Siskel & Ebert: 4-18-92

Note: Stitched together with both Don Gorelick and "Andyfilm's" recordings, filling all the missing parts excluding the end credits and commercials intact. But does contain some signal dropout, tracking and tape damage considering how great the video and audio quality are.

Gene Siskel and Roger Ebert reviews "City of Joy" (A touching drama about an resigned American doctor who moves to Calcutta, India to find a new life until an Irish doctor hires him and later helps a poor Indian family and all people from a ruthless gangster. From director, Roland Joffe. Starring: Patrick Swayze, Pauline Collins, Omar Puri and Art Malik.); "Proof" (A unique Romantic Comedy/Drama from Australia about a blind man, his friend and a housekeeper. Directed By: Jocelyn Moorhouse. Starring: Russell Crowe in his earlier role whose somehow not mentioned by both Siskel and Ebert, Hugo Weaving, Geneviève Picot and Heather Mitchell.); "The Babe" (Not a perfect sports bio-pic on the legendary great bambino known as George Herman "Babe" Ruth, a successful baseball player who has it's high and low points but it's a decent film. Directed By: Arthur Hiller. Starring: John Goodman, James Cromwell, Trini Alvarado, Kelly McGillis, Peter Donat and Bruce Boxleitner.); "Deep Cover" (An Incredible and Terrific Crime Drama with Lawrence Fishburne as an undercover cop assigned into the drug corporation with Jeff Goldblum as a lawyer who also a drug dealer. Also stars Charles Martin Smith. Directed By: Bill Duke.) and "The Famine Within" (A remarkable documentary about the deep positive and negative side of being a fashion model and body image.)

Video Pick of the Week: Siskel's pick is "The Natural" (Wonderful Baseball Drama from director, Barry Levinson. Starring: Robert Redford (who passed away recently at age 89); Robert Duvall, Glenn Close and Richard Farnsworth.)

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