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Love interest is the

highlight of The Abyss

The Abyss **% (20th Century Fox) Rated 14 yrs. (at the Granville,
Oakridge, Scott, Siation Square, Coquitlam, Clearbrook, and Park &

Tilferd cinemas).

uprooted in the night, changed
their hairstyles and memorized
new life histories.

Parents Annie (Christine Lahti)

THERE’S A mystery lurking in the Cayman Trough and it and Art Gudd Hirsch) are wanted
just swallowed a nuclear submarine. - by

For reasens unknown, the USS
Montana has sunk and lies snagg-
ed halfway down the four-mile
deep abyss. With a major hur-
ricane brewing on the horizon, the
military turns to the crew of an
experimental underwater -oil rig
known as ‘’Deeprore”’ to in-
vestigate.

Rig foreman Bud Brigman (Ed
Harris) reluctantly agrees to help,
but finds that he is now saddled
with his two feast favorite institu-
tions: the military and his mar-
riage.

To oversee the rescue, the rig’s
owners have assigned Deepcure's
designer and Bud's estranged wife,
Lindsey (Mary Elizabeth Mastran-
tonia).

As if things weren’t tense
enough already, the brass has sent
some gung-ho Rambo-ites along
for the ride. Their leader, Lt. Cof-
fee (Michael Biehn), however,
runs amok, waving knives and

.an alien encornter.

TIM. .
BELL

film review

nuclear warheads at anything that
moves, including a curious aquatic
alien race or non-terrestrial in-
telligence (N.T.!.) that’s nosing
around the rig.

You'd think a corroding mar-
triage would pale in comparison to
the threat of a hostile environ-
ment, heavily armed psychos and
In fact, the
love story is the most satisfying
part of this loud, flashy movie. The
other elements are pinched from
Close Encounters and Voyage to
the Bottom of the Sea episodes.

Ten years ago this would have
hit us like a tidal wave, but now
it's just a well-executed, familiar
routine.

Running on Empty *** (Varner
Home Video) Rat

Every few months, for fifteen

years, the Pope family has

Trip proves expensive

From page 23

and talk with him.”
In addition, two members of the
group — Louisa Leung and
Rebecca Gilchrist — won sepa-
rate trophies. Leung for tap dance
for the second year in'a row and
Gilchrist for a jazz solo.

Rhythm and Flash came second
in the | Love Dance preliminaries
in Tacoma, Wash., and first in
Portland Ore. Lee placed second
in Tacoma for her routine entitled
Since When.

Lee, who performs with the
West Vancouver Recreation Cen-
tre’s dance group, started dancing

only three years ago. She says that
years of figure skating made the
transition to dance seem fairly
easy.
“lt wanted to be a figure skater
since 1 was 7," said Lee, “3 took
lessons because | wanted to be a
hockey player like my two older
brothers.’’

Dance turned out to be more
satisfying for the 20-year-old legal
secretary, and performing before

.an audience was especially ap-

pealing.

“The nationals were a fot of
work, but actual competition
wasn’t too stiff — “It sounds kind
of silly, but only two others show-

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the Feds for blowing up a
napalm factory, accidentally inju-
ring a janitor inside. Despite the
loving nature of their family, the
two kids are paying a heavy toll for
their parents’ radical actions in the
early ‘70s.

When their eldest, Danny (River
Phoenix), expresses a desire to at-
tend Julliard and also falls in love,
the nuclear family starts a
meltdown.

Pick this up toe see some fine ac-
ting in a touching drama.

NORTH SHORE VIEWS

West Van Odeon: When Harry
Met Sally, Casualties of War, Eddie
& the Cruisers Il.
Park Royal: Young Einstein, Peter
Pan, Cheetah, Dead Poets Society.
Park & Tilford: Parenthood, The
Abyss, Rude Awakening, Uncle
Buck, Casualties of War,
Harry Met Sally.

for dancers

ed up in my category,” said Lee.

She explained; however, that
the expense may have put some
people off. Airfare alone was
$1,000 and contestants were re-
quired to stay at the top hotel in
Las Vegas. .

Dance lovers can catch Lee per-
forming her winning solo Sept. 10
at the Coho Festival.

st WEEK

When

. ON THE edge of a two-and-half-mile deep trench in the ocean floor,
Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio has an encownter with a non-terrestrial in-
telligence in a scene from the movie The Abyss. .

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