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FILM
OPENINGS
May 2 * JO JO DANCER, YOI R LIFE LS
CALLING -A ho( black comic is forc ed lo
re evaluate his life when he is nearly
killed by his involvement with drugs
Sound familiar'* The star, director, writer
and producer is Richard Pryor Now does
it register'
MAY 2 « BUT C ITY This week's brat
pack movie stars Judd Nelson as a rebel
lious kid who returns to his hometown
and discovers someone has killed his fa
ther It's up to Judd and his young sister,
played by Ally Sheedy, to find the mur
derers
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Marta) arts man Pm Morrta and Ralph Macchto art
atvc and luckmg in Kan* Kid!.
MAY 9 © COBRA Sylvester Stallone
and Brigitte Nielsen the Richard Burton
and Eh/abeth Taylor ul the 80s star in
this detective thriller about the search for
a serial killer
MAY 16 © A FINE MESS This film start
ed as a laurel and Hardy short called The
Music Hux For his new version, director
Blake Edwards added stars Ted Danson
and Howie Mandel, some manic Ran#
sters, lots of slapstick and several dozen
complications, and came up with a full
length movie If it's half as funny as Stan
and OUie’s original, it should prove to he
anything but a mess
JUNE 6 © BIG TROUBLE IN LITTLE
CHINA Kurt Russell discovers there's a
very scary world existing lieneath China
town in his John Carpenter adventure
comedy that's promising to Include cv
cryihing from kung fu lo killer ghosts
Jl'NF 13 « BACK TO SCHOOL Rod
ney Dangertield is the owner of a chain of
Tail and Eat sliops He decides to become
even more well rounded by reluming to
school 10 continue his education
JUNE IH « CLUB PARADISE This
comedy about a singles resort stars Robin
Williams. IVter O'Toole, Rick Morant*.
Eugene levy. Twiggy and Andrea Martin,
and was directed by Harold Ramis (Sa
ttonal Lampoon's Vitiation) With a
group like this, it would lie hard NOT to
be funny.
JUNE 20 « LEGAL EAGLES Robert
Bedford's lust movie since Out of Africa,
Debra W inger s hrst movie sinc e Terms of
Endearment, director Ivan Redman's
hrst movie sinc e (ibosthuslcrs and Daryl
Hannah's first since well, since the
Clarenc e Clemmons Jackson Brown vid
eo It's a murder mystery' comedy set in
the New York law and art scenes
JUNE 20 o THE KARATE KID. PART
II The friendship between the teenage
boy (Ralph Macchio) and his wise old ka
rate instructor (Pat Monta) continues as
the pair travel to Okinawa for more mar
tial an.s competition and a chance for the
old man to lace his memories
JUNE r « LABYRINTH David Bowie
is one of the the few humans in this fanta
sy adventure from Muppet treater Jim
Henson There's no Kermit or Miss Piggy,
but Henson and company have c reated a
whole new world of other characters (so
clear off your toy shelves, store-owners).
JUNE 27 o AMERIC AN ANTHEM
Olympic gold medalist Much Gaylord re
turns to the world of gymnastics, but this
time as an actor who plays a young man
trying to compete while dealing with
peer, coaching and parental pressures
Janet Jones plays his girl, and Allx-rt Mag
noli who helped Prince film Purple
Rain is writer and director
ABYRINTH wMt / JOHN BROWN
Far Lett Daryl Hannah wl
tmg pretty m Ivan
Redman's new romantic
action comedy, Legal Ea
glet. Left George Luca*.
David Bowie and Jim
Hen ton combine artistic
energies in the lantaay
adventure. Labyrinth
JUNE 27 « RUNNING V AMI D Hilly
Crystal and Gregory Mines play «»l all
things '^rugged undercover cups" In
this action comedy set in the badlands ol
Chicago
JUNE 27 • RAW l»EAI When will
those lead guys ever learn' You fust don't
cross Arnold Schwarzenegger Herr he
deals with Chicago mobsters Guess
who s left standing'
JUNE 27 • RITIII.l-.vs niOPU Hette
Mailer stars as a kidnap victim no one
wants n< *r her millionaire huslratal,
not her hapless kidnappers, no one
Seems she's a bit hard to get along with
(not Hette') Danny DeVito and Judge
Kctnhold co star The directors are the
loons who created Airplane? /taker,
Zuc ker and Abrams
JULY • HEARTBURN The intriguing
star pairing ol Meryl Streep and Jack Nlch
olson would probably make a movie in
KMy McGiOu (Witnttt) and n trammf navy fighter
pdot Tom Cnaaa combine force* m Top Gun. Al
though Crude w in ■ nafcy buunni, ha gad aanout
for It** flick
(cresting if ii consisted of readings from
(he phone hook In this case, however,
there's an antral story, and It s an atlapta
non of Nora Ephron's (unofficial) auto
txographnal comic novel about the
breakup ol her marriage to journalist Carl
Hernstein
JULY « SHORT CIRCUIT haywire wlr
mg turns a military robot into an AWOL
peace at tlvist Steve CiuUcnherg Is the sc I
enlist on the robot s trail and Alb shcedy
is the met hanical rebel's new friend
JULY l c THE I-TITLE SHOP Ol IIOR
HORS first it was a low budget movie
Then It was an off liroadway musical
Now it's a big budget movie musical It's
the story of a nerdy flower shop employ
ee anti his people eating plant which eats
and eats until it has swallowed most of
the cast Kick Moranis stars, and Steve
Martin and Hill Murray have c amt-os
JULY 1 o PSYCHO III l-ast time we
saw Norman Hates, he was giving his