S U M M E R SCENES

What has become a screen tradition will continue in the summer of ’86. Aside from a few serious-themed titles (like “Heartburn”), the emphasis will be on high-concept popcorn pictures. That means action (“Cobra,” “Raw Deal”), sci-fi and horror (“The Fly”), comedy (“Legal Eagles”), teen tales (“Ferris Bueller’s Day Off”) and teen idols (like Prince in “Under the Cherry Moon”). There’re more than 125 films scheduled. A compilation by Pat H. Broeske.

IT’S ALL TENTATIVE

This listing isn’t intended to be definitive. With so many titles to fit into a 15-week period, many distributors still are wrangling for screen space. Details on some films are also subject to change. That is, some haven’t been finished; a few films have yet to make it from production chart to actual production. So some release dates are tentative. Many films from smaller companies will be relegated to the drive-in circuit or a quickie week at the minitheater at the local mall.

OPENING THIS MONTH

COBRA--Sly Stallone is back in action--as no-nonsense cop Marion Cobretti, assigned to protect fashion model Brigitte Nielsen (a.k.a. Mrs. Stallone) who’s been marked for death by a serial killer. George Cosmatos directs. (Warner Bros.)

THE CRAZY FAMILY--Japanese comedy satirizes materialism with its tale of a family’s woes--which occur after they buy a home in the suburbs. (New Yorker Films)

DANGEROUSLY CLOSE--There’s danger when a high school newspaper reporter learns of a student watchdog group who takes it upon themselves to protect kids from undesirable exchange students. Directed by Albert Pyun. (Cannon Group)

EVILS OF THE NIGHT--Teens invades a private sanitorium and find themselves subjected to the film title. Neville Brand, Aldo Ray, Julie Newmar, John Carradine, Tina Louise. (Aquarius Releasing)

FIRE WITH FIRE--A girl from the right side of the tracks (Virginia Madsen) meets a guy from the wrong (Craig Sheffer). Not everyone is pleased that the Catholic high school student is involved with a prisoner at an honor detention camp. Directed by Duncan Gibbins. (Paramount Pictures)

GETTING EVEN--The city of Dallas is held hostage: If $50 million isn’t paid, deadly chemical gasses will be released. It’s up to industrialist Edward Albert to help save the day. Audrey Landers, Joe Don Baker. (American Distribution Group)

GIRLS SCHOOL SCREAMERS--A weekend at a country estate convinces seven coeds there is life after death. (Troma)

HANDS OF STEEL--Marked for death, because he refused to kill a leading environmentalist, a cyborg turns on his trackers. Daniel Greene, George Eastman and John Saxon. (Almi)

HOLLYWOOD VICE SQUAD--The real-life exploits of an L.A. vice squad veteran inspired this one. Carrie Fisher, Ronny Cox, Frank Gorshin, Ben Frank, Leon Isaac Kennedy, Trish Van Devere, Joey Travolta. (Concorde/Cinema Group)

HOME OF THE BRAVE--Performance artist Laurie Anderson in a multimedia concert. (Cinecom)

IN SEARCH OF A GOLDEN SKY--Family adventure about three orphaned kids left in the care of a back-roads relative. (Movie Store)

JAKE SPEED--A supposedly fictional hero from a series of popular novels is for real . . . and comes to the aid of a lady in distress in a faraway land. Wayne Crawford, Dennis Christopher, Karen Kopins, John Hurt. (New World)

LAST RESORT--Charles Grodin thinks he’s taking the wife and kids to a quiet island getaway. Wrong--it’s a sleazy sex singles club. (Concorde)

POLTERGEIST II: THE OTHER SIDE--Horrors! The Freeling family are in for more battles with the forces of darkness, following their move to Arizona. Craig T. Nelson, JoBeth Williams, Heather O’Rourke, Oliver Robins, Will Sampson, Zelda Rubinstein, Julian Beck and Geraldine Fitzgerald--and things that go bump in the night. Brian Gibson directs. (MGM)

SHORT CIRCUIT--Something happens to No. 5--a robot designed for military use--during an electrical storm. Result: It’s alive--and peace-loving. So the military’s out to get him. John Badham directs Ally Sheedy, Steve Guttenberg, Fisher Stevens, Austin Pendleton and G.W. Bailey. (Tri-Star Pictures)

