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North Shore News

Betsy’s wedding gets favorable reception

Betsy’s Wedding *** 2 (Touchstone) Rated Mature (at the Vancouver
Centre, Varsity, Station Sq., Lougheed Mall and Willowbrock cinemas)

ARNING: This movie is totally unconcerned with
sex, graphic violence or special effects. Just in

time for the summer solstica, too.

Eddie Hopper (Alan Alda) is a
man who sees life’s little problems
as “‘opportunities.’” And on this

fully sleazy role).
His other daughter,
policewoman Connie (Ally

Sheedy) can‘t maintain a relation-
ship (Dad figures it might have
something to do with the gun she
carries) until she meets Stevie Dee
(Anthony LaPaylia). Proving that
opposites attract, the dim (but in-
tensely sincere) mafioso begins to
woo her. While he realizes there
are differences, he’s willing to
compromise. She's half Jewish, so

he politely offi-rs to become half
Jewish too.

Great characeers, Alan Alda’s
bright, witty dialogue, and Bruce
Broughton’s buoyant score make
Betsy’s Wedding well worth an
RSVP.

NORTH SHORE VIEWS
West Van Odeon: Miami Blues,
The Gods Must Be Crazy tl, Bird

on a Wire

Park Royal: Gremlins 2, Dick
Tracy, Total Recall

Park & Tilford: Robocop 2,
Cadillac Man, The Gods Must Be
Crazy ll, Bird on a Wire, Teenage
Mutant Ninje Turtles, Wild Or-
chid, Back to the Future II]

particular day, opportunities
abound. After spending a restless
night wrestling with tigers in his
dreams (and losing), his contrac-
ting job is stonewalled and his
daughter, Betsy (Molly Ringwald)
becomes engaged.

Although strapped for cash, Ed-

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BELL

film review

die ignores her requests for a
small,intimate wedding and, prod-
ded by his tialian bravado, plans
escalate to a canopied extrava-
ganza.

Writer/director Alan Alda maps
out the usual wedding party
nightmares including seating ar-
rangements for too many people,
the happy couple’s cold feet and,
of course, the horrendous expense
that drives him to reluctantly tura
to his mob-connecied brother-in-
law, Oscar (joe Pesci in a wender-

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