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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 />
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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