SWEET LIBERTY--Alan Alda wrote/directed/stars as an historian plunged into a summer of madness when a film company comes to town to make a movie of his book. Michael Caine, Michelle Pfeiffer, Bob Hoskins and Lillian Gish. (Universal)

THREE MEN AND A CRADLE--French comedy (nominated for best foreign-language film of 1985) about three bachelors whose lives change when they discover a baby on their doorstep. (Goldwyn)

TOP GUN--Tom Cruise takes to the skies, as a skilled F-14 pilot who wants to fly by instinct rather than the rules, in this contemporary look at those in training for the Navy’s prestigious Fighter Weapons School. Kelly McGillis, Val Kilmer, Anthony Edwards and Tom Skerritt. Directed by Tony Scott. (Paramount)

JUNE

AMERICAN ANTHEM--Olympic gold medalist Mitch Gaylord and Janet Jones are gymnasts struggling to deal with peer, parental and internal conflicts. Albert Magnoli directs. (Columbia Pictures)

AMERICAN JUSTICE--Action-thriller about an ex-cop who uncovers murder and corruption in a small U.S. border town. Jack Lucarelli, Wilford Brimley and “Simon & Simon” stars Jameson Parker and Gerald McRaney. (Movie Store)

BACK TO SCHOOL--Higher education faces its toughest challenge: Rodney Dangerfield, as a self-made millionaire (through his chain of Tall & Fat Stores), decides to join his son at college. Sally Kellerman, Burt Young, Ned Beatty and M. Emmet Walsh. Alan Metter directs. (Orion Pictures)

BELIZAIRE THE CAJUN--Cajun herbal healer Armand Assante fights marauding vigilantes in Louisiana, circa 1859. (Skouras)

BIG TROUBLE IN LITTLE CHINA--Good ole boy trucker Kurt Russell turns reluctant hero in what’s described as a mystical action-adventure-comedy-kung fu-monster-ghost-story about the imaginary world under Chinatown. John Carpenter directs from a screenplay by “Buckaroo Banzai” creator W. D. Richter. (20th Century Fox)

COMBAT SHOCK--A Vietnam vet finds the war hasn’t ended when he returns to find the Mob has taken over his hometown. (Troma)

DARK OF THE NIGHT--Psychological thriller, made in New Zealand, about a woman who purchases a haunted Jaguar. (Castle Hill)

DONA HERLINDA AND HER SON--From Mexico, a comedy about a mother who wants her gay doctor son (who’s in love with a young music student) properly married. Enter a young woman who catches mom’s approving eye. (Cinevista)

EMANON--A boy enlists the aid of a bum he believes to be an angel to help his mother overcome business and personal problems. (Paul Releasing)

EYES OF FIRE--Ghost story about a band of settlers lost in a demonic forest. (Aquarius)

FAST TALKING--Aussie-made tale of a teen-age Artful Dodger in Sydney. (Cinecom) FERRIS BUELLER’S DAY OFF--Matthew Broderick, as a grandmaster in the game of adult manipulation, takes a day off (he ditches school) for a celebration of life. Written, directed and produced by teen-scene specialist John Hughes. (Paramount)

FUNNY DIRTY LITTLE WAR--Anti-war satire depicts a microcosm of political unrest. It happens in a fictional story, set in Argentina in 1974, when Juan Peron comes back from exile. A winner at the 1985 Berlin International Film Festival. (Cinevista)

A GREAT WALL--It’s culture clash--with comedy--for American-Chinese visiting contemporary mainland China. The first Chinese-American co-production. (Orion Classics)

INVADERS FROM MARS--Remake of the nightmare-inducing sci-fi classic about a young boy who witnesses an alien spacecraft landing in hills behind his house. If only he could get someone to believe him. Karen Black, Hunter Carson, Timothy Bottoms, Laraine Newman and Louise Fletcher. Horrormeister Tobe Hooper directs. (Cannon)

THE KARATE KID: PART II--Kid karate champ Ralph Macchio and mentor Pat Morita journey to Okinawa, where each faces foes bent on their destruction. John Avildsen again directs. (Columbia)

