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GO NOW Robert Carlyle, Juliet Aubrey (1998, PolyGram, R, $76.99) EVERYTHING THAT RISES Dennis Quaid, Mare Winningham, Ryan Merriman (1998, Warner, unrated, $71.99) If there is any entertainment value to be found in disastrous neurological trauma, these two movies are determined to find it. The British Go Now, shown at festivals in 1995 but released theatrically this year, opts for disease-of-the-week realism as Carlyle plays a lovable working-class bloke whose life -- all earthy repartee with soccer team pals (some of which is actually intelligible to American ears) and ordinary romance with Aubrey's Karen -- is interrupted by the onset of multiple sclerosis. It's all about Carlyle's agonizingly effective performance. In the television movie Everything That Rises (directed by star Quaid), the victim is a rancher's teenage son (Merriman) who is paralyzed in a truck crash. Unlike Go Now, the film mercifully downplays the excruciating details of the character's handicap in favor of ambling along predictably to a feel-good finale. Go Now: B- Rises: C+


Posted Dec 04, 1998
 

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