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Show hopes for it, and it finished fourth last weekend in its nationwide opening. On a scale of 1 to 10, with 10 being the highest, I'd give it a 7. 0 'Someone to Watch Over Me' OjJ combines suspense, real life V) ( far . M ; . m i 'Hi I By TOM HARALDSEN j The producers of Columbia Picture's new release, "Someone to Watch Over Me," were undoubtedly un-doubtedly trying to tell the story of a contemporary policeman, caught between his personal feelings feel-ings and his professional duties while protecting a witness. They have succeeded in that regard. But this Ridley Scott film is a commentary on something much more, something as prevalent in society today as the story itself the conflict that many married men, and women, feel when they start to fall in love with someone else. Before you IabeJ this film unholy, unho-ly, you must understand that it's the story of a police detective and his wife, one of the most volatile combinations of marriages around today. Tom Berenger portrays por-trays Mike Keegan, a newly-promoted newly-promoted detective from Queens whose marriage is shattered when he is assigned to protect an elegant ele-gant Upper East Side witness to a homicide. His wife, played by relative re-lative newcomer Lorraine Brac-co, Brac-co, breaks the stereotype usually associated with wives of police officers. She is tough, street-smart street-smart and not unaware of the dangers dan-gers her husband faces daily. The beautiful witness is Mimi Rogers, who broke in with roles in "Gung Ho" and "Street Smart," ironically enough. She witnesses a murder of a friend during a socialite party, then narrowly escapes the assailant herself. He spends much of the film hunting her down, particularly after he is released following filing of charges on him for murder. Berenger becomes one of three officers who protect Rogers on rotating shifts. Naturally, he gets the night shift, putting himself in a position of vulnerability with the elegant Rogers. The studio bills this film as a "stylish romantic thriller," and it indeed has all those elements. There is plenty of suspense, particularly parti-cularly as the film draws to a close. And true to character, after this film asks its leads "just how important is your marriage," it also forces its stars, and the audience audi-ence for that matter, to make a choice. Does Berenger stay with the plain-Jane Bracco, or does he chuck his marriage and his relationship re-lationship with his son for a shot at the beautiful Rogers? Filmed on location in New York last December and January, I found this film very entertaining. It has moments of humor as well, particularly a breakfast scene between be-tween Berenger, Bracco and their son. But the emphasis here is on romance, that euphoric-type feeling feel-ing that two people share in the beginning of a relationship that often takes them further than they really want to go. This film is rated "R" for some partial nudity and a lot of profanity. profan-ity. Columbia Pictures has high |