TILL THE END OF THE NIGHT

TILL THE END OF THE NIGHT Scott Valentine, Katherine Kelly Long (1995, Columbia TriStar, R, priced for rental) Valentine has parlayed his work as Mallory Keaton's boyfriend on Family Ties into a career as the Jeff Daniels of the direct-to-Blockbuster genre. Till the End of the Night has the actor in his usual role as a harried young normal guy, who in this case is greatly inconvenienced when his wife's outlaw ex-husband (John Enos) shows up to terrorize Valentine's happy family. Writer-director Larry Brand deserves some credit for providing his psycho with some witty pop-culture obsessions, but the movie never transcends its obvious origin as a Cape Fear knockoff. C-