MILK MONEY (1994)

MILK MONEY Melanie Griffith, Ed Harris (1994, Paramount, PG-13, priced for rental) The producers of this family-values sex comedy- in which a boy (Michael Patrick Carter) sets his widowed dad (Harris) up with a hooker (Griffith) who wears her heart of gold on her sleeve-must have thought they had a sure thing: half Sleepless in Seattle, half Pretty Woman, with a dash of Risky Business. It plays, however, like a cynically manipulative sitcom with a predictable plot and a self-consciously cute preteen hero. Harris is endearing, but the haggard Griffith poses throughout, and Carter comes off as the poor boy's Macaulay Culkin. C- -Caren Weiner

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