Amazing Stories – Book Three [VHS]
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The third volume of collected episodes from Steven Spielberg’s mid-1980s television series Amazing Stories includes three memorable stories. First up is “The Amazing Falsworth,” a cat-and-mouse thriller starring Gregory Hines as the title character, a nightclub psychic whose act includes reading the minds of audience members by merely touching them. During a performance Falsworth comes into physical contact with a serial killer; he sees the monster’s most recent victims in his mind and grows terrified for his own safety. Enter a skeptical police detective (Richard Masur) whose real identity is so obvious that director Peter Hyams doesn’t bother to mask it well. One complaint: the episode begins with some truly grisly and gratuitous violence that, in retrospect, had no place in a fantasy series squarely aimed at families and boasting Spielberg’s involvement. Kids should not see “The Amazing Falsworth”–or anything else on Book 3, for that matter. The second episode is certainly one of the most thoughtful in the series: “Life on Death Row,” starring Patrick Swayze in an interesting performance as a convicted murderer. Scheduled to die imminently in the electric chair, Swayze’s character, Eric Peterson, joins an escape effort and is hit by lightning during a storm. The freak accident bestows on him the power to heal the sick and wounded–a cruelly ironic development, given Peterson’s foreshortened destiny. The final story, “No Day at the Beach,” begins the day before the D-Day invasion of Normandy by allied forces, and concentrates on a handful of soldiers as they ready themselves psychologically for this turning point in the battle. Charlie Sheen is the best-known name among the cast in this black-and-white, Twilight Zone-like drama directed by Lesli Linka Glatter. Sheen’s character stands out as the one guy in his company refusing to taunt a simple-minded GI who later becomes a hero at Normandy–or is it someone else besides that poor sap boldly taking out Germans left and right? –Tom Keogh
Is Discontinued By Manufacturer : No
Package Dimensions : 7.32 x 4.19 x 1.12 inches; 6.13 Ounces
Run time : 1 hour and 13 minutes
Release date : August 18, 1993
Date First Available : October 7, 2006
Actors : Tom Willett, Charles Durning, Douglas Seale, Louis Giambalvo, Sharon Spelman
Studio : Universal Studios Home Entertainment
ASIN : 6302142261
Writers : John Falsey, Joshua Brand, Steven Spielberg
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