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,t *•' M6NPAY, NOVEMBERS 1995 ENTERTAINMENT PAGE 11 PRESS-REPUBLICAN Catholic guilt ribbed in new < \Th. Broth.ri McMuILn\: 27- year-old Edward Burns, a •photogenic cross between 'Richard dere and Ethan Rawke, [became the darling of this year's I Sundance Film Festival with 'this, his first feature which he wrote, directed and stars m. Anyone who, in '1995, can Y make a technically competent, ' entertaining picture on the same) I budget as my favorite 1959 closei \ classic, ''Teenagers From Outer^ Space\ ($20,OQO), automatically < has my respect. 1 I Jiked \The Brothers * McMulley very much, after ex~ > pecting to love it to bits what with the raves Burns has been collecting as \the new Woody Allen.\ \ True, Irish-Catholic guilt becomes comic putty in Burns's hands just as Allen's own Jew- ish-intellectual angst has been in his. But since Allen's incomparable \Annie Hall\ is reportedly the font of Burns's creative drive, I got myself all wound up antici- pating heaven and earth from him. I expected Burns to be hysterical,; arid he wasn't. But dbn't let that keep you froniwhat ; ? s still a funny — and poignarit — film. I;re^mtdend it particularly to any Catholic movie-goers ex- periencing a faith struggle, to any degree, who feel they're ready,'to spell relief with some '^good-natured humor on the mat- ter. Much of \The Brothers MpMulleri\ was made with the sensibilities of that audience in mind. And it would be no.sur- prise to find them a goodly share \ • *\ ills* lit •'.••>.. .jajfflSa-rf&Siwi, J-«' *• jjtHBi^CflMBfWB -Si- -V ft^^^^S • IS «:, tgey ;•;>?•' tionally devoted Molly (Connie Britton) can't keep him from falling prey to the screen's temptress of the year, Ann (Elizabeth McKay), who's Barry's ex-squeeze. And Barry, totally lapsed, is the ^^BBm<^MIw;SfcK£>BWi3^i ; : new nearly 25 years later. But why shoujd I toe? From top to bottom, \The Brothers McMullen\ is daring in its unique look at fraternal fear of commitment to perennially, im- possibly tolerant sisterhood. ed treatment of a. provocative premise: on the eve of the year 2Q0Q, the world is immersed in Virtual-Reality hell,' Hardly, anyone isjust saying \no\ to this new drug of choice. \Strange Days\ was to mark h ^>by|f^ Bono until sc|tfe3|jiin^difficulties precluded his involvement. It's just as wetL He needs to break into movies as historically as he's made music. And this mediocrity hardly fits the bill. ti li adpr|||! ; Au(|r^ir,e^p^ of the If Bur!ns;haiginy4el^i?ictj)f , alj,; eyepj the^t,wo\jld -niayie to ad- mit that, irithis regard, he's broken dt newjpeundt ^fter thefir alpoh'olic, abusive fathers fufteralithiiOiree McMullen bfothers^Lpng Islanders to iafauWi^viratchr their liberated mom's flight back to Ireland and into thearms of a nice guy who's been waiting 35 years fbrher.. ;.. , Jack (Jack M^ilc^hjfjj Batry (Burns) arid Patrick'(Mike ; McGlone): don't p*ei|fid v ,tb have any such sense of Iftality. re- garding their own romantic roots, to say nothing of long-term objectives. • . . In short, all have major female trouble. Patrick, the youngest, allows his rigid adherence to his religion to drive him to the poitit of. neu- rosis because of pre-marital sex with his over-bearing Jewish girlfriend (Jennifer Jdstyh). Each wants the other to con- vert. Jack, the oldest, is an am- bivalent Catholic whose mar- riage to the sweet, uncondi- • p|r;hap|e^:s^|pe|!||Eptial move on Burns's part,;he's cast . hiniself a^ abrilliahtyoung screenwriter whoseshipi has ' corne in, putting the first true love of his life on the back- burner. • ..••'•• 1$M hje dp the riglvt thing? ' ^ga;st!Bur^|^^;ierob ^;ga;st!Bur^|^^s;ierobled, . from famUy and friends is sensa- tional in its roundly allrnatural deUyery, especially thei women. Critic Janet M^^n calls Barry h ^lill^i h the. nipi^^lemiiKlllig^tiein the film, but the ecclesiastically fren- zied/Patrick is ^llyfits serio- comic cehter ot& d^^SgMgpc, fleshing him out, best pf all in the company of the ebullierit, free- spirited Susan (Shari Albert), an old high school pat who wants him bad^^JLEtfcwa^ that trumpeting her catharsis as a '•recovered\ Catholic may quickly drive hip^'yifay ; > Newly pro-choice as well as claiming a vegetarian slant, she's caught eating a hot dog one day by Patrick. And when he asks why, she quips, \only on Fri- days.\ I was initially surprised at Burns having the guts to see to it that \Last Tango in Paris's\ in- famous opening line can still find a place to sound off — twice — ^Strangt Day*\: Coin|ng out of this one, two friends exchanged iffy reactions to writer James Cameron's latest futuristic techno-thriller, directed by his honey, j&athryn Bigeloyfj (f M I dunno,\ I added. \I kinda like .the way it spun off the Rodney King video,\ Or do I? It didn't take long for the realization to.hit me- Within TJHtS context, was that Heavy- handed: or what (where the story's Africah'-Ain0rica^lieroine is pummeled by white L, A. cops)? . Much of .'•Strange Days\ is a showy, preening display, pf Bigelow's contWiniiftfatuation with her own status as the first — aind still only—.wOriian in Hollywood to make a career out of directing macho blood 'n' thunder action fantasies. 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