6/25/97::::"EAST SIDE STORY" A German-Soviet musical about factory workers
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6/25/97::::"GABBEH"(Mohsen Makhmalbaf,dir; Shaghayegh Jodat,Abbas Sayyahi) Iranian film about a magic carpet and the love between a nomad girl and a fabled horseman
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6/27/97::::"BRILLLIANT LIES"(Anthony LaPlaglia) woman sues her former boss for sexual harrassment
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6/27/97:::*"CONTEMPT"(Jean-Luc Godard["Breathless"],dir; Brigitte Bardot,Jack Palance,Michel Piccoli; 1963) Rerelease about a screenwriter adapting "The Odyssey" for a vulgar producer who wants babes in thongs.
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6/27/97:::*"FACE/OFF"(John Woo["Broken Arrow"],dir; Nicholas Cage,John Travolta,Joan Allen) A futuristic noir about an FBI agent who trades places with a terrorist courtesy of some of tomorrow's best in plastic surgery.
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6/27/97::::"HERCULES"(Ron Clements & John Musker,dir; voices of Tate Donovan,James Woods,Danny DeVito) Disney musical cartoon about the demigod, his 12 labors, and his nemesis, Hades.
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6/27/97::::"MY BEST FRIEND'S WEDDING"(P.J. Hogan["Muriel's Wedding"],dir; Julia Roberts,Dermot Mulroney,Cameron Diaz) A plutonic couple who kidded about getting married if neither found anyone by age 28. Now one is engaged, against the wishes of the other.
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6/27/97:::*"SHALL WE DANCE"(Masayuki Suo,dir; Koji Yakusho,Tamiyo Kusakari) A Japanese businssman, bored with his life, takes some dancing lessons to meet a beautiful ballroom instructor, and together, they discover the joys of cutting a rug
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6/27/97::::"TETSUO II:THE BODY HAMMER" F/X heavy sequel to the 1989 headbanger
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7/2/97:::::"GUANTNAMERA"(Tomas Gutierrez Alea,dir) a woman returns to Cuba after being away for 50 years
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7/2/97::::*"MEN IN BLACK"(Barry Sonnenfeld["Get Shorty'],dir; Will Smith,Tommy Lee Jones,Linda Fiorentino) A rookie must deal with his new position on a top-secret government agency that monitors alien activity on Earth.
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7/2/97:::::"OUT TO SEA"(Walter Mattheau,Jack Lemmon,Brent Spiner) Two guys pretend to be cruise-ship dance instructors in order to seduce wealthy women.
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7/2/97:::::"WILD AMERICA"(Jonathan Taylor Thomas) Three brothers leave their home in 1967 Arkansas to roam the wilderness photographing animals.
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7/4/97::::*"FOREVER MOZART"(Jean-Luc Godard["Breathless"],dir) Life, art and power set in Sarajevo
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7/4/97:::::"THRILL RIDE"(IMAX) gives a front seat on a rollercoaster.
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7/9/97::::"FOUR LITTLE GIRLS(Spike Lee["Malcolm X"],dir) Documentary about the murder of four young black girls in a Birmingham church in 1963
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7/11/97:::*"CONTACT"(Robert Zemeckis["Back to the Future"],dir; Carl Sagan,wrt; Jodie Foster,Matthew McConoughey) A scientist intercepts a message from outside the solar system which the government wants to keep her out of.
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7/11/97::::"MRS. BROWN"(John Madden,dir; Judi Dench,Billy Connolly) Queen Victoria has an affair with a Scottish guide, which scandalizes the court
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7/11/97:::*"A SIMPLE WISH"(Michael Ritchie["Fletch"],dir; Mara Wilson,Martin Short,Kathleen Turner,Aidan Quinn,Amanda Plummer,Francis Capra) A girl wishes for a fairy godmother and gets a godfather instead.
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7/11/97:::*"STAR MAPS" A Latino kid makes his way into Hollywood by selling maps to the stars' homes
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7/16/97::::"NOTHING TO LOSE"(Tim Robbins,Martin Lawrence) A yuppie joins forces with the man who tries to carjack him to seek revenge on the woman who did him wrong.
