As such, he’s watched all the TV shows, and knows the lingo. Originally mooted as the sequel to Kindergarten Cop, the film centred on an eight-year old with dreams of being a police officer. And also it’s the last film, to date, movie to be directed by the Fonz himself, Mr. Firstly, it was the last time a Burt Reynolds-headlined movie would top the US box office on its release. Cop And A HalfĬop And A Halfmarked two things. Not terrible, certainly, but an unessential oddity at best. The film involves shape-shifting vampires, although there’s an unusual family relationship in there too. This one’s not based on a book, rather that King wrote the screenplay direct. Sleepwalkers is a rare Mick Garris/Stephen King film to see the inside of a multiplex (the only one as far as I can tell, but somebody feel free to prove me wrong), but it’s not one of his best. When Sleepwalkerstopped the US box office, it knocked White Men Can’t Jump from the top slot, but only stayed there for a week before Basic Instinct reclaimed the number one position. Connery’s star power helped it just turn a profit, but after one week at number one in the US, it was dethroned immediately by Wayne’s World, which would top the chart for the next five. Still, whilst the Brazilian rainforest setting gives the movie some distinction, there’s little to actually enjoy. After disagreements over the direction of the Jack Ryan series following his work on The Hunt For Red October, McTiernan opted instead to reconnect with the star of that movie, Sean Connery, for Medicine Man instead.īoasting, er, not Lorraine Bracco’s finest work, Medicine Man is a poor mix of drama and action in truth, albeit one that boasts an excellent score. Had fate taken a different turn, then director John McTiernan would have been working on what became Patriot Games for release in 1992. Scorsese’s Cape Fear, meanwhile, would topple Curly Sue from the number one slot. John Hughes, stung by the criticism of it, would begin his retreat from the movies. It took three weeks for the film to get to the top of the US box office, and while Curly Sue was hardly a disaster – it turned a profit – it was hit for its sentimentality, and did just a fraction of the business Home Alone had done the year before. But the combination of James Belushi and newcomer Alison Porter as a pair of scammers just trying to get their next meal never caught on. On paper, it looked like it tapped into what made the Home Alone films so popular.
Warner Bros had high, high hopes for Curly Sue, the film that would be the last directorial effort of the late, great John Hughes. Still, it took a tidy $25 million at the US box office, against not very positive reviews.
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