![]() ![]() An amusing tear-jerker ruined (or arguably enhanced) by the excessive amount of sports action, with a motif revisited in the likes of Anthony Minghella’s Truly, Madly, Deeply (1990).ģ: Big (Penny Marshall, 1988) Romantically thwarted 12 year-old David Moscow asks a fairground fortune-telling machine to make him an adult. Worse yet, Cannon isn’t done trying to get rid of hubby. Beatty is therefore inserted into the dying body of a millionaire industrialist murdered by his wife (Dyan Cannon), and proceeds to fall in love with tree-hugging militant campaigner Julie Christie, who hates him. Cosmic overseer James Mason wants to rectify the mistake, but the body has already been cremated. Based only in title on the 1943 Don Ameche original, Heaven tells the story of a quarterback prematurely taken from his body by an interfering angel (Buck Henry) during a road accident. Shelley Duvall and Nicholson are superb, but in this prosaic treatment of a couple split by supernatural forces, you would have been calling social services in the first reel.Ĥ: Heaven Can Wait (Warren Beatty, 1978) Warren Beatty stars in a hit film he also directed. If they weren’t wintering as caretakers in a haunted motel where the ghostly inhabitants want them all dead. The book elaborates far more effectively a picture of a fractured couple riven by alcoholism with a real shot at repairing their marriage and love for each other. ![]() Anyone who’s seen Shrek will also find its central curse rather familiar.ĥ: The Shining (Stanley Kubrick, 1980) A common complaint of Kubrick’s admittedly stunning vision of madness in seclusion is that Jack Torrance (Jack Nicholson) is clearly crazy from frame one. Anyone who has ever dated a night-shift worker (or – trust me – a doctor) is bound to sympathise with this. The final scene with the lovers and Woods is genuinely touching.ħ: Ladyhawke (Richard Donner, 1985) In Donner’s tale of bewitchment, lovers Rutger Hauer and Michelle Pfeiffer must live out their lives together under the aegis of an evil bishop’s curse, where Hauer is transformed into a wolf by day and Pfeiffer a hawk by night. But Lee’s no rapacious bite-em-and-leave-em type, and the pair struggle to help our heroes before heading off into (or rather away from) the sunset. Remake is coming to cinemas in January.Ĩ: John Carpenter’s Vampires (1998) Daniel Baldwin and Twin Peaks‘ Sheryl Lee are the couple heading from antagonism into passion as the vampire-infected Lee beguiles Baldwin into letting her out of the rather S&M set-up that’s stopping her biting his neck (his boss, vampire-hunter James Woods, needs Lee semi-alive to help track down the head vamp). ![]() But the Cenobites are hot on his trail, and it’s questionable if he’ll get a full body before they get their fish-hooks into him. When a drop of blood partially regenerates his body, frank enlists his sister-in-law (Clare Higgins) – with whom he had recently cuckolded his brother, and who secretly loves him – to obtain more flesh for his flayed form. 9: Hellraiser (Clive Barker, 1987) Frank Cotton (Sean Chapman) meddles with the wrong puzzle-box in Morocco and ends up torn to pieces by Cenobites, the ghastly demonic police force of hell itself. ![]()
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