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7/18/97::::"GEORGE OF THE JUNGLE"(Brendan Fraser) Adaption of the cartoon about a Tarzan-like fellow who falls in love with a socialite.
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7/18/97:::*"MIMIC(Guillermo del Toro["Cronos"],dir; John Sayle["Lone Star"] & Steven Soderbergh["Sex,Lies,And Videotape"],wrt; Mira Sorvino,Jeremy Northam,Josh Brolin) Two scientists use some genetic engineering to stop a viral epidemic, causing Nature to strike back.
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7/18/97::::"THIS WORLD, THEN THE FIREWORKS"(Michael Oblowitz,dir; Billy Zane,Gina Gershon) 1950s criminal lovers and partners in sexual perversity.
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7/23/97::::"LOVE'S DEBRIS"(Werner Schroeter,dir) documentary about opera divas
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7/25/97:::*"AIR FORCE ONE"(Wolfgang Petersen["Das Boot"],dir; Harrison Ford,Gary Oldman,Glenn Close, William Macy) A terrorist hijacks the President's jet.
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7/25/97::::"ALIVE AND KICKING"(Nancy Meckler,dir; Jason Flemyng,Anthony Sher) A young dancer with AIDS and an AIDS therapist come together and unearth emotions {Winner of Hampton Film Fest}
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7/25/97::::"BOX OF MOONLIGHT"(Tom DiCillo["Living in Oblivion"],dir; John Turturro,Sam Rockwell,Catherine Keener) An uptight electrical engineer meets a self-styled woodsman.
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7/25/97:::*"CONSPIRACY THEORY"(Richard Donner["Lethal Weopon"],dir; Mel Gibson,Julia Roberts,Patrick Stewart) A cab driver conspiracy nut finds out about a plot to assassinate a U.S. attorney.[Warner Bros.]
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7/25/97::::"LATIN BOYS GO TO HELL"(Ela Troyano) Gay Latinos come of age in Brooklyn
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7/25/97:::*"STAR MAPS"(Miguel Arteta,dir; Douglas Spain) A second-generation immigrant kid tries to break into Hollywood by hustling and selling maps to the stars' homes
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7/30/97::::"187"(Kevin Reynolds["Waterworld",dir; Samuel L. Jackson) A schoolteacher returns to the classroom a year after being stabbed.
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8/1/97::::*"COP LAND"(James Mangold["Heavy"],dir; Sylvester Stallone,Robert DeNiro,Ray Liotta,Michael Rappaport,Janeane Garafalo,Harvey Keitel) A small-town Jersey sheriff is startled to learn that the NYC cops who live in his burg have some secrets they want to keep.
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8/1/97::::*"EVENT HORIZON"(Paul Anderson["Mortal Kombat"],dir; Laurence Fishburne,Sam Neill,Kathleen Quinlan,Joely Richardson) In 2046, a rescue team is sent in search of a spaceship that vanished at the edge of the solar system seven years earlier.
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8/1/97:::::"LEAVE IT TO BEAVER"(Cameron Finley) Adaptation of the tv-series.
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8/1/97:::::"MORTAL KOMBAT:ANNHILATION"(Christopher Lambert) Sequel to the adaptation of the video game about an extradimensional martial arts tournament.
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8/1/97:::::"PICTURE PERFECT"(Jennifer Aniston,Jay Mohr,Kevin Bacon) A stressed out woman has trouble picking which of two guys she likes best.
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8/1/97:::::"SHIVERS"(David Cronenberg["Crash"],dir; Paul Hampton,Joe Silver) Cronenberg's first film,rereleased. Tale of sexual promiscuity and zombification.
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8/6/97:::::"HAMSON" Scandinavian docudrama about Nobel Prize-winning author and Nazi sympathizer Knut Hamson
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8/8/97:::::"CAREER GIRLS"(Mike Leigh["Secrets and Lies"],dir) Working-class tale of two women coming to terms with roads not taken
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8/8/97:::::"DESPERATE MEASURES"(Andy Garcia,Michael Keaton) A cop searching for a donor for his son's bone-marrow transplant learns that the only candidate is a convicted serial killer.
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8/8/97:::::"IN THE COMPANY OF MEN" Best Dramatic Feature at Sundance.
