Word: harrisons
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...movies, these dog days are a time of atonement. Out go the slam-bang gonadal giants of June and July; in come a passel of fellows on their onerous journey toward becoming more sensitive souls. They take their cue from Harrison Ford, the selfish lawyer in Regarding Henry, who gets a shot in the head and suddenly feels so darned . . . human. But the newer films go a step farther. In Doc Hollywood and The Doctor, the ones in need of redemption are good guys...
CINEMA Mike Nichols and Harrison Ford make a born-again weepie...
Regarding Henry, Mike Nichols' effective, infuriating new weepie, works a cunning variation on the born-again theme. It eliminates the middleman, Death, by subjecting Henry Turner (Harrison Ford) to a gunshot wound that erases his memory. Bang!, you're a new man. The old one needed some revision. That Henry was a slick Manhattan lawyer who misused his gifts to ruin innocent men and save venal corporations. Instructed by his chic wife (Annette Bening) to apologize to their 11-year-old daughter (Mikki Allen), Henry instead scolds the dear girl in Latin. The guy barely deserves to live, until...
Ever since George Harrison gathered with Ringo Starr, Eric Clapton, Bob Dylan and Ravi Shankar at Madison Square Garden for the 1971 benefit concert for Bangladesh, philanthropic pop has been a booming business. And in the caring, sharing '90s, a new formula has emerged: the compilation album. Among the best...
...films that might be big this season, you'd need Marty McFly coming back from the future with, say, the Sept. 9 issue of Variety. So let's say The Rocketeer, Disney's no-star action fantasy, will ring the register. And Mike Nichols' Regarding Henry, with Harrison Ford as a lovelorn amnesiac. And Boyz N the Hood, a promising young director's first feature about gang bonding. And -- no, stop! This could take all summer...