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LATE MOVIE MOVES,,,<br />

Still Crazy<br />

Stephen Rea ("The Crying Game") and<br />

Billy Connolly bring their British humor to<br />

this comedy about a glam-rock '70s band<br />

trying to make it big again in the 1990s.<br />

Strange Fruit, having experienced an explosive<br />

breakup at an influential music fest<br />

20 years ago, try to recapture the youth,<br />

music and opportunities (both professional<br />

and romantic) the band had the first time<br />

around. Brian Gibson ("What's Love Got to<br />

Do with It") directs; "Excess Baggage's"<br />

Dick Clement and Ian La Frenais script;<br />

Amanda Marmot produces. (Columbia,<br />

1/22 after Dec. Oscar run)<br />

Velcro.<br />

Paste.<br />

True love.<br />

Another thing that sticks:<br />

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At First Sight<br />

Val Kilmer and Oscar winner Mira<br />

Sorvino ("Mighty Aphrodite") pair in this<br />

romantic drama culled from the writings of<br />

physician Oliver Sacks ("Awakenings").<br />

Kilmer plays a blind man who, with encouragement<br />

from love interest Sorvino,<br />

suddenly regains his sight through experimental<br />

surgery. Now he must become reacquainted<br />

with a sparkling new world he<br />

previously knew only through sound and<br />

touch. Kelly McGillis and Steven Webber<br />

(TV's "Wings") co-star. Irwin Winkler ("The<br />

Net") directs, and he scripts with Steve<br />

Levitt; Winkler also produces with Rob<br />

Cowan (also "The Net"). (MGM, 1/1 7)<br />

Love Etc.<br />

Charlotte Gainsbourg ("The Little Thief<br />

stars in this French rom/com as a shy<br />

woman who thinks she's found love in the<br />

even shyer Benoit, until Benoit's outgoing<br />

buddy Pierre becomes jealous and sets out<br />

to seduce her. Yvan Attal and Charles Berling<br />

co-star. Marion Vernoux directs and<br />

f)roduces; Dodine Herry adapts a novel by<br />

ulian Barnes. (Phaedra, Jan. undated)<br />

Nobody<br />

Japanese director Toshimichi Ohkawa<br />

presents this action/thriller about a trio of<br />

businessmen who, out for a couple of<br />

drinks, end up in a bar brawl after simply<br />

standing up for themselves. The situation<br />

escalates, people start dropping dead, and<br />

they don't even know wno they're up<br />

against. Masaya Kato, Jinpachi Nezu and<br />

Riki Takeuchi star. (Phaecfra, Jan. undated)<br />

Another Day in Paradise<br />

Notorious "Kids" director Larry Clark<br />

goes more mainstream in this gritty crime<br />

drama about a makeshift family of thieves.<br />

Hardened crooks (James Woods and Melanie<br />

Griffith) discover their more familial<br />

sides when they adopt a couple of young<br />

troubled lovers and teach them their thieving<br />

ways. But the high-flying lifestyle does<br />

not prove nearly as attractive in the end as<br />

first thought. Vincent Kartheiser ("Alaska")<br />

and "Two Guys and a Girl's" Natasha<br />

Gregson Wagner co-star. Newcomers Stephen<br />

Chin and Christopher B. Landon<br />

adapt a story by Eddie Little; Chin, Clark<br />

and Woods produce. (Trimark, 1 2/30)<br />

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Response No. 461<br />

<strong>January</strong>, <strong>1999</strong> 15

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