Pack up your troubles and head to the movies
Pack up your troubles and head to the movies
JAKARTA (JP): The charmed world of the movies, always safe
refuge from our troubles, may be your ticket this weekend to
brief escape from unrelenting gloom on the sliding rupiah.
Red Corner. Cast: Richard Gere, Bai Ling, Bradley Whitford.
Director: John Avnet.
Continuing on from his successful courtroom thriller Primal
Fear, Richard Gere is Jack Moore, a brilliant attorney framed for
murder while representing a large entertainment business
scheduled to close the first satellite communications deal with
the Chinese government.
Deserted by his business associates, Jack's hope to elude the
death penalty in a foreign land, notable for a completely
different judicial system from his own, lies in the hands of a
court-appointed defense attorney, Shen Yuelin (Bai Ling).
Together they bridge cultural differences and unearth a
conspiracy at the highest levels of the government.
Excess Baggage. Cast: Alicia Silverstone, Benicio Del Toro,
Christopher Walken. Director: Marco Brambilla.
After failing to get her father's attention despite several
self-destructive acts, Emily (Silverstone) fakes her own
kidnapping by locking herself inside the trunk of her BMW and
demanding a ransom.
Instead, she is thrown together with an international car
thief, Vincent Roche (Del Toro), when he steals the car.
The crook is none too happy when Emily sets fire to the
warehouse where he stores his booty.
She's So Lovely. Cast: Sean Penn, Robin Wright Penn, John
Travolta. Director: Nick Cassavetes.
Insight into the gentler side of Penn, whose violent exploits
were weekly tabloid fare during his union with Madonna, promises
to be interesting, especially as Wright Penn is his new wife.
Maureen (Wright Penn in a critically acclaimed turn) finally
has to kiss goodbye the drunken and crazy Eddie (Penn) behind
bars and set off to start a new life.
Ten years later, Maureen is happily remarried with three
daughters, two from her new husband (Travolta). But Eddie is
already out on the streets, and he wants Maureen back. (ste)