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THE HERALD Wednesday June 1991 Page 19 Entertainment Movie Review Only the Lonely flawed but charming By DIAHANN NADEAU Herald Special ONLY THE LONELY Another John CandyJohn Hughes collaboration Only The Lonely gives us a comic situation Candy lives with an overbearing mother and dates a mortician daughter and instead of playing for laughs the movie aims for pathos What is surprising is that quite often it achieves it and not in an annoying fashion Only The Lone ly t as funny as you want it to be but it has a certain charm that overrides its many flaws Candy plays Danny a cop who drives the wagon carrying prisoners dead bodies etc with his partner James Belushi a man whose entire existence revolves around his mother Tied to her by his neurotic visions of her death he is unable to live his own life Mom a still beautiful Maureen 0 Hara is as possessive as the mother law of any woman nightmares and sees nothing wrong in keeping Danny a bachelor After all he only 38 and wasting away to nothing to boot Mom world is thrown in a tur moil when Danny meets Theresa Ally Sheedy a Sicilian oh no the daughter of a mortician and the corpse makeup woman to boot Shy and sheltered Theresa quickly falls for Danny s self depreciating charm What follows is Danny s painful and often funny struggle to leave his mom There are times when the plot seems headed for a big laugh but somehow it is short circuited Some scenes don t work and don add anything to the film the wed ding scene was to me Most of the time though there is a quiet engaging feeling to the romance which helps the movie over the bad humps One of the things that makes the film work despite its rather pathetic script Is the acting Candy 0 Hara and Sheedy are all irresistible Candy is understated and sweet as the con fused Danny torn between the world he wants and the world he s used to is quiet and in tense as Theresa Theresa confrontation with Mom does not ring true to her character Maureen Hara who hasn made a movie in years is marvelous as the tough as nails bigoted mean yet admirable Rose This is not a sympathetic character but one can help Ilk ing Rose despite herself Anthony is thoroughly charming as the Greek neighbor with a crush on her and Jim Belushi is good as Danny s partner Only The Lonely t terrific and it falls a little flat at times but on the whole its good points outweigh the bad and the ending leaves you with a nice feeling rap f A FN life- A J Am m Glen family barbeque Make up art Jenny Barclay left tr to re create on Jenn fer Robertson face what she created on Kara Edwards face standing while on lookers wa ted their turn at the Glen Williams Publ School fam ly held last Monday ght It was a fun n for kids who after eating hamburgers and hot dogs could get their faces pa get a balloon on or watch a mag an perform cks Herald photo by L Boonstoppel Pot 26 SI Georgetown 8779896 Frame Maker 232 Guelph Street Royal Bank Plaza Georgetown 877 6332 All Framed Prims and Posters on sale New Releases bf James Lumbers now in Member ot Professional Picture Framing Association Offering More Than Just Framing GEORGETOWN CINEMAS 235 GUELPH STREET 8731999 LAST 2 DAYS THE BEST JOHN CANDY COMEDY IN YEARS THE CREATORS THAT HOME ALONE HAVE STRUCK COLD ONLY THE A for anyone who had a mother LHHfiJ Evenings at 1 5 NOW PLAYING Kir William Baldwin Scon Glenn Jason High Donald Sutiuland and Di BACKDRAFT Evenings at 7 9 5 m Sat Sun at m NOW PLAYING IfautuVcll Evenings at 7 15 pm 1 Theme Saturday Sunday at 2 00 p i COMING THIS Y KEVIN COSTNER in Prince of Thieves STARTING FRIDAY JUNE 14th Adults Ovar Children Senior Citizens This Weeks Password Sherwood Forest