‘for adults

North *«% (Columbia) Rated
| Mature (at the Park & Tilford,
R Granville, Coquitiam, Station
Square and Clearbrook cinemas)

ESIDES BEING a direc-

tion, North is the unlike-

ly name for an 11-year-
gy old boy who is appreciated
¥ by everyone, except his own
f parents (Seinfeld’s Jason
Alexander and Julia Louis-
Dreyfus). Taking a tip from
Drew Barrymore's character
in Itveconcilable Differences,
| North (Elijah Wood) divorces
his neglectful mom and pop.

However, the judge (Alan
Arkin) rules that the boy must be
in the arms of a new set of parents
(or his originals) in two months’
tine or he'll be sent off to an
arphanage.

In: several vignettes, North
globetrots from one eager, if
unsuitable, family to another,
while a wise-cracking guardian
angel (Bruce Willis) poos up in
A various guises, including a fluffy

pink bunny suit. This allows a lot
of Reiner’s friends to put in
appearances. Dan Ackroyd and
Reba McEntire as Ma and Pa Tex

Tim Bell
FILM REVIEW

rusile up a musical number while
Graham Greene and Kathy Bates
play Eskimos who dispatch their
aging father (Abe Vigoda) to an ice
flow because he’s too old to con-
tribute to their snowy suburb.
Meanwhile, North becomes a
cause célébre to kids everywhere,
a Situation that his “friend”
Winchell (Matthew McCurley) and
(who else?) his lawyer (Jon Lovitz)
exploit for power gains. .
Althcugh passably acted and
well photographed, North is too
silly and patently cartoonish to
amuse adults. Besides the stereo-
types, there is a disturbing amount
of violence as an assassin chases
North. Numerous references to
dead kids makes me wonder what
message they're trying to get
across. Are kids neurotic about

leads nowhere
or children

death or is this obsession one of
those shared childhood common-
alities like dinosaurs or mumps?

On the positive side, at 85 min-
utes, North is short. Unfortunately,
il is not short enough.

It Could Happen to You *% (Tri-
Star) Rated Mature (at Cineplex
Gdeon cinemas)

The original catchy title for this
romaritic comedy, Cop Tips
Waitress 2 Million Dollars,
revealed most of the plct, so they
dropped it and renamed it some-
thing instantly forgettable.

Whatever success the film has
is thanks to Nicolas Cage as cop -
Charlie Lang and Bridget Fonda as
waitress Yvonne Biasi. They have
a warm and sincere chemistry. On
the other hand, Rosie Perez as
Charlie’s wife Muriel reminds me
of Hervé Villechaize. | couldn't
understand him either.

Jane Anderson's script lifts ele-
ments from Frank Capra’s classics,
notably Mr. Deeds Goes to Town,
to recapture what critics affection-
ately called Capra-corn. But she’s
no Capra. It Could Happen to You
should happen to someone else,

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Cineplex Odeon 687-1515
Park Royal a 926-6699

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plowing through the servings.

The meats were pleasantly
grilled but overly spiced with salt
and oregano.

Might | humbly suggest to
Hristos and ali other Greek
restaurants to offer an optional
Greek Entree Light that would
include the main meat serving
with smatler portions of rice and
potato or simply a smaller por-
tion of one or the other?

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chatlenge to eat and cut the price
of the dish to the more appetiz-
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far better than the main entrée
dish. It included a good selection
of spanakopita, kalamari, doi-
mades, homous, tzatziki and pita
that provided good dollar value.
The restaurant’s interior decor
is traditional Mediterranean blue
and white. Dozens of potted
plants hang from Hristos’ ceiling.
Spirited bazouki music fills
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offered little of the warm and cel-
ebratory Greek atmosphere that
makes so many Greek restaurants
infectiously appealing.

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the curse of 1301 Lonsdale it will
be Greek, but thus far Hristos
offers little hope for overcoming
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