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Show At The Movies: 'Agnes' a mystery, 'Murphy' a delight By SHARON MORREY Murphy's Romance does it. Just when we thought it couldn't be done, Murphy's Romance did it. It makes the grade as a high-quality high-quality meaningful' funny movie without raw language, blatant sex or violence. I give it an A-plus. The movie is romantic, sensitive but totally realistic. It makes you laugh. You feel good coming out. I went in expecting a good movie. James Garner and Sally Field are favorites of mine, but I didn't really expect to be entertained so well. James Garner is Murphy. Sally Field is Emma Moriarty. They are believable in their roles, even though it's a first to see Garner playing an older man. The story is simple and the romance sort of sneaks up on you even though the title tells you it will have something to do with Murphy. The drama is touching without becoming sad and I didn't find any of those places where you say, "That's nice but in real life it would happen this way." If you're in the mood for a good story, some great one-liners and quality acting, go see Murphy's Romance. I just might go see it again. -as" 'X imam By SHARON MOKREY I haven't really made a judgement on "Agnes of God," as to whether it's a good or bad movie. I'm still trying to understand it. To preface, I went to the movie with a little prejudice in my soul because the previews had warned me it would be dealing with the death of a baby and a nun's insanity, i I figured there wasn't any way I would be able to attend this movie and come out anything but depressed. I didn't come out so depressed as confused. Jane Fonda, as always, is enjoyable en-joyable to watch. She's such an actress, she makes any role she takes interesting. I kept wondering why she did a movie, though, with a character that smoked as heavily as Marty did. Is this the Jane Fonda of the workout i book? Agnes, played by Meg Tilly, is really strange, disturbed by events of the past and irrational in the present. I never did completely understand the scope of her illness and how Marty's dead sister Marie tied in with the Marie that visited Agnes ( from the spirit world. , I didn't understand the spon- , taneous bleeding from Ague's palms or what the movie was really trying to say to-all of us. Is it a tragic spoof of sorts of the Virgin Mary story? Is it a bad effort to explain what the directors don't understand or believe? Or is it just a t story that escaped my simple mind? f It's a movie that's easy to watch. ( The characters are well-played and the story moves along without dif- j ficulty. i I think it will probably win awards , for dramatization, screenplay and direction. If you like' Fonda, you'll probably want to see this one. Then maybe you could explain it to me.- |
