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Show Page C2 Wednesday, December 24, 1986 Park Record 'Crimes of the Heart' is a quirky all-star valentine -ii in i i i '?" " i mtiyr. .,uvi Keel World by Robin Mocnch Crimes of the Heart The three eccentric MaGrath sisters reunite in the home of their youth in a small Mississippi town in this comedy with a celestial cast. Babe (Sissy Spacek) has just shot her wealthy husband in the stomach because she doesn't like his looks. Lenny (Diane Keaton) is gathering dust as a shy spinster because she has "this shrunken ovary." And Meg (Jessica Lange), the only sister to leave home to pursue a career, operates from a base of undefeated failure as a singer. All three sisters are descended from a fine family tradition of tragic goofiness that got its start when their mother hung herself and the family cat in the cellar. Now her daughters battle the vagaries of life with the same outrageous independence. in-dependence. Their reunion is full of wild swings into hysteria and comic depression as they review their lives in the tur-reted tur-reted old house that is itself an oddball odd-ball character, as weird and sturdy as its inmates. Sam Shepard has a small distinctive distinc-tive role as Doc Porter, the smalltown small-town man Meg left behind. (The moonlit scene by a country lake where Meg and Doc dance and remember is a fragile and pretty moment.) And Tess Harper plays the sisters' nosy cousin, Chick, with blazing obnoxiousness. The scene where she pulls on her pantyhose is a great flight of physical comedy. ii M fi si fi FRENCH CONTINENTAL CUISINE - 9 Wishes You A Merry Christmas and invites you to enjoy the fine dining you have come to expect! Great new items plus your favorites 442 Main Street Open 6 p.m. - 1 0 p.m. Nightly Downstairs 649-6644 Corkage and Set-Ups Available The screenplay was adapted by Beth Henley from her Pulitzer Prize-winning play and directed by Bruce Beresford, known for a great hit "Breaker Morant" and an awful flop, "King David." And like Beresford himself, this movie seems to hold in a single vessel the capacity to be great or godawful, depending on the viewer's inclination to believe these fantastic Southern characters. Spacek, Lange and Keaton all of them Academy Award winners-each winners-each contribute generously to the ensemble family portrait. But the women they portray are so determinedly deter-minedly zany and overblown they come off as kind of idiot savants of small-town society. Babe in particular is a character with such bizarre routines like mixing Coke and peanuts and swilling swill-ing the concoction out of the bottle or tooting her sax in her majorette costume in the dark strains your credulity at the same time she entertains enter-tains you with her oddity. The women in "Arsenic and Old Lace" were also weird, but because their flighty ways were played f L A V r- t'fT.'.V- Jessica Lange, left, Sissy Spacek and Diane Keaton are the MaGrath sisters in the Heart." Crimes of down, you believed them. With "Crimes of the Heart" the exotic strangeness of the characters takes a couple of steps too far. You're charmed, but not taken in. m m A snooze Double feature material Icll Definitely ffl worthwhile ml 2&J Recommended A classic The Morning After Alex Sternbergen (Jane Fonda) is an alcoholic, out-of-work actress set up as a murderer and Turner Kendall Ken-dall (Jeff Bridges) is a former cop who helps her in this mysterylove story. Alex wakes up one morning in bed with a corpse and a hangover. She can't remember what happened the NOW PLAYING At the Holiday Village Cinemas: fcsJ The Three Amigos The Golden Child Heartbreak Ridge (unrated) The Nutcracker (unrated) J X ( 4 K 123 Vj 1 J IF YOU THINK PARK CITY DESERVES A EUROPEAN RETREATSALON, C'ESTLAVIE! VIE brings the first total European Retreat Salon to Park City, offering a complete system devoted to hair, skin, muscles, feet, hands and nails. We provide the following services: HAIR Cutting $18-25 Coloring $20-45 Perms $40 & up NAILS Sculptured - Holiday Special Fill $15 Full Set $35 Manicure $12 FACIALS Hydrodermic, Deep Cleansing, Hydrating. 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It's a big, glamorous Hollywood idea of a movieland murder tale, with no subtlety, not much attention paid to real police procedures, and a frothy romance with a hackneyed happy ending in a hospital room. Jeff Bridges' innocent Turner is a broad counterpoint to Fonda's slightly trashy, been-around blonde, and the disparity in their ages doesn't make it easier to believe these two people could get together. Fonda plays the tawdry drunk with convincing tackiness, but it's hard to believe a dye Job and a good man can cure Alex's alcoholism and change her life. Bridges makes a nice, earthy, staight-arrow leading man who's more cuddly than heroic. Sidney Lumet, who has directed pictures as diverse as "Twelve Angry Men" and last year's glittery "Power," directed "The Morning After" from a screenplay by James Hicks. Heber theater installs advanced sound system The opening of "Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home" at the Avon Theater last week was a special occasion for the small movie house in Heber City. According to theater manager Steve Zimmerman, the holiday hit marked the introduction of the theater's new sound processing system. As a rule smaller theaters are not able to book hit films so quickly after their release, said Zimmerman. But the new digital Surround sound-processing sound-processing system is able to reproduce spatial effects as faithfully faithful-ly as larger Dolby-equipped 70 mm theaters, he said. The new system improves the reproduction of low frequencies and the localization of Dolby Surround-encoded Surround-encoded special effects, he said. The DSM-3602, as the new system is called, is the most advanced Dolby Surround processor available, he said. The electronic sound decoder was developed for the theater by Heber City resident Jim Fosgate of Fosgate Research Inc. Fosgate's company builds home decoders to be used with stereo and hi-fi systems. Fosgate adapted his system for use in the Avon, said Zimmerman. Zim-merman. Most movie sound tracks use four channels, Zimmerman explained. The seven-channel decoder can place sound so that it seems to come from left or right and front or rear of the screen, he said. Fosgate worked on the new product pro-duct for a year, maintaining a research and development room in the theater for experimentation and installing the DSM-3602 as a research tool. DSM stands for digital space matrix. Digital processing technology developed by Fosgate was used in the system. The movie that brings the original "Star Trek" crew back in time to 1986 San Francisco has grossed $40 million to date around the country and will be oh the Avon bill for several more weeks, said Zimmerman. Zimmer-man. The sound system will be a permanent fixture. The Avon Theater is at 94 South Main St. in Heber City, about 20 miles south of Park City on U.S. Highway 40. For more information, call the Avon Theater at 654-1181. 0 Don R. Reigelsterger lUmd Up Mcdilui, Daryl James Make my Christmas, Give me a call (213) 457-2574 IT'S WORTH THE DRIVE inc fAlt Ur intyim v .2 MATINFFS 9k m FUTURE LIES f WH DAILY (EX. SUN.) hidden in nv f rrz&x AT 2 P.M rur n a cr ins TMJI, 9 SOMEWHERE ON EARTH... 1986.x FOSGATE ADDS DIGITAL TECHNOLOGY ' -J I Hfc VOYAG6 HOME fr at fi in-Rin (EX. SUN.) NO PASSES OR DISCOUNTS iblilMliUil MATINEES DAILY (EX. SUN.) AT 1 P.M. STEVEN SPIELBERG Presents AYNt AVmram ! VV W' SI I'AKA Ii: ADMISSIONS! ..; . NIGHTLY AT 6:45 -"wlPG,ll SflW ' JIM rv jn mww tittiM imiu Usf PAUL HOGAN DUNDEE MA I INI I . I)AII V (I X, SUN J a 1 ;t I' M NIGHTLY AT 8:45 |