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The Sandlot * * (20th Century
Fox) Rated M (at the Park &
Tilford, Granville, Coquitlam,
Richport, Clearbrook, Scott 72,
and Station Square cinemas)

PRING HAS sprung.

The grass is riz. |

wonder where the
movie is ... the first basebal:
movie of the season, that is.

Well oil up your gloves. kids
because The Sandlot is now play-
ing. This epicadic comedy follows
the adventure. of pint-sized pitch-
ers and real short shart-stops.

It's mid-june in 1962 (we know
it because of the nostalgic ‘60s
soundtrack) and Scotty Smalls
(Tom Guiry) has just moved into
the neighborhood. It's certainly
not the best time of the year to
make new friends, especially
when the kid is a bit on the geeky
side and knows zip about
baseball.

When Benny — that is Benjamin
Franklin Rodriguez — (Mike Vitan),
the star hitter of the eight-man-
in-need-of-a-ninth-man little
league team, invites Scotty to join
up, it’s the beginning of The

Wonder Years meets Bull Durham —

in a Disney backlot.

Why, there’s even a bit of Cujo
thrown in when “the beast” (“a.
giant gorilla dog-thing that ate one
kid already"’) gets hold of the
prized ball signed by Babe Ruth.

And that’s Basically the plot. The
new kid on the block learns about
friendship, about baseball and
about man’s best friend.

Thankfully, it’s relatively painless
for adults to sit through and the
kids (especially the boys) will have
a great time. There are enough
gross bits to draw youthful hoots,
no girls (well, almost no girls} and
easy-to- identify stock characters
(fat kid, four-eyes) that kids seem
to like so much.

So parents, if you're looking for
an entertaining movie for your .
budding DiMaggios, give The

Tim Bell
FILM REVIEW

Sandlot a tryout.

Reservoir Dogs & * Ye
(Miramax Live Home Video)

Rated R

Boy, you can bet these guys
never played sandiot baseball
when they were kids: (Although
I'm sure they all had a knack for
swinging baseball bats.)

This brutal big-boys-gone-bad
film takes place in modern day
(with a bouncy ‘70s soundtrack)
when a bungled jewel heist
disintegrates into a bloodbath. !n
the aftermath, the criminals are
converging at a warehouse, irying
to regroup, split whatever booty
they escaped with and sniff out the
rat who set them up.

The men, all wearing dark suits,
white shirts, thin dark ties and
sunglasses, !ook like a mab version
of the Blues Brothers. To ensure
anonymity in case one is caught
and tortured for information, each
thug is given a Crayola name {in a
particularly funny scene) —
Harvey Keitel is Mr. White; Tim
Roth, Mr. Orange; Steve Buscemi,
Mr. Pink,

The non-stop foul language and
constant torture are hard to stom- -

ach but first-time director Quentin |

Turatino uses a taut script, terrific
actors and a perverse sense of
humor to make it bearable.

SHOWTIME HOTLINES:

Famous Players ........... 681-4255
Cineplex Odeon .......... 687-1515

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