LABYRINTH--David Bowie, Jennifer Connelly and a menagerie of newly created critters star in a fantasy adventure about a girl who must journey through a hazardous labyrinth in order to rescue her baby brother. Mupper master Jim Henson directs; George Lucas exec produces. (Tri-Star)

LEGAL EAGLES--Robert Redford, Debra Winger and Daryl Hannah in a comedy thriller about art fraud--and murder. Ivan Reitman directs. (Universal)

LETTER TO BREZHNEV--When a group of Russians visit Liverpool, England, they encounter cultural shakeups--and Cupid’s arrow. (Circle Films)

LOW BLOW--Hiiiiyah! Martial arts master Leo Fong is hired to rescue a businessman’s daughter from a commune. Troy Donahue, Cameron Mitchell and Akosua Busia. (Crown International)

THE MANHATTAN PROJECT--A resourceful high school student rises to the challenge of a science teacher and makes his own nuclear device. John Lithgow, Christopher Collett and Cynthia Nixon. Marshall Brickman directs. (Fox)

MONA LISA--Set in London’s underworld, this gangster film focuses on the unusual relationship between a high-class prostitute and her driver. Bob Hoskins, Michael Caine and Cathy Tyson. Neil Jordan directs. (Island)

MY LITTLE PONY--First they were toys, then a TV series. Now the colorful little horsies gallop through their first animated feature. With the voices of Jon Bauman, Danny DeVito, Madeline Kahn, Cloris Leachman, Rhea Pearlman and Tony Randall. (De Laurentiis Entertainment Group)

NEVER TOO YOUNG TO DIE--A preppie turns James Bondish hero, thwarting a gang of psycho crazies bent on poisoning the water supply of a big city. John Stamos, Gene Simmons and Vanity. (Paul)

ONE MORE SATURDAY NIGHT--Zanies Al Franken and Tom Davis scripted and star in this comedy about the travails of date night. (Columbia)

QUILOMBO--Brazilian historical saga set in the 17th Century about black slaves who go on the run from the colonizing Dutch. (New Yorker Films)

RAW DEAL--Ex-FBI agent Arnold Schwarzenegger, expelled for excess violence, gets a chance at redemption if he can infiltrate the mob under an assumed identity, and destroy the syndicate from within. Kathryn Harold and Darren McGavin. John Irvin directs. (De Laurentiis)

RUNNING SCARED--Two of Chicago’s finest (Gregory Hines and Billy Crystal) have 30 days to go until their early retirement--but the bad guys may not let ‘em last that long. Comedy-adventure directed by Peter Hyams. (MGM)

RUTHLESS PEOPLE--David Zucker, Jim Abrahams and Jerry Zucker--the trio that let loose “Airplane!”--team-direct this tale about an eccentric heiress (Bette Midler) taken hostage by a pair of likable kidnapers. Trouble is, her creepy businessman husband (Danny DeVito) doesn’t want her back. With Judge Reinhold and Helen Slater. (Touchstone Films)

SAY YES!--Concert pianist Art Hindle has 24 hours to find a bride--if he wants to inherit $250 million left to him by eccentric grandfather Jonathan Winters. (CineTel)

SCREAMPLAY--Murder mystery about a Hollywood screenwriter. (Troma)

SPACECAMP--A group of teen-agers’ summer at a camp for future astronauts turns into an unexpected space shuttle voyage. (The setting was inspired by the real-life U.S. Space Camp at the Space and Rocket Center in Huntsville, Ala.) Kate Capshaw, Lea Thompson, Tate Donovan, Kelly Preston, Larry B. Scott, Tom Skerritt and Leaf Phoenix. Harry Winer directs. (Fox)

STAR KNIGHT--Extraterrestrials meet the Middle Ages as an ailing ruler seeks the proper mate for his marriagable daughter. Miguel Bose, Klaus Kinski and Harvey Keitel. (Cinetel)

JULY

ABOUT LAST NIGHT--Can two people build a relationship out of a one-night stand based on sexual attraction? Rob Lowe and Demi Moore give it a try. Ed Zwick directs, based on David Mamet’s play “Sexual Perversity in Chicago.” (Tri-Star)

