Would-be artists struggling on the outer fringes of the Los Angeles creative community include May (Susan Dey), an actress supporting herself and her 8-year-old son by bartending and stripping for birthday telegrams Jonathan (Tom Hulce), a pizza delivery boy and aspiring songwriter and August (Michael Bowen), a bodybuilder. (STAR)(STAR) (STAR)(STAR)ĮCHO PARK (Chestnut Station). As Dreyfuss and Nolte tour the neighborhood, director Paul Mazursky gives us the Beverly Hills that we all-even the residents themselves-like to laugh at. He listens to their problems he supports their angst. Upon recovering, Nolte receives shelter from the family, and in return for a roof and some hot meals, he begins dispensing some aid of his own. Nick Nolte is a street bum who tries to kill himself in a wealthy man`s (Richard Dreyfuss) swimming pool but is saved. (Reviewed by Rick Kogan.) (STAR)(STAR)(STAR)ĭOWN AND OUT IN BEVERLY HILLS (Water Tower). For its many lighter moments, ''Critters'' is careful to balance its laughs with a number of chills. These two chaps not only have problems learning to drive a car but make a shambles of the town as they bumble around trying to locate their prey. Able to take on human forms, one bounty hunter becomes a rock star while the other takes on a number of townsfolk forms. They also are brighter than the intergalactic bounty hunters sent to destroy them. Landing on a farm in Kansas, they begin their toothy assualt on the Brown family. Called Krites back home, these eight beasts have appetites that would shame William Perry. Furry little monsters have escaped from a prison asteroid far away and have journeyed to Earth to do some culinary mayhem. Its pleasant sense of humor is most responsible for making this playfully scary film more satisfying than most of the other items on the monsters-from-outer-space-come-to-Earth-and- try-to-kill-everybody menu. (Reviewed by Richard Christiansen.) (STAR)(STAR)(STAR)ĬRITTERS (Dearborn). With Jonathan Pryce and Kim Greist as the lovers trapped in the sprawl of bureaucracy, and Ian Holm, Robert DeNiro and Michael Palin in supporting roles. Director Terry Gilliam`s darkly comic vision of a futuristic super state, though reminiscent of ''1984'' and other predecessors, is pictorially vivid and inventive, a brilliant cartoon peopled with bold caricatures moving in vast, crumbling spaces.
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