Comedy-Housekeeping

Beta Tape Housekeeping Comedy…20878..Color..117 mins..RCA/Columbia Home Video..Starring Christine Lahti… Threre s no place like home…especially when Aunt Sylvie s in charge. Christine Lhti gives a brilliant performance as Aunt Sylvie, an eccentric free-spirit who returns to her hometown, a small mountain community in the Pacific Northwest, to care for her two orphaned nieces. At first the two girls (Sara Walker, Andrea Burchill) are thrilled to have Sylvie as their new role model. But as time passes the teenagers find that this quintessentially quirky woman doesnt quitefit in with the rest of the moms– she keeps crumbled crackers in her coat pocket for imaginary childern…has a lifetime supply of empty tim cans and used newspapers..and thinks nothing of taking a midday nap on a bench in town square. When the townspeople decide Sylvie must clean up her act, it seems her fantasy world is abbout to end– but does it? From acclaimed director Bill Forsyth comes this off-beat , witty comedy that New York times critic Vincent Canby has named one of his top-ten favortes of the year.