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Wednesday, March 4, 1992
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Big names can't save thriller
By Seames O’Grady
UP entertainment editor
The toughest kind of film to
make is a suspense thriller and the
worst films ever made are mostly
bad suspense thrillers, which is the
case for “Final Analysis,” starring
Richard Gere and Kim Basinger.
Issac Barr (Gere) is a well-
respected psychiatrist. One of his
patients, Diana Baylor (Uma
Thurman), continually tells Barr
about her dream, about arranging
flowers, and that he should meet
with her sister, Heather (Basinger),
since she could help with Diana’s
treatment
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Issac Barr (Richard Gere) confronts Heather Evans (Kim Basinger) in “Final Analysis.”
Barr meets with Heather and,
even though she’s married to a sadis-
tic and crooked building contractor
(Jimmy Evans played by Eric
Roberts), he falls in love with her.
That’s about the time Jimmy winds
up dead and Barr must help Heather
out, but then Barr slowly realizes
that he could be implicated for the
murder.
The first half of “Final Analysis”
is revealed slowly to the audience
much in the same way that a patient
reveals himself to a psychiatrist. In
the second half, however, it seems
as if the mental patient has gone into
a screaming fit. Everything but the
kitchen sink is thrown at the audi-
ence. Little things that were on
screen for maybe 10 seconds, like
some drawings, a dumbbell handle
and even a lighthouse, come back
out of the woodwork to haunt every-
body.
The funny thing about “Final
Analysis” is that the entire film is
told to the audience in the opening
credit sequence and, even funnier,
the 10 minute opening is better than
the two-hour, 10-minute film.
At certain points during “Final
'Fish Police,' 'Capitol Critters'
animation fizzles in prime time
NEW YORK (AP) — The imme-
diate problems shared by ABC’s
“Capitol Critters” and CBS’s “Fish
Police" fairly leap off the screen at
you.
Rats, cockroaches, certain fish
and nearly all invertebrates are
banned from membership in the
Funny Animals Union.
Moose and squirrel? Funny.
Carp, squid, slug and cockroach?
Not funny.
Prime-time television has been
remarkably inhospitable to funny
animals. Only humans in cartoon
form like “The Flintstones” and,
most recently, “The Simpsons” have
hit it big in prime time.
It’s certainly no place for “Capitol
Critters,” on ABC Wednesday, or
“Fish Police,” which joins CBS’s
lineup on Friday. They manage
simultaneously to be expensive,
elaborate and painfully earnest artis-
tic failures.
“Critters” (71st in the ratings last
week) is about Max, a country
mouse who moves into the White
House, already tenanted by a vigor-
ous population of rats, mice, cock-
roaches and other urban vermin.
The comedy, such that it is, is
mostly physical and typical sitcom
repartee. Given the setting, the
political humor is so bland as to be
almost nonexistent. A clutzy, vice-
presidential cat? Hilarious.
“Fish Police” is entirely a Hanna-
Barbera show. It calls itself a “stylish
‘fish-noir’ comedy” about the
exploits of Inspector Gil (“a cop
who’s a carp”) among the undersea
denizens of squalid Fish City.
“Fish Police” has some of the
most beautiful animation ever done
by Hanna Barbera. Its colors are
vivid, its backgrounds painterly and
detailed. The action has a smooth-
ness and depth. It costs $600,000 per
episode.
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It gets to the point
where you want to
scream at the
screen, “Will you
just end it, for cry-
ing out loud!”
Analysis” you think the film is about
to end, but nooool There’s still a
good 20 minutes left. It gets to the
point where you want to scream at
the screen, “Will you just end, it for
crying out loud!”
Gere plays Barr with his cool-
daddy schtick that has coasted him
through most all of his films.
The only truly compelling perfor-
mance is from Basinger, but as the
film progresses and things start hit-
ting the fan you just don’t care any-
more.
“Filial Analysis” tries to out do
Alfred Hitchcock but actually comes
off more like Mel Brooks’ Hitchcock
spoof “High Anxiety.”
“Driving Miss Daisy” will be presented Saturday at 8 p.m.
Lutcher to present
Pulitzer Prize-winning
'Driving Miss Daisy'
By Dawn Shoup
UP contributing writer
“Driving Miss Daisy” will be
performed at the Lutcher Theater
in Orange Saturday at 8 p.m.
The play, written by Alfred
Uhry and based on his grandmoth-
er’s life, is about Daisy Werthan, a
Southern widow, and her black
chauffeur, Hoke Coleburn. Daisy
and Hoke’s relationship, which
spans the civil rights movement,
has caused a commotion since the
show’s debut.
Hoke is hired to drive Miss
Daisy around after she drives her
own car into a ravine — demolish-
ing the garage she lands on and
wrecking her automobile.
“She didn’t even break her
glasses,” Uhry said. *
Uhry wanted to tell what the
South was really like while telling
a story about two radically differ-
ent people.
“I was tired of all these stereo-
types that white people were run-
ning around being openly hostile
and rude toward black people, and
that black people were standing
there hat in hand saying, ‘Yassir
boss,’ or else being firebrand revo-
lutionaries,” he said. “None of
that was true in our case.”
The actors feel this play is a
love story between two people
with no means of telling each
other about their feelings.
“People have asked me why I
didn't write a scene where some-
one says, ‘I love yp*i,’ “ Uhry said.
“Never. Sentiment was never
going to get into my grandmoth-
er’s way. When I was a little boy
and wrote her letters she would
send them back to me corrected."
Call the box office at 886-5535
or 1-800-828-5535 for $12.50, $10
and $7.50 tickets.
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