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Boys<br />
Winona Ryder stars in this Interscope production<br />
about a wild young woman who is<br />
thrown from her horse one autumn day and<br />
discovered by boys from a boarding school.<br />
There, a senior ("Rambling Rose's" Lukas<br />
Haas) secretes her in his room and nurses her<br />
back to health—and they fall in love. Stacy<br />
Cochran ("My New Gun") writes and directs;<br />
Peter Frankfurt ("Juice") and Touchstone's<br />
Paul Feldsher produce. iBuena Vista, 8/25)<br />
Exploitips: Sounds to be an older-skewing<br />
"chick flick" variant on the story of Snow<br />
White. Ryder's similarly themed "Little<br />
Women " performed surprisingly well this past<br />
Christmas, but "Boys"— in the hands of the<br />
deftly satiric Cochran— could be more comic<br />
than classic. Pitch toward young women, who<br />
might go for a romantic tale as summer ends.<br />
Something to Talk About<br />
lulia Roberts stars as a headstrong woman<br />
married to a charming but adulterous man<br />
(Dennis Quaid) in this tale of three generations<br />
of women in a Southern horse-raising family<br />
and their relationships with the male gender.<br />
Robert Duvall ("The Paper"), Kyra Sedgwick<br />
("Singles") and Cena Rowlands ("Night on<br />
Earth") co-star for director Lasse Hallstrom<br />
("What's Eating Gilbert Crape"). Paula<br />
Weinstein and Anthea Sylbert produce for<br />
Spring Creek Productions; Callie Khouri<br />
("Thelma & Louise") scripts. (Warner, 8/4)<br />
Exploitips: Even without a big hit In a while,<br />
Roberts remains one ofAmerica's favorite marquee<br />
names— less true for Quaid, another actor<br />
in search of turnstile success ("Wyatt Earp").<br />
With the venerable Duvall and Rowlands<br />
aboard for the art-housey Hallstrom and literate<br />
Weinstein ("Fearless"), one might expect high<br />
Steal Big/Steal Little<br />
High-octane director Andrew Davis ("The Fugitive," "Under Siege") helms this<br />
action/comedy about two identical brothers jboth played by "Hero's" Andy<br />
Garcia)—one a good-hearted agrarian, the otner a slicK wheeler-dealer—who<br />
come into comic contention overo billion-dollar plot of land. Alan Arkin ("North")<br />
and Rachel Ticotin ("Natural Born Killers") co-star. Davis scripts with Terry Kahn<br />
and produces with Fred Caruso ("Surviving the Game"). (Savoy, 8/25)<br />
Exploitips: Director Davis and actor Garcia are sure to be prominently featured<br />
in Savoy's marketing plans, and they should be in yours, too.<br />
onscreen quality over top ticket quantity. Emphasize<br />
the Roberts name, as she's the one<br />
element that will make the difference.<br />
The Brothers McMullen<br />
Marking the launch of Eox's classics division<br />
run by former Coldwyn head Tom Rothman,<br />
this Fox Searchlight pickup (out of<br />
EIGHT<br />
Sundance, where it shared a Grand jury nod)<br />
tells the story of three Irish-Catholic brothers<br />
(Jack Mulcahy, Edward Burns and Michael<br />
McGlone) and their Long Island encounters<br />
with sex, marriage and infidelity. The film<br />
marks the first feature for co-star Burns, who<br />
directs, scripts and produces. See our review<br />
in the April issue. (Fox Searchlight, 8/9)<br />
Exploitips: Low-budget art-houser has<br />
buzz thanks to its Sundance win— an honor<br />
previously enjoyed by Steven Soderbergh's<br />
equally relationship-driven "sex, lies, and videotape.<br />
" Promotional efforts should center on<br />
hot young director Burns. New York locales<br />
and (in markets with an appreciable Irish-<br />
American demographic) the ethnic angle.<br />
Fair Game<br />
In this high-heat tale of Miami vice, William<br />
Baldwin ("A Pyromaniac's Love Story")<br />
and supermodel Cindy Crawford star as a<br />
family attorney on the run from high-tech<br />
killers and the police detective who's disobeying<br />
orders to protect her. Director Andy<br />
Sipes (the short "The Champion") makes his<br />
feature debut; Charlie Fletcher scripts; |oel<br />
Silver ("Demolition Man") produces for his<br />
Silver Pictures. (Warner, 8/1 1<br />
Babe<br />
In a live-action film that blends special effects and animal performances, a<br />
peculiar talking piglet named Babe, unwilling to accept the life that's expected<br />
of him, decides he wants to be a sheepdog (more exactly, a sheep-pig) and<br />
takes up herding. Director Chris Noonan produces and scripts with Georqe<br />
Miller 'The Witches ( of Eastwick") for the Kennedy/Miller Co. (Universal, 8/4)<br />
Exploitips: A late entry in the live-action animal flick boom touched off by<br />
"Free Willy," itself sequelized this summer. A barnyard-type pig "petting zoo"<br />
could spark extra interest on opening weekend.<br />
Exploitips:<br />
Supermodel Cindv Cra\.\iord's<br />
dcltui dtter'- all kinds of clothes and cosmetics<br />
tie-in possibilities via local merchants. Run a<br />
Cindv-lookalike contest at your theatre, and<br />
feature the winner in street and lobby ballyhoo.<br />
Wild Bill<br />
Will Hickok survive in the season in which<br />
"Wy.itt Earp" died? Director/st ripter Walter<br />
I lill ("Geronimo: An American Legend") still<br />
believes in the vsestern's resurgence—which<br />
will face a boxoffice litmus test with this<br />
chronicle of the latter-day exploits of the legendary<br />
gunfighter in Doadwood, the Dakota<br />
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