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Bed & Breakfast (Schwartzman). Shooting in Maine. Roger Moore plays a British con man who somehow washes up to a picturesque bed and breakfast inn run by a grandmother, mother and daughter. Moore charms his way into their establishment but soon the livid fellows Moore has conned show up to exact revenge. Producer Jack Schwartzman. Director Robert Ellis Miller. Screenwriter Cindy Myers. Also stars Talia Shire and Colleen Dewhurst. Late Winter release.

Chicago Joe and the Showgirl (Working Title/Polygram/British Satellite Broadcasting). Shooting in London. Kiefer Sutherland and Emily Lloyd star as an American soldier and British showgirl who engage in mayhem and murder in war-torn London. Producer Tim Bevan. Director Bernard Rose. Screenwriter David Yallop. Also stars Patsy Kensit, Liz Frazer and Alexandra Pigg.

Ghost (Paramount). Shooting in L.A. and NYC. “Airplane!” alum Jerry Zucker directs Demi Moore, Patrick Swayze and Whoopi Goldberg in this spiritual tale. Swayze’s a man trapped as a ghost who seeks the help of a psychic (Goldberg) to communicate with the love of his life (Moore). Executive producer Steven-Charles Jaffe. Producer Lisa Weinstein. Screenwriter Bruce Joel Rubin.

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Hauntedween (Hometown). Shooting in Bowling Green, Ky. Thirty years ago a mansion that billed itself as being haunted closed down when a little girl mysteriously disappeared. Now a college fraternity stages a benefit there unaware of a murderous presence. Executive producers W. R. McCormack and Edward Rhein. Producers William Douglas Robertson and Kurt Andrew Swauger. Director Robertson. Screenwriters Robertson and Swauger. Stars Brien D. Blakley,Blake Pickett, Brad Hanks, Tim Hubbard and Leslie Lacey. Halloween release, of course.

Home Grown (E. K. Gaylord). Shooting in Oklahoma. Scott Glenn, Kate Capshaw and Ben Johnson star in this Stuart Benjamin (“The Pope of Greenwich Village”) directed drama of the tensions, love and jealousies between a rodeo rider and his father. The rider returns to the family ranch after a career-jeopardizing injury, and discovers that his cantankerous dad has been placed in a rest home and endeavors to get him out. Producers Martin Poll and E. K. Gaylord II. Screenwriter Joel Don Humphreys. Also stars Tess Harper, Gary Busey, Mickey Rooney and Clarence Williams III.

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