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THE HERALD Wednesday February 21 1990Page Stanley Iris is a bluecollar romance By Robert In Movie Theaters STANLEY IRIS You want to root for a movie like this Based on the novel Union Street by Pat Barker it a bluecollar romance about literacy the story of Iris a recently widowed bakery worker Jane Fonda who teaches a fellow employee Stanley Robert DeNiro how to read As the movie portrays the shame and fear of a grown man who can t write a check or even figure out which bus to take it points to the power of words our lives In an age when fewer and fewer people read more than a magazine or two the message is vital If only the movie were more vital Despite a good cast and talented pie behind the scenes the film is ane and somewhat patronizing Hollywood liberals taking on the workingclass The movieis directed by Martin whose social lem films have included goodies like Sounder Norma Rae and Hud However his recent film Nuts was tired and that worn out quality continues in Staftley Ins Ritt and his collaborators have writ ten a simplistic sentimental screenplay and Fonda together for the first time have the thankless task of trying to play Ordinary Working Peo ple They do it by dimming their nor mal power as actors In case we don get just how ordinary they really are the script italicizes it I d take a new green Chevy if I could make the pay is how the desire or nicer things gets expressed Or as Ins says I only have two sweaters DeNiro fares better than Fonda His Stanley has a touching residual boyishness that seems to be the result of his illiteracy However again tain things don ring true Ins discov that Stanley can read when she asks him to hand her a bottle of since he can read the labels he doesn know the difference between Tylenol and SineAid Surely in years Stanley would have at least learned to identify the package design Forget the ease with which Stanley VIDEO PLUS Wait of Gorglown Fro Marital BRING HOME A STAR THISWEEK- Tho Package One Man Out Murder By Night American Boyfriend Howling V The Re Birth See You In The Morning St Units Georgetown Ontario DAILY LUNCH SPECIALS For Under 400 Across From GO 37 King St Georgetown finally learns to read Forget the white picket fence that ostentatiously frames Iris workingclass house But how can you forget the drama These characters are too denatured for that Holy smokes Iris worst habit is drinking coffee GRADE STELLA PG Back in 1937 the late Stanwyck had one of her best roles as Stella Dallas the brassy self sacrificing mother based on the lead character in Olive book Now Midler triesthe role in an updated version for Disney The moviemakers must have thought you could take a story from one era and willy adapt it to an other After all single mothers are still poor and struggling like Stella But it s not that simple The story upon specific attitudes about class illegitimacy sex and femininity that have changed drastically since IRIS KING Jane Fonda falls in love with Stanley Cox Robert an illiterate blue collar worker in Stanley Iris Chilled Oil Refrigerating vegetable oil can turn the liquid cloudy SUPER MARIO COMING MARCH 1 Reg 99 PRE ORDER PRICE Only 75 Available NEW TITLES CLASH OF DEMONHUD A BOY AND HIS BLOB TOP GUN II RIVER CITY RANSOM NINTENDO NEWS CALL IN YOUR HIGH SCORES ANDREA Rampage Completed SCOTT TARZWELL Dodge Ball Completed JEFF MOORE Super Mario Completed CHRIS Ice Hockey Trade In Your Old Gomes For New And Pay 10 00 WEEKEND SPECIAL RENT 3 GAMES FOR KEEP DAYS COUNTRY LANE Line River Across From Geo Golf Club 8772254 the This time the drama is set in the late 60s Barmaid Stella spurns the marriage proposal of a doctor Collins who has gotten her nant Pride and independence color Stella s refusal with the story pivot on how she has to raise a daughter Trim alone Stella however seems to love this doctor and he seems to be good man So her refusal of him reads as an obligatory plot development not a credible outgrowth of the drama Throughout Stella does improbable things culminating in giving away her college age daughter to the girl father and his wealthy new wife Mar Mason Why does Stella need to give up a grown girl So that the movie can re produce the famous scene when she peers in the window of a shiny restaurant sobbing away as her baby is married to a handsome well- heeled WASP Stella provides a synthetic corn ball view of selfdenying motherhood Still Midler is worth seeing in any thing GRADE New Home Video LICENCE TO KILL 13 CBSFox If you re a diehard James Bond fan this movie starring Timothy will probably be re quired viewing On the other hand it may offend you because it s one of the lesser Bonds an attempt to fit the suave into the vengeful thai era GRADE Film grading excellent good fair poor 1980 ENTERPRISE GEORGETOWN CINEMAS 235 GUELPH STREET 8731999 CINEMA 1 NOW PLAYING Evenings at I Sat Sun Matinee at 2 CINEMA 2 LAST DAYS evenings at 91 6th SMASH WEEK Sat Sun Matinee at 00 pm NOW PLAYING CINEMA 3 KIRST1E ALLEY Evenings at 00 9 1 p m pin un Matinee at 2 p m TUESDAYS PASSWORD This Weeks Pass THURSDAYS MOVIES ARE HARD TO KILL