ALIENS--Sequel to the 1979 shocker “Alien” finds chief warrant officer Ripley (Sigourney Weaver) returning to the bleak planet where the starship Nostromo took on an uninvited passenger (the gross-out monster the Alien). She’s understandably unnerved to learn there are lots more where it came from. Written and directed by James Cameron. (Fox)

ASSAULT WITH A DEADLY WEAPON--About a rogue police officer who decides to sidestep the law. (Aquarius)

CLASS OF NUKE ‘EM HIGH--All about a monster--created by waste products from a nuclear power plant--running amok on a campus. (Troma)

CLUB PARADISE--Burned-out fireman Robin Williams and reggae musician Jimmy Cliff sink their bucks into a rundown hotel on a small Caribbean isle, which they hope to make the vacation spot of the Western Hemisphere. Checking in: Peter O’Toole, Twiggy, Adolph Caesar, Rick Moranis, Eugene Levy, Andrea Martin and Brian Doyle-Murray. Harold Ramis directs. (Warners)

THE GIRL IN THE PICTURE--Romantic comedy about the relationship of a young photographer and an art student. With John Gordon Sinclair. (Goldwyn)

THE GREAT MOUSE DETECTIVE--The kidnaping of a master toymaker sends a mouse detective in pursuit of the evil Prof. Ratigan (voice by Vincent Price) in the 26th animated feature from the home of the world’s most famous mouse. (Disney)

HARD TRAVELING--During the Depression, a man in a small town is accused of murder. Dan Bessie writes-directs from his father Alvah Bessie’s 1941 novel, “Bread and a Stone.” (The senior Bessie was one of the blacklisted “Hollywood 10.”) (New World)

HAUNTED HONEYMOON--Radio actor Gene Wilder, struck by an attack of irrational fears, journeys to the family mansion for a scary cure. With Gilda Radner, Dom DeLuise (as Wilder’s aunt ) and Jonathan Pryce. Wilder co-wrote/directs. (Orion)

HEARTBURN--Nora Ephron scripted, based on her best-seller (widely talked about as based on her marriage to and divorce from journalist Carl Bernstein), about a pregnant popular writer (Meryl Streep) who discovers that her columnist-husband (Jack Nicholson) is having an affair. Maureen Stapleton, Jeff Daniels, Stockard Channing, Richard Masur, Catherine O’Hara, Steven Hill and Milos Forman. Mike Nichols directs. (Paramount)

LOVE SONGS--All about love, marriage, friendship and reconciliation--set to the romantic ballads of Michel Legrand. Catherine Deneuve, Christopher Lambert and Nick Mancuso. (Spectrafilm)

MAKING CONTACT--A 9-year-old boy’s extrasensory powers enable him to create a fantasy world in which his toys come to life. (New World)

MAXIMUM OVERDRIVE--When the comet Rhea-M begins circling the earth, machines turn against man, killing the species that created them. Horror king Stephen King scripted and directs. With Emilio Estevez, Pat Hingle, Laura Harrington and Christopher Murney. (De Laurentiis)

MONSTER IN THE CLOSET--Said to be frightening and funny “in the tradition of ‘Ghostbusters,’ ” this one stars Claude Akins, Howard Duff, Henry Gibson, John Carradine, Jesse White, Paul Dooley, Stella Stevens and Donald Moffat. (Troma)

MY AMERICAN COUSIN--Just when she’s convinced that the summer of 1959 is going to be a drag, a Candadian girl’s older hot-shot American cousin pulls into view--in his mom’s flaming red Cadillac convertible. (Spectrafilm)

NOTHING IN COMMON--A successful young ad exec must (finally) deal with his parents as individuals and examine the choices he’s made in his own life, when his folks decide to divorce after 34 years of marriage. Garry Marshall directs Tom Hanks, Jackie Gleason, Eva Marie Saint, Sela Ward and Bess Armstrong. (Tri-Star) ONE CRAZY SUMMER--John Cusack, who’s got to write about love, seeks romantic inspiration during a summer vacation in Nantucket. With Demi Moore. Directed by Savage Steve Holland. (Warners)

OUT OF BOUNDS--Iowa teen Anthony Michael Hall hits the mean streets of L.A., where he inadvertently becomes the target of drug dealers and the police (who are tracking him for a murder he didn’t commit). His only ally: a dizzy would-be actress who works as a waitress at the Hard Rock Cafe. Richard Tuggle directs. (Columbia)

