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Page 6/The Battalion/Thursday, July 14, 1983 Just Movies This week’s movie listings MSC Grove fiarbarella: Jane Fonda stars in this comic book-type adventure. Join her exploits as Barbarella in another galaxy. Thursday. Rated PG. IVIy Favorite Year: Peter O’Toole stars in this hilarious comedy about a middle-aged actor who is afraid of becom ing a has been. O’Toole was nominated for an Academy award for his performance. Friday/Saturday. Rated R. Love Story: A classic tale of love immortalized on the screen. Only death can sepa rate this couple. This is also Couples Night— only $1.00 for student couples. Sunday. Rated PG. i3ome Like It Hot: Marylin Monroe stars in this campy drag comedy about two men who hide by joining an all women band. Monday. Rated PG. The Wind And The Lion: A classic tale of international intrigue and romance. Come and join the adventure. Tues day. Not Rated. Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs: A classic Dis ney animation of the famous fairy tale. For people of all ages. Rated G. Post Oak: 764-0616 Staying Alive: The sequel Staying to Saturday Night Fever. John Travolta stars as a dancer who wins the lead in a broadway musical. The music is still by the Bee Gee’s. Oh Gee. Rated R. Tlhe Survivors: Walter Matthau and Robin Williams star in this new comedy. The humor is more situation than anything else and unfortun ately hides the talents of both of these men. R. Stoker Ace: Burt Reynolds and Loni Anderson star in this excuse to “act” together. Reynolds is a race car driver and Anderson is the girl after his heart. R. Director Sylvester Stallone (right) works out a scene with his star John Travolta in Paramount Pictures’ “Staying Alive.” Schulman Six 775-2468 xVrthur:i _ Dudley Moore stars in this outrageous comedy about an alcoholic millionare who falls in love with a working class girl. Wednesday. Rated R. This time the villians are more humorous, and the movie seems to have taken a lighter look at itself for a change. If you have ever wanted to be lieve in a hero then you will enjoy this film. PG. W; \^«ass: Sneak Preview this Friday at 7:45. Plitt Cinema I&II&III 846-6714 Fu Manor East 823-8300 X orky’s II: Like the origin al Porky's this movie promises little plot, little acting skill, and small amounts of humor. This film is not totally wasted as it does have its humorous moments and it’s mild enter tainments. R. lashdance : A film with little plot and little acting ta lent but it has some of the most electrifying dancing and music that has come out of a movie in a long time. This Film does for New Music what Saturday Night Fever did for Disco. R. ar Games: What hap pens when a computer fails to make the distinction of a real war and and a war game to a 14 year old boy? See what hap pens as a young computer genius taps into the defense computers and plays war with the Russians for real. PG. Survivors rates three Warped of five possible stars ..AND THE WINNE MISS WONDERFUL ..IS.. MISS . HARFI .by Patrick A. Zinn Battalion Staff Contrived humor, situation laughs, Robin Williams, Wal ter Matthau, Jerry Reed, and extreme satire combine to make up The Survivors. The movie focuses on a business executive, Don (Robin Williams), and how his life becomes entangled with Sonny (Matthau), a gas station owner, and Frank (Reed), a would be-robber. Frank brings Sonny and Don together when he attempts to hold up the diner where the two are eating. When Don stands up to Frank and refuses to be robbed, Son ny comes to the rescue and saves Don’s life. One catch remains, howev er. In the struggle, Sonny catches a glimpse of Frank’s face. This leads to other more complicated situations. After the holdup, Don goes over the deep end and decides that it is time to become an “un-victim” and learn how to protect himself. He enrolls in a survival training course taught by a right-wing-neo fascist-racist. The comedy ensues when Sonny and his daughter visit Don, followed by Frank who tracks them down to silence the only people who know who he is. Unfortunately, it is the afore-mentioned situations which are depended upon to provide a vehicle for the com edy, a situation which stifles the men’s natural humor. The lines seem to lack energy and the actors’ actions seem to be lifeless and unreal — almost as if they had been rehearsed until they are merely mecha nical. However it is this bore- doom that often times makes ly to be witty; ikinufunorti is making fun of those to be stable in life into one routine within ty. It makes us bothhai afraid. Also maximizing the is Robin Williams characterization of young flourishinj Movie Review the movie funny (when it is) — the casualness which helps create the satire on real life that is trying to be portrayed. It is best exemplifieci by Walter Matthau’s perform ance. His character is — on the exterior — a very unsym pathetic man. He just wants to do what he always has done. In mediums other than satire or humor, Matthau’s Sonny would be booed out of the theater. But because this film re volves around the ridiculous to the point of satire, we find vidual with every for him. But after IwrJ and then robbed at tht| he has had it. As a hilarious madj toting “un-victim," 111 seems to have captatti essence of what provokH lence in Others. United Press Ini He manages to mil DALLAS — D; laugh at being afra tors said Sheriff I lashing out before a [jot respond to a lashes out at us. Heii offer in his drunke let the individual com and the case wou out of him althoughtl Monday, is at times limiting. District attori Reed also turns in; oham Tuesday si performance. He is cords from the ous as the robber and il hit-man and makesavi ful antagonist to the a I recommend thist The pacing is slow at i and at first glance the® has the potential of fe |eW ORLEA ful but somehow .t iven b , When the point of the foo / ba Test icalized and the jury can be understood, then