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By Molly Hopper
Staff Writer
In the movie business, U F/X"
means special effects.
In the movie “F/X,” Rollie
Tyler (Brvan Brown) is an F/x-
pert who is so good at creating
magic on camera that the gov
ernment wants to hire him to
do it for real.
The Justice Department has a
turncoat Mafia man, ready to
testify against the mob. The
mob will do anything to keep
him off the witness stand so the
Justice Department’s job is to
keep the turncoat, Nicholas De-
Franco (Jerry Orbach), alive un
til he can testify against the Ma
fia.
To make it all more realistic,
the Justice Department wants
Tyler to stage DeFranco’s assa-
sination in public to make the
public and the Mafia believe
DeFranco is really dead. After
testifying, DeFranco would be
set free and get a new identity,
and Tyler would get paid.
When the movie begins, Tyler
has everything a F/X man could
want: a great reputation, a
beautiful actress girlfriend, a
cute blond co-worker and a big
van with F/X painted on the
side. After the fake assassina
tion he’s lost everything except
the cute co-worker and he’s on
the run.
Fake deaths are a way of life
for Tyler. He’s the best in the
business at making death enter
taining and still realistic-
looking. But Tyler didn't count
on the Justice Department turn
ing on him.
Ironically, Tyler's predica
ment arises when he takes the
black magic he creates off of
the screen and puts it into ac
tion in the real world.
Bv doing so, the world of F/X
are no longer a game for Tyler.
His insulated paradise of
mo\de magic is gone, replaced
bv dark forces outside of his do
main.
Instead of being his profes
sion, F/X becomes a method of
survival. With F/X techniques,
Tvler makes the Justice Depart
ment and the local police look
like Keystone Kops while they
try to catch him. It’s what Joe
Bob would probably call F/X-
Fu.
Rollie TVler (Bryan Brown) pretends to shoot Lipton (Cliff De
Young) before taking some shots at Rosebud, the family pet.
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