POLANSKI’S PIRATES--Dead men tell no tales, but director Roman Polanski will. Walter Matthau is the craggy, peg-legged rogue determined to plunder a wealth-laden Spanish galleon. (Cannon)

PSYCHO III--The Bates Motel is back in business. So, it appears, is Norman (and you know what his specialty is). Anthony Perkins (of course) stars, and makes his directorial debut. With Diana Scarwid. (Universal)

REFORM SCHOOL GIRL--One of Hollywood’s most enduring/lurid genres is spoofed, complete with hardcase guards, sexy inmates, know-nothing police commissioners, food fights and innocents despoiled. With Wendy O. Williams as the baddest of the bad girls and Sybil Danning as the Bible-quoting, power-mad warden. (New World)

ROCKIN’ ROAD TRIP--All about Austin night life and the exploits of a group of musicians (played by the rock group Guadalcanal Diary). (Troma)

TEA IN THE HAREM--Costa-Gavras-produced drama about the Algerian subculture in Paris. (Cinecom)

UNDER THE CHERRY MOON--Set against the glamour of the French Riviera, Prince is a young American pianist playing on the fantasies of young society women, who is himself in pursuit of the daughter (Kristin Scott Thomas) of a powerful shipping magnate. Music score and direction by the Purple One. (Warners)

VAMPS--Horror comedy of sex and the supernatural as three college chums set out to find a stripper for a frat party. What they find at the After Dark Club is bee-zar: The ladies have been around for a loooong time. Grace Jones, Chris Makepeace, Robert Rusler, Dedee Pfeiffer and Gedde Watanabe. Richard Wenk wrote/directs. (New World)

AUGUST

ARMED AND DANGEROUS--John Candy and Eugene Levy are misfits partnered as private security guards. Robert Loggia, Meg Ryan and Kenneth McMillan. Mark Lester directs. (Columbia)

BORN AMERICAN--Three American kids cross the Russian border on a lark and wish they hadn’t. Stars Mike Norris (son of Chuck). (Cinema Group)

THE BOY WHO COULD FLY--An autistic teen-ager spends his time perched on the window sill of his room, arms outstretched, while pretending to fly. His neighbors are in for a surprise. Jay Underwood, Lucy Deakins, Bonnie Bedelia, Fred Savage, Fred Gwynne, Colleen Dewhurst and Louise Fletcher. Written/directed by Nick Castle. (Fox)

CHERRY 2000--When a guy’s robot love partner has an internal meltdown (romance is just a memory in the year 2017), his search for a replacement with tough-talking guide Melanie Griffith brings about the discovery that there is no replacement for the Real Thing. (Orion)

DEADLY FRIEND--Brilliant high school student Matthew Laborteaux pushes technology beyond its limits--with shocking consequences. Gore king Wes Craven directs. (Warners)

EXTREMITIES--Farrah Fawcett turns on her would-be rapist in this adaptation of William Mastrosimone’s Off-Broadway play. With James Russo, Alfre Woodard and Diana Scarwid. (Atlantic)

A FINE MESS--Blake Edwards scripted/directs Ted Danson and Howie Mandel, as two chums--one a movie extra, the other a roller-skating car-hop--who run into encounters with the mob, a fixed horse race, $10,000 and an antique piano. Richard Mulligan, Stuart Margolin, Maria Conchita Alonso, Jennifer Edwards and Paul Sorvino. (Columbia)

FLAGRANT DESIRE--Sam Waterston, Marisa Berenson, Lauren Hutton and Arielle Dombasle in a murder mystery in the vineyards of France. Claude Faraldo directs. (PSM)

FLIGHT OF THE NAVIGATOR--When a family is reunited with the son who disappeared eight years ago, they are startled to see that he hasn’t aged a day. Joey Cramer, Cliff De Young, Veronica Cartwright and Howard Hesseman. Randal Kleiser directs. (Buena Vista)

THE FLY--David Cronenberg directs this remake of the sci-fi favorite about a scientist (Jeff Goldblum) whose molecules are scrambled with those of a common housefly during an experiment in matter transmission. Quick--the swatter! (Fox)

