Siskel & Ebert: 3-6-93

Note: Seems like a weekend of stereotyping theme films.

Gene Siskel & Roger Ebert reviews "Amos & Andrew" (While it's not an essentially a remake of "Amos & Andy" on any grounds. Instead, it's a dark wacky comedy about false racial suspensions gone wrong when a playwright writer stays at a remote home and the neighborhood couple mistakenly thinks he's a burglar and the cops offers a criminal to be set free if he does the operation which he helps him. Starring: Nicolas Cage, Samuel L. Jackson (Before they collab in "Kiss of Death" two years later.), Dabney Coleman, Brad Dourif, Michael Lerner and Margaret Colin. Written and Directed By: E. Max Frye.); "Swing Kids" (A drama about a group of young teenagers whose loves for jazz music and swingers are confronted in a strong obedience movement set in Nazi Germany. Starring: Robert Sean Leonard, Christian Bale, Frank Whaley, Noah Wyle and Kenneth Branagh. Directed By: Thomas Carter.); "Shadow of the Wolf" (An Arctic Action-Adventure about a young Inuit becomes a warrior and banished from his shaman father until he kills a trader, pursuits by the police on the frozen tundra. Starring: Lou Diamond Phillips, Toshirô Mifune, Jennifer Tilly and Donald Sutherland. Directed By: Jacques Dorfmann and Pierre Magny.); "Mac" (A Joyous and Powerfut Film from John Turturro in his directorial debut and stars about strong and struggling brothers who got into the construction business as working carpenters leading to obsession and tough relationship.) and "Nothing But a Man" (A theatrical re-release of a 1964 film on an African-American railroad man who tries to maintain his dignity and start a new life in a small town. Co-Written, Co-Produced and Directed By: Michael Roemer along with Robert M. Young.)

"Video Pick of the Week": A Tribute to Lillian Gish (1893 – 1993), Ebert's selections are "The Birth of a Nation", "Orphans of the Storm" and "The Whales of August". And a recap of Today's program.

Recorded on KATU ABC 2 in Portland, Oregon with Commercials intact.