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TITLE: CONEHEADS

DIRECTOR: STEVE BARRON

WRITER: TOM DAVIS, DAN AYKROYD, BONNIE TURNER, TERRY TURNER

THE BOTTOM LINE: Another Saturday Night Live skit is turned into a winning movie. And this one has a little heart.

Social historians will please note that of the two most endearing families in American pop culture, one (the Simpsons) is yellow and chinless, and the other (the Coneheads) eats insulation and has enough scalp to tarp the Matterhorn.

There were suspicions of bottom trawling when Saturday Night Live boss Lorne Michaels chose to follow up last year's hit movie Wayne's World with a new stretching of...

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