Boxoffice-April.2000
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Matt Damon ("The Talented<br />
Mr. Ripley") and Drew<br />
Barrymore ("Never Been<br />
Kiseed") lend their voices to<br />
this animated sci-fier about a<br />
rebellious teenage boy who<br />
realizes his destiny is to save<br />
humankind after the Earth<br />
blows up. Bill Pullman<br />
("Brokedown Palace"), Nathan<br />
Lane ("Trixie"), Janeane<br />
Garofalo ("What Planet Are<br />
From? ") and John Leguizamo ("Summer of Sam") co-star. "Anastasia's" Don Bluth and<br />
Goldman direct and produce; Ben Edlund and Randall McCormick script. (Fox, 6/1 6)<br />
("The Mummy"! and William noirish screwball comedy about an<br />
Hurt ("One True Thing") co-star, inarticulate amateur detective who<br />
Istvan Szabo ("Mephisto") directs becomes embroiled in a murder<br />
a script he penned with Israel mystery involving a promiscuous<br />
Horovitz; "eXistenZ's" Robet senator. Emily Watson ("Angela's<br />
Lantos and Andras Hamori produce.<br />
Ashes"), Dermot Mulroney ("Where<br />
(Paramount Classics, 6/9) the Money Is"), Nick<br />
Nolle<br />
Trixie<br />
Writer-director<br />
("Breakfast of C<br />
Alan<br />
Rudolph<br />
Requiem for a Dream<br />
("Simpatico"), Nathan Lane ("Love's<br />
Labour's Lost") and Brittany Murphy<br />
("Girl, Interrupted") star. John Binder<br />
\rti<br />
5; Robert Altman (Rudolph's<br />
Jared Leto ("American Psycho") stars in writer-director<br />
Darren Aronofsky's follow-up to his critically acclaimed "Pi."<br />
The drama consists of parallel story lines. In one, which Leto's<br />
character, his girlfriend and his best friend dream of opening a<br />
club in New York City but sacrifice their ambitions to drugs.<br />
The other involves Leto's character's mother, a pill popper who<br />
aspires to be on a game show. Ellen Burstyn ("The Yards"),<br />
Jennifer<br />
N^i<br />
Connelly<br />
("Waking the<br />
Dead") and<br />
Marlon Wayans<br />
("Scary<br />
Movie") costar;<br />
Eric<br />
Watson ("Pi")<br />
and Palmer<br />
West produce.<br />
(Artisan, 6/16<br />
ltd)<br />
City") directs; Elizabeth<br />
Cuthrell, David Urrutia and<br />
Oren Moverman script based on<br />
Denis Johnson's short-stories;<br />
Lydia Dean-Pilcher ("Cradle<br />
Will Rock"), Cuthrell and<br />
Urrutia produce. (Lions Gate,<br />
6/16 ltd, 6/30 exp)<br />
The Match<br />
Featuring amateur soccer at<br />
its most amateur, "The Match"<br />
is a romantic comedy about<br />
two rival Scottish pubs that<br />
have met on the soccer fielcj<br />
once a year for almost a century.<br />
Ninety-nine years ago, the<br />
owner of Le Bistro wagered<br />
("There's Something About Mary") as a Rhode Island state<br />
trooper who surfers from a multiple personality disorder.<br />
When he neglects to take his medication, both of his personalities<br />
meet and fall in love with the same woman, ultimately<br />
declaring war on each other. Renee Zellweger ("The Bachelor")<br />
co-stars. Mike Cerrone lends a hand on the script;<br />
Bradley Thomas ("There's Something About Mary") produces.<br />
(Fox, 6/23)<br />
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Billy Crudup patrons wouldn'j<br />
("Without Bar, that his<br />
Limits") and Samantha Morton beat his team once in the nex<br />
("Dreaming of Joseph Lees") star 1 00 years, putting his establish<br />
in this road movie about a m ent at stake. Max Beesley an<br />
young man who journeys from a Laura Fraser ("Titus") star. Mic<br />
life of drug addiction and petty hii<br />
crime to one of redemption,<br />
Davis<br />
debut;<br />
writes and<br />
Guyman<br />
directs<br />
Cassidy<br />
Holly Hunter ("Things You Can Allan Scott produce. (US/<br />
Tell Just by Looking at Her"), 6/16)<br />
Dennis Hopper ("EDtv") and<br />
Denis Leary ("The Thomas<br />
Crown Affair") co-star. Alison<br />
pui-i-p,,<br />
WllUKeil p„n nun<br />
Maclean (TV's "Sex and the Mel Gibson (next week':<br />
Patriot") voices Rocky thJJ<br />
Rooster in this animated send-