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Page THE HERALD OUTLOOK Saturday January 23 1989 Dafoe are Gmen in new film By Robert In Movie Theaters MISSISSIPPI BURNING most every year theres a firstrate movie that wins great ac claim because it tackles a worth subject Gandhi apartheid etc year its director Alan Parkers classylooking but manipulative treatment of the 1964 murder of three civilrights workers by the Ku Klui Klan in Mississippi In Parkers hands the story becomes a typically contrived detective tale with whites as heroes Those heroes are FBI men Gene Hackman and con trasting types whose differing ap proaches to the murders form the movies real kernel of drama Theirs is a variation on the standard buddy- movie conflict graced by Hackmans excellent performance as a tough old Southern turd and marred by Dafoes lackluster rendition of a slick new- generation agent To play this bland- surface character the daring Dafoe mistakenly dims his natural powers as an actor hiding behind un attractive glasses One of the movies main conceits is the image of burning of a small com munity being literally incinerated by racial conflict But characteristic of Parkers penchant for overstatement and sensationalism we see more black churches being burned than even a city the size of Atlanta would have And the way and Da solve the case puts them on the level of nopussyfootingaround Ram- bos when the beauty of the civil rights movement was how it tran scended such tactics In between clues ques tions the town beautician Frances one of those plain goodhearted movie wives who are al ways married to brutes and who are put in movies this to ag ing stars in this case a love interest GRADE W DANGEROUS LIAISONS The bold English director Stephen helmed this creamy crafty adapta tion of Christopher Hamptons Broad way play itself an adaptation of Choderlos de scandalous novel about two vengeful aristocrats former lovers who spin webs of sexu intrigue in which they eventually become ensnared This is the most brittle and knowing kind of costume drama the logue all nasty epigrams the atti tudes the height ofarchness The ma terial is sufficiently interesting for one to overlook a central piece of mis casting John who is too modern edgy and not sophisticated enough to be convincing as the rakish male lead Glenn Close costars doing a period version of her sexy witch from Fatal Attraction Close has wonderful mo menta including the long eerie clos ing shot But is it ungrateful to sug gest that the of years ago would have been even better Making her fourth movie appear ance of the year Michelle fer is very good as the pure beauty whom Malkovich All in all this is a quietly compelling and erotic black comedy one that doesnt however quite validate its tragic and bloody conclusion GRADE New Home Video YOUNG GUNS Vestron Heres the first Brat Pack western a minor event in cinematic history though a surprising draw at the box office Partly based on the life of William Billy the Kid Bonney and on the real life Lincoln 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