Siskel & Ebert: 10-21-89

Note: Blending with both "Andyfilm" and "Oakley Tapes" recordings with a few commercials in between. Unfortunately, they were taped over including the animated "Blockbuster Video" commercial on the first break.

Gene Siskel & Roger Ebert reviews "Fat Man and Little Boy" (The "Oppenheimer" of the 80s that somehow became forgotten and no surprise, (to put it lightly) a bomb at the box office! Made about $4 Million out of a $30 Million Budget. Ouch! Perhaps releasing it in October was the wrong choice. While a decent historical war film on the events and a birth creation of the Atomic Bomb, it does have many flaws and miscasting choices of the leads including Paul Newman as "Colonel Leslie Groves" and Dwight Schulz as physicist, "J. Robert Oppenheimer". Also stars Bonnie Bedelia, Kelly McGillis, John Cusack, John C. McGinley and Laura Dern. Written By: Bruce Robinson and Co-written & Directed By: Roland Joffé. In 2023, director Christopher Nolan did his version with Cillian Murphy in the role. And that's a better film!); "I, Madman" (An incredible Horror Fantasy with Jenny Wright. Kinda a rare surprise that it was release on Home Video after a theatrical release that month) "Gross Anatomy" (A Medical School Comedy with Matthew Modine, Daphne Zuniga and Christine Lahti.); "Story of Women" and "When the Whales Came". And a recap of Today's program.

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