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Jodie Foster’s performance in “The Accused” earned her a best actress Oscar--but it wasn’t the only film released last year that featured the former child star. There was a good reason why “Stealing Home” (Warner, $89.95, PG-13) didn’t steal the attention. As Michael Wilmington wrote in the Times, this baseball movie is “soggy with borrowed nostalgia.” Mark Harmon co-starred.

Another Oscar nominee, Gene Hackman (nominated for “Mississippi Burning”), also showed up last year in “BAT 21” (Media, $89.95, R), playing an Air Force colonel shot down behind enemy lines in Vietnam. Danny Glover is the brave captain out to rescue him in this “well-crafted but routine war film” (Kevin Thomas in The Times).

Another much-honored actor, Burt Lancaster, stars in “Rocket Gibraltar” (RCA/Columbia, $89.95, PG), which has much less to do with rockets (no, it’s not a sequel to “Twilight’s Last Gleaming”) than with the celebration of a patriarch’s birthday by his family. Despite “overglib dialogue” and “a tendency to reduce every character to type,” Lancaster “makes it soar” with “a performance of majestic dignity and grace” (Wilmington).

The surprise success of last year’s modest “Mystic Pizza” (Virgin, $89.95, R) simply mystified some observers. The story of three aspiring, unmarried women “has nothing new or unique but its background: a small-town New England pizza parlor,” wrote Wilmington. “But the overly familiar routines run by us in a lively manner, and the three bachelorettes--Annabeth Gish, Lili Taylor and, especially, Julia Roberts--are spry and appealing.”

Other new movies-on-tape: “Tougher Than Leather” (RCA/Columbia, $89.95, R), a drama/musical with rappers Run-D.M.C., and two horror films--”The Kiss” (RCA/Columbia, $89.95, R) and “Hellbound: Hellraiser II” (New World, $89.95, R).