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8/8/97:::::"SONATINE"(Takeshi Kitano,dir; Takeshi Katano,Aya Kokumai) Gangster film about a Yakuza member who moves in on some fresh territory
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8/8/97:::::"SOUL IN THE HOLE"(Danielle Gardner,dir) documentary about NYC basketball
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8/8/97:::::"STEEL"(Shaquille O'Neal,Judd Nelson) Adapted from the DC comic about a armor plated superhero that battles a renegade government agent who's arming LA's gangs with high-tech hardware.
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8/8/97:::::"TALK OF ANGELS"(Nick Hamm,dir; Polly Walker,Vincent Perez,Frances McDormand) An Irish governess forever changes the lives of those around her as the Loyalists and Republicans battle for the future of Spain.
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8/15/97::::"BANDWAGON"(John Schultz,dir; Kevin Corrigan,Matthew Hennessey) The members of a garage band go on the road and try to make it big without killing each other.
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8/15/97::::"DIFFERENT FOR GIRLS"(Richard Spence,dir; Rupert Graves,Steven Mackintosh) Two boys are hell-raising classmates in the 70s. Twenty years later, they meet again, yet one of them's now a woman. They fall in love until he realizes she was a him too.
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8/15/97::::"EXCESS BAGGAGE"(Alicia Silvestone,prd; Alicia Silvestone,Christopher Walken,Benicio DelToro,Harry Connick,Jr) A neglected rich girl fakes her own kidnapping to get attention and winds up on the road with a car thief.
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8/15/97::::"THE FULL MONTY"(Peter Cattaneo,dir; Robert Carlyle) Unemployed steelworkers form a strip act.
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8/15/97::::"FREE WILLY 3"(Jason James Richter) The boy tries to save the whale from poachers
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8/15/97::::"HOW TO BE A PLAYER"(Lionel C. Martin,dir; Bill Bellamy,Pierre Edwards,Natalie Desselle) Sexploitation black comedy about a cold-hearted playah who becomes the target of two women out to prove that men are sluts
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8/15/97:::*"SHE'S SO LOVELY"/"SHE'S DE LOVELY"(Nick Cassavetes["Unhook the Stars"],dir; John Cassevetes["A Woman Under the Unfluence"],wrt; Sean Penn,Robin Wright, John Travolta) A man is sent to jail for defending his wife
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8/15/97::::"WIDE AWAKE"(M.Night Shyamalan,dir; Denis Leary,Dana Delany,Rosie O'Donnell) A fifth-grader decides to find out where his dead grandfather has really gone
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8/20/97::::"CONSPIRATORS OF PLEASURE"(Jan Svankmajer,dir) People live out their sexual fantasies. Live action and animation.
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8/22/97:::*"SPAWN"(Michael Jai White,John Leguizamo,Martin Sheen) Todd McFarlane's hit comic book about a superhero from Hell trying to get revenge on his killer
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8/22/97:::*"SUNDAY"(Jonathan Nossiter,dir; David Suchet,Lisa Harrow) Melancholy look at love, obscurity, and lonliness {Winner of Sundance Fest, 97}
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8/29/97::::"BOOGIE NIGHTS"(Paul Thomas Anderson["Hard Eight"],dir; Mark Wahlberg,Burt Reynolds, William H.Macy,Don Cheadle) A nightclub employee is recruited into the 70s porno industry.
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8/29/97::::"HOODLUM"(Bill Duke["A Rage In Harlem"],dir; Laurence Fishburne,Tim Roth) Gang war between black and Jewish mobsters in 1930s New York.
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8/29/97:::::KULL THE CONQUEROR"(Robert E.Howard,novel; Kevin Sorbo)
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8/29/97::::"OPERATION CONDOR"(Jackie Chan,dir; Jackie Chan,Carol Cheng) Chan journeys to the Sahara Desert to search for a cache of German gold while ingeniously evading criminals of all sorts
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12/19/97::::*"TITANNIC"(James Cameron["The Abyss"],wrt/dir; Leonardo DiCaprio,Kate Winslett,Bill Paxton,Billy Zane) A prohibited young couple fall in love on a doomed ship.[Paramount]
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