ENTERTAINMENT
Courtesy Photo
M,irina (Demi Moore) and Dr Ale* Tremor (Jett Daniels) partake in
countertop conversation (left), and she and her husband l eo
Vi'mke (George D/undia) share a butcher-shop laugh
Butcher s Wife falls short without an antagonist
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FILM The Bute hot s Wile ts currently
showing at Movies 12 at the Gateway
Malt. Rated PG-13
• don I botftor * * »• <onl.
odd mot th t*o t>m« dddd i dull mm
Thr Butcher's
Wifi■ is supposed
to tie <1 IIl.tgil.il
fairy t«ilo, but the
aspet i of surprise
that is nec essary to
make a situation
magic al is com
pletotv missing.
Demi Mixire plays the beau
tiful, naive clairvoyant from
North Carolina, named Mari
na, who follows the man she
thinks she saw in a dream to
his sunny and quirky neigh
borhood in Manhattan She
follows him because she
dreamt that she was to marry
him He is played by the older.
overweight, kindly butcher,
played by veteran character .u
lor lieorge D/uml/.i
Wit soon learn (hill, natural
ly, l)/.undza is not her man of
ilrstmv Rather, it is the hitter
looking psychiatrist Alex
Tremor, played by Jeff Daniels,
who Is to fill her life with bap
piness
Marina's purpose in this bor
ough is to he the matchmaker
of the new age But as soon as
she arrives, everyone's fate
falls mystically into a romanth
order Therein lies the major
problem In the movie
ITom the beginning, every
character is set up to see a hap
py ending, all of which are
telegraphed within five nun
tiles of their introduction
There’s no suspense' or won
derrnen! about how or if it will
happen It's simply inevitable
And just who are these char
.11 Iits' i In*V II’ nil! fli'slti'il ullt
or Inillt uji pvim; thrm .mv
st'osr of i onM'tjuimi I Ih*s it*
miinilv outlini". wI.mIi culm*
uii-nllv form .i fniMifly ^roup
nf nnlhmj! inorr Ih.io i.lovvns
She runs around
charming the
pants off everyone
and having all the
other people
realize that their
lives were
pointless before
they met her.
11it*v all tons of warmth
and kituifu'ss 1 think i might
hav»* cvimi gotten a navitv
w.iichtng ilus movie
ihe plot hears mure than .1
passing reselllblunre It:
\lntiiftrut k Thete's .nr imti.il
iy misinutihed toiiple tint) Ihe
nhjet l is lii gel those who he
long together iu lull in love
Che (llilereme Is tli.it III
<i/isine » the . Ii.ir.u lei
.lul situations were h.e.eti iri .1
reality thill W,ts |. .eitlv Ilienll
fi.ihle lii uudient e ntoiuliers
In 7/ie Hun her s It i/e. how
ever, there is no grounding u!
.1 MV kind i.ai h 1 i1.1r.1t ter li.is
tr.nts which .ne liirusl upon
them simply lo make them un
usual and endearing
You may say. "It's a fantasy
U li.il do you expei I(Irani
eii. lull shouldn't a fantasy
have somnthing lo sav ahout or
have some relation lo reality'
With no purpose involved in
Ihe fantasy it remains merely
trivial
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protagonist anil <ui antagonist
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string ul lusignitiianl and ciiln
mi uinils leading up In wry
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