of the Devil himself. prom. Ferris Buelier's Day Off taught boys to rebel H The Screening Room against their moneyed, sports-car-driving, fancy- X by Dean Sluyter WORST WASTE OF TALENT: Robin Williams, restaurant-frequenting fathers by getting a pocketful m Peter O'Toole, and several good comedians in Club of money, borrowing a sports car, and weaseling H UP FROM THE DEPTHS: BESTS & Paradise—which left them wandering aimlessly on a their way into fancy restaurants. 2 WORSTS OF 1986 Caribbean beach, looking for something funny to do. 53 In 1985 we said films couldn't get worse: thank God WORST WEEPATHON: Another close call. > we were right. Eighty-six brought the inevitable se- Violets Are Blue was a heavy contender, with Sissy quels, teenpix, and slickly marketed packages, but It MOST SURPRISING FLOP: Heartburn Jack Spacek and Kevin Kline as blubbering lovers > also brought a reasonable batch of satisfying, well- Nicholson, Meryl Streep, and a good, gossipy story separated by marriage and career. But the coveted made, grown-up movies. For honorable and about marriage and adultery among the semi-rich Golden Handkerchief goes to Best Friends—Mary dishonorable service above and below the call of art and semi-famous. Also Jumpin' Jack Flash, which Tyler Moore as a widowed housewife-turned- and money, here are the second annual Screening starred red-hot Whoopi Goldberg and was funnier exercise-instructor who discovers that her husband Room Awards. than any of the Chevy Chase or Rodney Dangerfield impregnated her best friend before croaking. comedies. BEST CASTING: Jon Voight, in a stupendous come-back as an escaped convict in Runaway Train. WORST LOW—BUDGET TEEN EXPLOITA- OLD MASTERS: Directors Akira Kurosawa, Runner-up: Jeff Goldblum, whose gradual transfor- TION: A crowded field, as usual, but the honors go to Federico Fellini, and Woody Allen blessed us with mation from scientist to insect in The Fly was a Modern Girls. All the standard tired routines were Ran, Ginger and Fred, and Hannah and Her Sisters. tragicomic tour de force. Second runner-up: Sean there—Romancing the Rock Star, Transforming the We must have been very, very good to deserve such Connery, whose medieval detective-monk brought Geek to Mr. Cool, Everybody Into the Water With gifts. genial warmth and regal dignity to The Name of the Their Clothes On, and even, when things got Rose. NEW WAVERS: Meanwhile, the screen's next, desperate. Food Fight. Add blatant MTV plugs and strange directions were being carved out by such vi- WORST CASTING: Robert Redford as a British made-in-someone's-garage technical incompetence: gentleman-sportsman in Out of Africa— probably sionaries as David Lynch (Blue Velvet—incidentally the result is strictly by, about, and for the brain- the year's best film), David Cronenberg (The Fly), the most embarrassing, ludicrously misconceived damaged. performance since Brando played a Japanese Terry Gilliam (Brazil), Alex Cox (Sid & Nancy), houseboy in Teahouse of the August Moon. Jonathan Demme (Something Wild), and David WORST HIGH —BUDGET TEEN EX- Byrne (True Stories), Box office support, while BEST BAD GUY: Dennis Hopper in Blue Velvet. PLOITAION: Producer-director-writer John Hopper's a weird individual; he's been through a lot uneven, was strong enough that most of these guys Hughes gave us two visions of adolescent spiritual will be on the loose in *87. We could be in for some since Easy Rider, most of it highly damaging to his yearning—pink for girls and green for boys. Pretty in nice surprises. central nervous system. Here he called upon all the Pink showed that, despite the unspeakable horror of strangest spaces he's inhabited to make a small-town being ostracized because your clothes are too hip, a hood absolutely terrifying—a psychedelic nightmare girl can be rescued if Prince Preppy asks her to the Copyright 1986 Dean Sluyter puVe ©my

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