FRIDAY THE 13TH: PART VI--Like death and taxes, Jason Voorhees can’t be stopped. This time, he’s revived by a bolt of lightning--which sends him (again) in search of victims. (Paramount)

GHOST WARRIOR--Cryosurgical techniques revive a samurai warrior, frozen in a bed of ice for over 300 years. Once thawed, Hiroshi Fujioka helps to tame the streets of L.A. Meanwhile, a group of scientists plot his demise (the big chill). (Empire)

HOLLYWOOD AIR FORCE--Set in 1961, when American/Soviet relations weren’t at their best, weekend Guardsmen Lloyd Bridges, Vic Tayback, Chris Lemmon and Graham Jarvis sabotage planned military efforts. Bert Convy directs. (Movie Store)

HOLLYWOOD ZAP--Coming of age tale about of a Mississippi youth enroute to L.A. to meet his long-lost dad. With Chuck Mitchell. (Troma)

HOWARD THE DUCK--The web-footed hero of Marvel Comics journeys to the screen and to planet Earth (home is planet Duck World), where he comes to the aid of a would-be rock star Lea Thompson. George Lucas exec produces. Willard Huyck and Gloria Katz scripted; Huyck directs. (Universal)

JADE JUNGLE--Father and son go after a ruthless kingpin of the Asian underworld. Fred Olen Ray directs Lee Van Cleef, David Carradine, Mako, Lois Hamilton and Laurene Landon. (CineTel)

JUMPIN’ JACK FLASH--Whoopi Goldberg finds her dull bank job take a turn for the exciting when she chances upon a mysterious message on her computer screen. Before you can say “Jumpin’ Jack Flash,” she’s on a rescue mission to save a British operative trapped in the Eastern Bloc. Stephen Collins, Carol Kane, John Wood, Roscoe Lee Browne, Annie Potts and lots of secret agents. Penny Marshall directs. (Fox)

KID COLTER--A young Boston bookworm’s adventures begin when he’s kidnaped while visiting his father. Jim Stafford stars. (Movie Store)

LET’S GET HARRY--Small-town plumbers go into action when their best friend, Harry, is kidnaped by terrorists in South America. Robert Duvall, Gary Busey, Glenn Frey, Tom Wilson, Mark Harmon, Ben Johnson, Rick Rossovich and Michael Schoeffling. Stuart Rosenberg directs. (Tri-Star)

NIGHTMARE WEEKEND--A slightly mad computer genius puts some teens to the test--with death traps--at his posh estate. (Troma)

90 DAYS--Canadian comedy about male-female relations. Giles Walker (“The Masculine Mystique”) directs. (Cinecom)

ON DANGEROUS GROUND--Ecological adventure involving Halley’s Comet and a young physicist trying to prove that sound waves can generate electricity. Stephen Collins, Bo Svenson, Lance Henriksen and Janet Julien. (United Film Distribution)

THE PATRIOT--About efforts to thwart a terrorist who’s smuggling nuclear bombs underwater. Frank Harris directs Gregg Henry, Simone Griffith, Jeff Conaway, Michael J. Pollard and Leslie Nielsen. (Crown)

THE PEANUT BUTTER SOLUTION--Children’s fantasy about a youngster who cures his baldness with a peanut butter solution that’s so potent his hair grows and grows and eventually causes him to be kidnaped--so his hair can be used as a brush to paint magical paintings. (New World)

RAGE OF HONOR--Martial arts star Sho Kosugi has revenge on his mind when he goes undercover as a U.S. agent. (American Distribution)

RED DRAGON--”Miami Vice’s” Michael Mann writes/directs a high-tech saga about the search for a psychopath who murders entire families. William Petersen and Kim Greist. (De Laurentiis)

RESTLESS NATIVES--Coming-of-age tale about two Scottish youths who go the Robin Hood route--becoming contemporary highway robbers. (Orion Classics)

THE RIVER’S EDGE--A real-life Northern California incident inspired this tale of a high schooler who strangles his girlfriend, brags about the murder and takes his friends to view her body. And not everyone is concerned enough to tell the police. Tim Hunter directs Crispin Glover, Roxanna Zal and Dennis Hopper. (Hemdale)

