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Show Park Record Thursday, October 5, 1989 Page C5 An underwater edge-of-your-seat suspense film by SUSAN DAVIS Record contributing writer "The Abyss": It has hardware, hard-ware, but it's not about hardware. hard-ware. It has action, but it's not about action. It's about people. It is a very positive, hopeful film with a message: that we have to change if we're to survive as a species. It's about contact with a superior force, an ultimate force that has the power to judge us, and this aspect of the film is interrelated in-terrelated with the theme of love and personal sacrifice. In this sit-on-the-edge-of-your-seat adventure, a team of civilian divers working on a prototype pro-totype under-water oil drilling habitat are pressed into reluctant reluc-tant service by the U.S. Navy in a search and rescue effort for a stricken nuclear submarine. This seemingly routine mission mis-sion becomes an unexpected journey which explores the frontiers fron-tiers of human endurance and challenges the love shared by two of the divers. As the events of "The Abyss" unfold, an inexplicable series of circumstances sets one of the divers on an odessey which takes him more than 25,000 feet below the Atlantic Ocean, where he confronts the ultimate mystery in his encounter with a force which can change our world forever. Ed Harris stars as Bud Brigman, the rig foreman (or "toolpusher") on "Deepcore," Benthic Petroleum's prototype manned underwater oil drilling facility, which lies on the ocean floor below the Caribbean. Brigman is a man who possesses a peculiar mixture of intelligence and hard-headedness, hard-headedness, coupled with innate leadership qualities and a laid-back laid-back casualness. However, he also possesses a healthy dose of disreguard for higher authority, which constantly keeps him at odds with Benthic Petroleum's corporate owners and "Deepscore's" project engineer... his scon-to-be ex-wife, Lindsey (Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio). Brigman is provoked when Benthic Petroleum authorizes his rig for a rescue mission he does not believe his nine-man crew of roughnecks are qualified to carry out: the search for the USS Montana, an Ohio CTass SSBN ballistic missile submarine, sub-marine, which has been mysteriously incapacitated at a depth of 2000 feet. The submarine, sub-marine, bereft of power and presumably with all hands lost, has come to rest precariously on a craggy brink within the Cayman Trough... an abyss in the floor of the Atlantic which extends more than two and one-half one-half miles straight down. The only hope the Navy has for reaching the stricken nuclear vessel and determining its fate rests with "Deepcore" and its crew. Transferring down to "Deep-core" "Deep-core" to coordinate the rescue mission is a four-man team of Navy SEALs, supervised by Lt. Coffey (Michael Bichn). Also making the trip down to "Deep-core" "Deep-core" is Lindsey Brigman, whose brusque manner and estrangement from Bud do not endear her to either the "Deep-core" "Deep-core" crew or the SEALs. Forming an uneasy but. necessary alliance, the two contingents con-tingents are thrust into a chain of circumstances which find them all trapped in the black depths of the trench. Here, in this frightening and desolate place, they must confront the mystery of "The Abyss"...a mystery that will ultimately demand de-mand the greatest sacrifice man can make. Cookin' since 1985 Ristorante and Bar More than Pasta!!! Fall into Cisero's Colorful Sizzling Specials Monday is Spaghetti Night $3.95 with salad ez garlic bread-as much as you wane SERVED ALt NIGHT LONG EARLY BIRD SPECIALS 5:30-7 PM Tues-Lasagne or Joe's Vegetarian Casseroie $5.95 Wed-Seafood Night Fresh fish specials weekly $ 7. 95 Thurs-Veal Parmesan $6.95 or Eggplant Parmesan $5.95 Entertainment This Week! Thurs., Fri. SC Sat. Night Oct. 5, 6 SC 7th-DEWEY 7th-DEWEY SC the ROCKETS Sunday & Monday Night-NFL Night-NFL FOOTBALL on Big Screen Sunday Night- JAM SESSION Wed. Night-LOCALS Night-LOCALS JAM NIGHT Private club for the benefit of members 6C their guests 649-5044 (restaurant) 306 Main St. 649-6800 ( bar) |