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Everyone believes the handsome one’s
the hero - only Bernie knows different

Hero *& & Rated Mature (at the
Park & Tilford, Granville, Station
Square, Richport, Coquitlam,
Scott 72 and Clearbrook cinemas)

EMEMBER THOSE
heart-to-hearts you
had with Dad?

Sure you do ... “Not all, but
most supervisors are crooks,”’
“Keep a low profile,” and
“There’s no truth, just various
layers of bulls--t.”

With golden bon mots like those
to his impressionable young san,
who would believe that small-time
chiseller Bernie Laplante (Dustin
Hoffman) would risk his neck by
entering a burning airplane to
rescue 54 passengers?

Right. No one. Despite the fact
that it’s true. Not that he was the
“Angel of Flight 104” as the

-media have dubbed him.

While he was grumbling and
cruising about in the smoke carry-
ing out TV reporter Gale Gayley
(Geena Davis), he couldn't resist
her purse.

With only a shoe left behind as
evidence, Gale’s unerring nose for
news smells a story.

The hunt is on for someone to
fill the mystery man’s 10-Bs.

A million-dollar offer and bingo,
John Bubher (Andy Garcia) smells
the perfect candidate. A Nam vet,
homeless, handsome and with a
real streak of courage — everyone

‘ wants to believe he’s the hero.
Only Bernie knows different.
David Webb People’s script

Tim Beli
FILM REVIEW

wants to have a refreshing cynical
edge, but can’t quite bring itself to
attack media manipuiation and
image fabrication.

The characters all have a warm
cenire.

Bernie ‘s a two-bit thief and a
questionatie father figure, but
unearths his basic goodness when
a child asks for his help. Sure the
television news honchos, led by
an unbilled Chevy Chase, score
good ratings, but it’s not played up
as manipulative since the
America-wide feel-geod wave has
frequent beneficial side effects.

(Hey, kids come out of comas
with a little pep talk from the fake
“Angel.”’)

Hero features fine perfomances
by Davis and Hoffman, occasional
humor and a promising premise.
But where there should be a hard
centre, there’s just creme feeling.
Hear My Song *& * *& (Para-
mount Home Video) Rated
Mature

Now here are two rogues who
don’t sugarcoat their flaws, but
still we like them.

Shady promotion man Micky

PREP POTEET

&6 Script can't quite
bring itself to attack
media
manipulation. 99

O'Neill (Adrian Dunbar) offers
singer Franc Cinatra to a gullible
{and apparently illiterate) audience
while romancing a woman, Nancy
(Tara Fitzgerald), without actually
admitting ‘I love you.”

But he goes too far when he
books famed Irish tenor Josef
Locke for a triumphant return from
self-imposed exile. The coup elec-
tifies everyone.

Nancy’s mother, who had a
brief affair with Josef prior to his
hasty departure, is almost as anx-
ious to see him again as Her Ma-
jesty’s revenue men are. Only this
Josef Locke turns out to be an im-
poster.

Disgraced, broke and out one
lover, Micky heads for the Emeratd
Isle to track down the real McKoy
and convince him to perform.

Some great Irish scenery, one-
of-a-kind characters and a charm-
ing magic permeates this little film.
The only drawback is the
thoroughly American Ned Beatty
attempting an irish accent and
some unconvincing lip-synching.
But then again, it’s Hear My Song,
not Read My Lips.

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