Movies

January, 1985

Christmas Comes to L.A. at roughly the same time as a global catastrophe in Night of the Comet (Atlantic), writer-director Thom Eberhardt's irreverent s-f comedy. Two teenaged sisters (played with irrepressible zest by Catherine Mary Stewart and Kelli Maroney) are among a handful of Californians who escape instant annihilation--after which Comet proceeds as if to ponder how a couple of fun-loving Valley girls might face the end of the world. Well, they go shopping, for one thing, wrongly presumi...