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This strange, 1985 experiment by Ridley Scott (Blade Runner)
starred the up-and-coming Tom Cruise in a fairy-tale world of dwarfs
and unicorns and demons. After the horn of a unicorn is broken,
darkness and winter descend upon the world. Cruise's character, helped
along by a magic sprite played by David Bennent (The Tin Drum),
descends into hell to save paradise. This movie is almost a classic
case of art direction gone amok. The somewhat amorphous Cruise doesn't
lend much dramatic focus or artistic definition, but the drama between
Tim Curry's satanic majesty and Mia Sara's character, who becomes a
sort of princess of the netherworld, is pretty captivating. A mixed
experience all around that makes one wish it had been more
successful. --Tom Keogh