the ^ 0 J n becomes humorous. ronian atahotd; Out ol a possible five® give this movie three. teresting but the feasibility of such a concept will lose you. R. The Man From Snowy River: Kirk Douglas stars in this western about a boy sud denly alone in the world who helps a girl struggling with life. In Dolby stereo. PG. R« Superman III: Another one of this summer’s sequels. R ocky Horror Picture Show: What happens when the all-American couple meets a transsexual? Watch this classic cult film and find out. Midnight. R. return of the Jedi: The third piece to the exciting Star Wars trilogy. I doubt seriosly if there is anywhere out there who doesn’t know what this film is about. If you don’t well then it is time to wake up and smell the coffee. PG. TTwilight Zone: This is a four episode movie length version of the old TV show the Twilight Zone. If you con sider two out of four episodes good enough then go see this movie. It makes you wonder who is in the Twilight Zone. R. Bi Trading Places: Eddie Murphy and Dan Akroyd star in this humorous “Prince and the Pauper“-type story. The two talents come together to make one of the funniest com edies out this summer. For good entertainment come see this one. R. has nothing new and exciting to offer. If you have ever seen a James Bond movie before, then you might as well say you have seen this one also. R. Star Crash : Crash accurate term in thisfil tie. Rated R. Done song] Skyway Twin Drive-In 822-3300 Though Enough: A Rocky rip-off about anr"^ ployed worker in the EasHvz X JL>I turns to boxing toearntii ing. Rated R. United Press I MINNEAPOL ► lue Thunder: Roy Scheider is in this flick about a honest man trying to save the public from the horrors of an over done riot control heli copter. The story line is in- O. 'ctopussy: The most in teresting thing about this James Bond flick is the title. This particular story follows the James Bond formula and Space Raiders: A sad adventure film which thinks it is a cross between Star Wars and Raiders of the Lost Ark. Rated R. "O Mergency rooi; X sycho II: Norman! country have bee back and the Mother last ditch attemp horror continues. Thisvable liver donor sticks to the original in; old Ashley Baile plimentary fashion, biiil§ will wonder if you arel ^‘ ie child s fa for paying $4.50 forfeOlH) mailgrar movie. R. ffiesday to tl Buns. - # Pantucl’s LlSining ivitlx a toudz of zCzganos. X All entree's now served with compli- ^ men tary slice of Samuels cheesecake. Monday-Thursday 5-9 p.m. a 403 Villa Maria • Reservations Accepted • Phone:, • 1W blks West of Texas & Villa Maria 775-1531 ^ Teen plays help audience Bailey, who the worse last we a) condition at Minnesota Hos food and being tube. United Press International ROCHESTER, N.Y. — The teenager comes home from school, takes a beer out of the fridge and flops down in front of the TV. “Michael?” his mother yells, coming into the room to turn off the set and yank the beer away from her son. “You know you’re not allowed to drink — what’s the matter with you?” Michael sits sullenly', without speaking, as his father joins in the confrontation. Soon the whole family is arguing, with everyone screeching and no one listening. It sounds like a typical family dispute, but there is something wrong with the scene. The son is black and his parents white. In addition, Michael, at 16, is only a year younger than his mother. All three actually are mem bers of Awareness Theater, a group of students between the ages of 14 and 18 who perform improvised skits for other teena gers and adult groups. Unlike many acting troupes, howevever, the Awareness Theater tries not only to enter tain, but to simulate situations that often present dilemmas to adolescents. Through enactments of scenes depicting family tensions, sexuality, alcoholism, divorce, peer pressure and young pa renthood, the group hopes to improve understanding and communication among teena gers and their families. “It’s exciting to do it for both the kids and the adults,” said Margaret Pine, a high school junior. “The kids our age are usually more responsive and more involved, but the parents take it from a different perspec tive, and they ask more ques tions after every skit.” Margaret — who was Michael’s “mother” in the alco hol skit — also has played a pre gnant teenager, the daughter in a Puerto Rican family and a teacher of illiterates. She was one of about 25 students selected for the two Awareness Theater groups after more than 100 auditioned. They take no special health or sociology, alfl| professional field worker® in on rehearsals to teadl basic points about thept] depicted in the improra such as alcoholism and il The Theater is part of Family Services of Rochester, Inc., a non-profit agency providing legal, medical and personal counseling to Monroe County residents. Under the leadership of dire ctor Mary Jo Amatruda, the Theater invents the skits and travels around the county per forming for school, church and social service groups. Most re cently, members appeared at a conference of professionals sponsored by the Service’s Ther apeutic Alternatives to Sexual Abuse program. After each skit, theai still in character — takt tions from the audience Spinder, who played Mai husband in the alcohdl fielded such queries don’t you want to deahii son’s problem?” and “Ait | family’s financial affairs | important than your son Parents find the skitsesi ly helpful. “Many adults comek|§ for a solution,” she said find it easier to talk to df who are not their own s SCHULMAN THEATRES - OFF ADULT TICKET > 1 1st SHOW EACH DAY SCHULMAN 6 775-2463 775-2468 2002 E. 29th :2:30 4:45 7:30 9:55 WAR GAMES Dolby 2:454:55 7:159:35 TWILIGHT ZONE (Dolby) 2:40 5:05 7:409:45 YELLOW BEARD 2:35 5:00 7:25 9:40 | TRADING PLACES 2:20 4:50 7:20 9:50 OCTOPUSSY (Dolby) JSOME • LIKE IT HOTri3!g!!*0::i REVERSE HI DRESS— I: COME IN DRAG— j| GET IN FREE! 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