! ST fcscmxEXSP amc im ONUS COT It PAMWAY Mon Colne Mil OHBMK DCIOWON SRC C8CMAM OUNWOOO UStJolmonO YWKMMcn TK-m 33MUM572 6000101 SRC AMC mi soumttAuni stowom nWl(IMaft mU JJWWffle MMC 9CKWS0NHKGB AMC mi 9KATHAUlt MmCBCtB IStStAS M291hS 333fllM61 7H6-1AMC DOQNSO EX GB rr imim WBT9U9Y1I a AGSAMctaWJ mivz HMtMtOT CALL 333-FILM lost the use of her limbs and now struggles even to control her voice and breath In a few months be dead This could be just another afflic tion-of-the-week role but Bonham Carter and screenwriter Richard Hawkins mke of lane a very unusual woman a fierce intelligence trapped in an unresponsive body and absolutely unwilling to go quietly into that good night angry profane stubborn and utterly intolerant of the syrupy homily-heavy caregivers assigned to her by a social services agency The most recent of is Richard (Kenneth Branagh) an artist who went ballistic when his girlfriend left him got into trouble with the law did a stint in a mental hospital and now is required to do community service as arms and legs Jane takes a liking to this ineffectual tormented fellow so much so that she confides to him that before she dies she wants to lose her vir-ginity She extracts from Richard a promise to help her do that which rakes the pair to London and a golo who charges a small fortune do the deed Richard decides to imee this venture by robbing the at which his former girlfriend vvui'ks Yes the plot line is a tad iffy especially the bank robbery bit And compounded by director Paul Creengiass failing to maintain the delicate balance between pathos and humor that is absolutely essential if Theory of to go spinning off into excess Oh there's another subplot one One Of The Best Films Of The Year! (iiihv linn in" imim tilin' tuul intelligent with lint seHstttlimtl (hair -caliber HMi llllt I II Kill I Mk IH 1 Astounding! Tv kmilifulh acted as il is dinricd edited ml nrilten MJ IHI UKK mils Oebtanding! Watson is imnieriiuj' 1 it hc siijtx pjuisti nuJtn aaiiabte any Classical nun STARTS TODAY Rl- Sun 1:15 4:00 6:45 and nvou MANOR SQUARE BybfwlB Friday January 22 1999 THE KANSAS CITY STAR Page 9.