ROAD TRIP--The adventures of competitors in a national tennis tourney in Las Vegas. Steve Carver directs Richard Roundtree, Christopher Lee, Scott Strader and Mariska Hargitay. (Movie Store)

SHANGHAI SURPRISE--Madonna is a prim missionary. Hubby Sean Penn is a not-so-prim fortune hunter. They team, in Shanghai of the late ‘30s, to find a legendary cache of stolen opium. Could romance be far behind? Jim Goddard directs. (MGM)

SOLARBABIES--Set 1,000 years in the future, when water has become more precious than life itself, an ancient force awaits the coming of the Solarbabies to set it free. With Richard Jordan, Jami Gertz, Jason Patric, Lukas Haas, Charles Durning and Sarah Douglas. Alan Johnson directs. Richard Edlund supervises visual effects. (MGM)

STARSHIP REDWING--Sci-fi about conflicts on a mining planet. (Cinema Group)

STEWARDESS SCHOOL--Coffee, tea or comedy? It’s the latter, scripted/directed by Ken Blancato, about a stewardess training school. On board: Sandahl Bergman, Wendie Joe Sperber, Judy Landers and Vicki Frederick. (Columbia)

TEXAS CHAINSAW MASSACRE II--The terrifying Leatherface and his croanies are back and buzzing in this sequel to the 1974 horror landmark. L. M. Kit Carson scripted. Tobe Hooper once again directs. (Cannon)

WILLY/MILLY--A 14-year-old tomboy fantasizes about being a boy. (Cinema Group)

THE WHOOPEE BOYS--It’s slobs vs. snobs when Michael O’Keefe and Paul Rodriguez crash Palm Beach high society. John Byrum directs. (Paramount)

NO RELEASE DATE

ALLAN QUATERMAIN AND THE LOST CITY OF GOLD--Soldier-of-fortune Richard Chamberlain and lady-in-distress Sharon Stone, last seen in “King Solomon’s Mines,” return on a quest to find a legendary city of gold. James Earl Jones, Henry Silva, Robert Donner and Cassandra Peterson (Elvira). Based on H. Rider Haggard’s enduring fantasy saga. Gary Nelson directs. (Cannon)

THE BIKINI SHOP--Brothers whose hormonal fantasies come true when they inherit their aunt’s bikini shop. (International Film Marketing)

THE BUTTERFLY REVOLUTION--Based on William Butler’s youth novel about kids who rebel against the head (Chuck Connors) of a summer camp and take control, with “Lord of the Flies”-like results. Director Bert Dragin co-scripted with Penelope Spheeris. (Crow Productions.)

CRAWLSPACE--Worse than any rent increase are the crawl spaces that landlord Klaus Kinski has rigged in his building. Seems Kinski, son of a Nazi doctor, is running his own little concentration camp. (Empire)

THE DIRT BIKE KID--Fantasy about a young boy who acquires a magic dirt bike. (Concorde/Cinema Group)

HELL CAMP--When a commander flips out, the war games become real for young Army recruits at a survival camp. Tom Skerritt, Lisa Eichhorn, Anthony Zerbe and Richard Roundtree. (Orion)

THE LADIES CLUB--Women vigilantes--some armed with surgical equipment--take on rapists. Karen Austin, Diana Scarwid, Christine Belford, Bruce Davison. (New Line)

MIRACLES--Just-divorced Teri Garr and Tom Conti are reunited--when they’re taken hostage by bank robbers in Mexico. (Orion)

RECRUITS--Comedy about a group of inept cycle cops. (Concorde)

UNDERWORLD--Mutant victims of a scientist’s chemical experiments trigger a war with a criminal underground when they kidnap a young woman whose immunity to the scientist’s drugs may help them save their own lives. With Denholm Elliott, Nicola Cowper and Steven Berkoff. (Empire)

VENDETTA--A karate expert infiltrates a sleazy women’s prison, following the mysterious death of her inmate sister. With Karen Chase and Kin Shriner. Bruce Logan directs. (Concorde)

WHAT HAPPENED TO KEROUAC?--Documentary that makes use of interviews and old footage to survey the life and times of the late Beat poet-writer Jack Kerouac. (New Yorker Films)