Boxoffice-August.1989

TRAILERS
August Releases
A Nightmare on Elm
Street 5: The Dream Child
We would just as soon not speculate on
exactly how, but this new installment in
the ridiculously successful scries apparently
finds Freddy Kruegi-r aiiii( ip.iiiiiiA
fatherhood! That's right, iln niii-iiinr
child molester is about to bit ohk .1 p.ip.i
himself, as this saga just ,t;ctb Mckcr and
sicker. Robert Englund returns as Freddy,
with Lisa Wilcox, a holdover from "Elm
Street 4," also starring A New Line
Turner li' Hooch
With "K-9" having caused onlv a iiiinoi
tir at the boxotticc in April, perhaps the
Cookie
The very British Einily Lloyd ("Wish
You Were Here") stars as a Brooklyn
teenager in this comedy which pairs her
with Peter Falk, They pla>' a fatherdaughter
team of con artists who manage
to turn the tables on both the law and
their rival hoodlums as they work Atlantic
City. The film also stars Diane Wiest,
Brenda Vaccaro, Adrian Pasdar and Jem-
Lewis, who hasn't appeared in a feature
since his impressive work in "King of
Comedy." Susan Seidelman ("Desperately
Seeking Susan") directs from a script
by Nora Ephron ("When Harry Met Sally")
and Alice Aden. Warner Bros, will
open the film in Los Angeles, New York
and Toronto in August, then go wide in
September-
Loose Cannons
"Ghostbusters" notwithstanding, Dan
Aykroyd has become a highly undependalili'
,i( 101, so it is with some caution that
v\ ( ,inii( ipate this new comedy which
|i,nis liiiii, promisingly enough, with Gene
I IcK.knun. Hackman plays a by-the-book
lawman who rebels when he finds that his
new partner (Aykroyd) is haunted by
multiple personalities which kick in
whenever the cop is under stress. Filmed
under the title "The Von Metz Incident,"
the film is directed by Bob Clark, whose
fe