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st the tribune thursday october 2 1997 p 11 the tribune arts entertainment screen scene stuart green routine action picture saved by inventive script kudos should also go out to director mimi leder er making her motion picture debut a film of this size and scope could easily have gotten away from the novice its happened to bigger and better but leder keeps things focussed and moving at least for the second half although far from a major artistic accomplishment the peacemaker is entertaining albeit occasionally cliched career girls is a deliciously offbeat comedy youve really got to hand it to steven speilberg and his cohorts at dreamworks not only do they launch their studio with a huge action picture the kind that can just as easily sink as soar they chose two unlikely action stars to carry the picture and an untested director to helm it thats chutzpah fortunately for the company the gamble pays off though just barely in the peacemaker george clooney and nicole kidman star as a pair of american military opera tives he a wildchild officer wholl do anything to get the job done including bribing mafia truckers she a straightlaced nuclear physicist who heads up the governments nuclear smuggling division trying to track down a missing shipment of nuclear war heads en route from russia to a dis posal site when they determine that the weapons are in the hands of a par ticularly nasty and corrupt russian general alexander baluev who plans to sell them on the black mar ket for about 200 million each they become concerned the chase takes them from the states to the former soviet union then to austria and back to the states again in a globetrotting adventure of james bondian pro portions they finally track down the cargo only to discover one of the warheads is missing possibly in the hands of a bosnian national terror ist marcel lures on his way to new york for a un meeting the chase begins anew as they pursue the terrorist through the streets o f new york th e peace maker is a fairly routine action picture that owes a great deal of its edge and smarts to michael schiffers crimson tide sprawling inven tive multidimensional script just as the initial incident that sparks the hunt for the warheads is not what it appears to be on the surface things in the peace maker are not always what they seem kidman and clooney who are not exactly household names in the action genre work well with the material helping defuse what could have been a reel bomb vwrr tick tick tick nicole kidman and george clooney are trapped in a race against time as they join forces to find nuclear terrorists who are threatening to ignite the bomb in the new hightech thriller the peacemaker for crackling originality in a more artistic setting career girls is a better bet written and directed by mike leigh the film follows two college friends as they get reacquainted after years apart through a series of flashbacks to their wild youth we learn that the two are remarkably similar although noth ing alike lynda steadman is annie a shy introverted loser who had a skin prob lem that made her especially bashful while katlin cartlidge is hannah an oddball extrovert the two of them are deliciously off beat together as is leighs dark and poignant script throw in a few other strange char acters and you have a wickedlyfunny and wonderfullyfresh film which should further secures leighs status as one of englands best filmmakers ew alimand at fullertons th town crier restaurant pub open for real english breakfast seven days a week featuring their popular pitcher package on tuesdays and thursdays 60ounce pitcher of beer with either wings or nachos for 1350 now serving barbecue pork back ribs and prime rib on weekends live entertain ment every friday night located at 6298 main st please call 6426937 for details the earl of whitchurch located at 6204 main st please call 6408300 for details fullertons new trivia returns with martyn ali mand on thursdays grant fullerton for merly of 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