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Show " The arts and people behind the scenes Wednesday September 2, 1987 BRYON SAXTON Lakeside Review staff A barrage of summer fluff has come and gone, as film production companies gear up for their last minute Oscar push with more than 60 scheduled fall releases. Films scheduled for release this fall promise to provide something for everyone, including the long-await- ed return of Disneys car- toon classic Cinderella. Below is a tentative list of films scheduled for release over the next three months. finds Nowhere to Hide for Amy Madigan, who received an Oscar nomination as Mid-Septemb- er the defiant daughter of Gene Hackman in Twice in a Lifetime. Madigan portrays Barbara Cutter, an ne helicopter-pilot-turned-housew- whose husband is murdered when he discovers a plot to sabotage an American base. Also arriving in September is Dudes starring Pretty in Pink Jon Cryer and Catherine Mary Stewart from The Last Starfigh-te- r. In the 19th Century, a dude was an Easterner traveler. In 1987 a dude is Grant (Cryer), a kid from New York who heads to California to start a new life. In the Mood is the true story of a teenager who stole the headlines from the World War II effort. It stars Patrick Dempsey of Cant Buy Me Love. Rampage offers a new upcoming star in an old hook. Young district attorney Micheal Biehn from The Terminator and Aliens, against his deepest convictions, is assigned to prosecute a viscious serial killer and seek the death penalty. Cannon Films plans to release two big September films, the first being Castaway starring Oliver Reed who plays publisher Gerald Kingsland who places an ad looking for a wife to join him for one year on a deserted tropical island. Cannon has also scheduled for fall Norman Mailers Tough Guys Dont Dance" starring Ryan O Neal as writer Ted Madden looking for an alibi to avoid a murder rap. Its based on Mailers novel with the same name. Real Men features legendary CIA sensation Nick Pirandello (James Belushi), who is a company man with a problem: His partners have a nasty habit of getting killed out from under him. In this United Artists picture, Pirandello has but five days the world with the help of his unwilling new charge, civilian Bob Wilson, played by John Ritter. Orphans, based on the play with the same name, is the story of two orphans who kidnap a gangster, only to be turned around by his fatherly love. It stars Albert Finney. Paramounts Fatal Attraction is also slated for September, starring Micheal Douglas and Glenn Close from The Jagged Edge. - Douglas plays a happily married New York City attorney who becomes intertwined with a woman with a pathological obsession, be- to-sav- ed ftr y o' Ay- ginning a nightmare for all involved. Brad Davis from Midnight Express brings to the screen the life of New York detective Eddie Brennan in Heart. Brennans character was also part of four other novels. Amazon Women on the Moon. The filmakers who brought the anthology Kentucky Fried Movie to the big screen have mounted another comic attack on the major and minor annoyances of contemporary life. Rosanna Arquette and Steve cast for lead an this September release. The Great Land of Small, is a childs tale of a brother and sister who try to secure a leprechauns Gut-tenbe- all-st- ar in Dancers, a contemporary romance set in a dance company. In New will release The Penimid-Octob- tent, I r, V f Mi mb yn . ' V .vS DEG Possessed by demons, a vengeful father, played by Lance Henriksen, uses powers to wreak revenge for his sons death in Pumpkinhead. 0fln starring a detective in Fatal Beauty.1 Hellraiser is an early Halloween release when a young couple return to an ancestral home only to discover its haunted. New World Pictures presents for September Jane and the Lost City based on the popular comic strip seen in the London Daily News. It stars Sam Jones (Flash Gordon) and Maud Adams. Fatal Beauty, scheduled for October, stars Whoopi Goldberg as Detective Rizzoli, who is on a personal crusade to stop a ruthless businessman who has blanketed Los Angeles with a lethal designer drug nicknamed Fatal Freed. Set against the background Assante ta Raul Julia, and Rona safety. of the contemporary Southwest, and the unusual Easter rituals of the penitente sect, The Penitent is a love story focusing on three people whose relationships undergo the ultimate test of faith during the Easter holiday. The Killing Time is a suspense film with a triple crossmurder plot. It stars a n cast, lead by Beau Rae. Norma of Bridges Positive I.D. is an October mystery of a wife and mother who assumes a new identity after she becomes the victim of a bruBeauty. e crime. It stars Stephanie tal in with forces Rizzoli Joining Davies. and John this MGMUA release is Cross My Heart is a comic Masks-- Sam Elliott, who is hired to stop her. odyssey of contemporary dating mores scheduled for October. Goldberg in another October reMartin Short from Inner-spac-e Stars lease stars as an eccentric actress and Annette OToole as who acts out various characters two single people who experience as she spends an outrageous evening on The Telephone. It excitement, romance, despair and also stars John Heard. joy on their critical third date. Three OCIock High is a AcadeBoom, starring Baby comic nightmare that follows the Diane Keaton, my Award-winnbrings her gifted sense of comic growing frustration of a high nuance to this new comedy about school journalism student who inadvertently finds himself facing the chaos that erupts when the ulbattle with the an inherits the timate bully. utlimate baby. campus Filmed on location at Ogden Big Shots is the story of two School Three OCIock High youngsters from different sides of High is scheduled for October. the track struggling to get by Weeds also an October rewithout their dads in todays lease is a human drama starring world. Set for October Big as a convict who reNick Nolte of Shots stars Robert Prosky deems himself and is parolled Hill Street Blues. his On the lighter side. Bill Paxton through on writing. the outside he orgaOnce and Linda Kozlowski, from nizes a drama troupe of Crocodile Dundee star in Pass overcome who personal the Ammo scheduled for release differences to change their wavs. Oct. 9. Hail! Hail! Rock V Roll is a Conceived long before the headPass lines of todays newspapers, triumphant celebration of rock the Ammo is the story of two pioneer Chuck Berry, retelling the latter-da- y Robin Hoods who inhistory of rock n roll through his vade the television studio of a career. Live performances and interhusband and wife evangelist views with such recording greats team. Something a little different in as Bruce Springsteen and Linda October will have Mikhail Bar- Ronstadt are also part of this Ocyshnikov returning to the screen tober documentary. well-know- Ras-co- ; baby-boom- er '!.. Centu-ryVis- Armand er $ I Fighting drug dealers, Whoppi Goldberg plays rg after-scho- ol Walt Disney i The sooty scullery maid is transformed into princess derella in the animated classic. Films newest comedy, Cin- - stars Shelly Long as Lucy Chadman, a suburban housewife who has returned from the grave to pester swinging single husband Corbin Bernsen, from the hit television series L.A. Law. The month of November also promises something new for the movie goer before the Christmas (movie) rush. Russkies to be released Nov. 6. is an adventurecomedy starring Leaf Phoenix, and Peter Billast-minu- te lingsley. The story focuses on three South Florida boys who find a shipwrecked Soviet sailor on their Key West beach. At first, theyre tempted to turn him in to local military authorities, but a friendship begins to develop instead. Lorimars Made in Heaven marks the screen return of Timothy Hutton Ordinary People as a man who falls in love after his untimely death with a celestial being in heaven, played by Kelly McGillis from Top Gun. Adult Education, also for November, is a contemporary MOVIES, page 2D ad-S- iknli, j ee m.' |