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     I don’t want to sound 
     
     oo pessimistic about this 
     
     movie. It did have some 
     
     hice touches. For in- 
     
     tance, the suburban home 
     
     f the parents is perfect 
     
    

    
     down to the oak pan- 
     
     Jliing and Readers’ Digests 
     
     n the bookshelf. Simi- 
     
     arly, Patty, Joe, and Bongo 
     
     ive in an,old 2. story house 
     
     hat looks rather large from 
     
     he outside, but the inside 
     
     as purposely crowded and 
     
     oiled to get the poverty 
     
     dea across. 
     
    

    
     Leading up to the best 
     
     hart of the movie is a 
     
     brief, but well placed scene, 
     
     turing which Bongo calls 
     
     oe, “Dad”. Joe imme- 
     
     Hiately catches him on it; 
     
     he scene really shows how 
     
     uch confusion Bongo is 
     
     iving in. The best part 
     
     bf the movie is held back 
     
     or the end. The audience 
     
     ell absolutely silent dur- 
     
     ng the mother - daughter 
     
     onfrontation scene. That 
     
     icene really pushes Jett’s 
     
     icting ability to the limit. 
     
     bhe accomplishes an incred- 
     
     ble feat - she plays the part 
     
     hccurately without screw- 
     
     ng up. The mother, Row- 
     
     lands, also does a fantas- 
     
     Hic job with her part where 
     
     he finally loses some of 
     
     er stereotypical deranged 
     
     housewife lines. 
     
    

    
     The producers wanted 
     
     o change the ultra - conser- 
     
     ative nice-boy image that 
     
    
   
   
    
     Micheal J. is so famous for. 
     
    
   
   
    
     _Throughout the movie, his 
     
    
   
   
    
     efforts to get the family 
     
     back together cast him far- 
     
     ther and farther into his 
     
     typical style. He comes 
     
     across as a deeply car- 
     
     ing, rock ’n roll brother to 
     
     Patty. Perhaps he is a star 
     
     in the movie because he 
     
     buffers the goodness of his 
     
     mother against the harsh- 
     
     ness of Patty. 
     
    
   
   
    
     One of the best tests for 
     
     a movie is the watch test. 
     
     During a good movie, one 
     
     generally can’t get the urge 
     
     (or the time) to look at his 
     
     watch. I just had to look 
     
     during the second hour. 
     
     The movie isn’t well paced. 
     
     It’s rarely fast paced - and 
     
     when it’s slow; it’s really 
     
     slow. I don’t know what 
     
     else to say. The PR peo- 
     
     ple see this as just another 
     
     Michael J. Fox movie, but 
     
     I cannot stress how much it 
     
     isn’t. This is his first dra- 
     
     matic role where he doesn’t 
     
     play someone younger than 
     
     himself. 
     
    
   
   
    
     Even though Jett is 
     
     the movie’s real star, it 
     
     lacks something ‘extra to 
     
     make her outshine every- 
     
     ones’s expectations of Fox. 
     
     Overall, I have’to rate this 
     
     movie at 5.0 on a scale of 
     
     ten. Sure you-can go see 
     
     it, but I wouldn’t guarantee 
     
     that you'll want to go back 
     
     for mores 
     
    
   
   
    
       
     
    
   
   
    
     ANS fYveuLD HAVE Cor Away wim IT If 
     
    
   
   
    
     (T Had NoT BEEN FOR You 
     
    
   
   
    
     MEDDLING KIDS AND YOUR boc! 
     
    
   
   
    
     v 
     
    
   
   
    
     - SopY-D00 SAVES EUROPE 
     
    
   
   
    
       
     
    
   
   
    
     Looking for a place where they 
     
     turned the clock back to the days 
     
    
   
   
    
     when men were men, and women 
     
     were women, and Rock was Rock n 
     
    
   
   
    
     Roll! 
     
    
   
   
    
     Looking for a place that plays hits 
     
     from the 60's, 70’s, 80’s all night 
     
     long? | ee 
     
    
   
   
    
     Looking for a place to let 
     
     your hair down, party and dance 'til 
     
     the wee hours?! 
     
    
   
   
    
     Looking for a place that knows 
     
     how to show you a good time? 
     
    
   
   
    
     Then you're loo 
     
     only at... 
     
    
   
   
    
       
     
    
   
   
    
       
     
    
   
   
    
       
     
    
   
   
    
     ‘Thursday, April 2 1987