Always doesn’t always work
BUT REMAKE HAS ITS HOT SPOTS

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A Guy Named Joe, a Second World War fantasy with

Spencer Tracy. This remake has been updated so that
the only war reference is the B-52s used by forest fire
fighters Pete Sandich (Richard Dreyfuss) and Al Yackey

(john Goodman).

Pete’s a hotshot pilot who takes
all his risks flying the water
bombers. When it comes to emo-
tions, air traffic controller Dorinda
Durston (Holly Hunter) can’t
squeeze a single “I love you”’ out
of him. Being airborne is his true
passion. When she tells him her
premonition that his number is up,
Pete reluctantly agrees to settle
down to a sedate life in Flat Rock,
Colorado. Then the phone rings.

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One last blaze needs dousing.

Of course, the woman is always
right and Pete earns his heavenly
wings while saving his buddy. The
next thing he knows, he’s walking
through a scorched forest whistl-
ing the theme to Leave it to
Beaver. His guardian angel, Hap
(Audrey Hepburn), tells him he
has one more mission. He is to
return to earth and help someone
else become a pilot.

TIM
BELL

film review

What she doesn’t tell him is that
his subject, Ted Baker (Brad
Johnson), has a keen interest in
Dorinda. “That's my girl, pal,’
he warns Ted, but to everyone,
except the audience, Pete’s only a
small voice in their minds.

The film has several hurdles,
especially in the first half hour. A
choppy series of episodes meant
to sketch out the characters’ rela-
tionships offers little background

to their histories and plenty of ap-
gravation.

Romance ts limited to Pete sur-
prising Dorinda at a dance with a
gift of ‘girl clothes’ while the
band plays their song, Smoke Gets
in Your Eyes. ffi thet wasn’t
enough, the local lugs (her words,
not mine) stampede to wash their
sooty hands so they can dance
with the now beautiiully attired
Dorinda.

After Pete dies, things improve.
Their romance takes on poignancy
as an invisible Pete confesses his
love to the grieving Dorinda or
when he aches with jealousy over
his flesh-and-blood rival. Hunter
and Dreyfuss are natin the same
league as Tracy and Hepburn, but
there’s a touching scene where
they slow dance together, al-
though she thinks she’s alone.

The exciting action scenes are
flawlessly executed throughout,
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31 - Wednesday, January 10, 1990 - North Shure News

RICHARD Dreyfuss “comes back
to haunt his former girlfriend in
Always.

real-life fire footage with the ac-
tors, If only that kind of attention
had been paid to the script.

As it is, Always works — some-
times.

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