SNEAKS JR. : Only 122 Movie-Going Days Until Santa

Following are capsule summaries of fall and Christmas movies. They are listed by opening dates, according to the latest information available. Unscheduled movies are listed at the end of each month and at the end of the list. SEPTEMBER 6

Company Business. A spy swap goes awry in Berlin, and aging spies Gene Hackman of the CIA and Mikhail Baryshnikov of the Soviet KGB find themselves on the run. Directed by Nicholas Meyer. (MGM/Pathe)

SEPTEMBER 13

Freddy’s Dead: The Final Nightmare. Freddy Krueger meets a formidable foe who ends his reign of terror on Elm Street. Starring Robert Englund, Lisa Zaner, Yaphet Kotto. Directed by Rachel Talalay. (New Line Cinema)

Crooked Hearts. A look at a close-knit family whose four independent-minded children are being smothered by parents. Starring Vincent D’Onofrio, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Pete Berg, Cindy Pickett and Peter Coyote. Directed by Michael Bortman. (MGM/Pathe)

The Pope Must Die. When a priest becomes Pope by clerical error, a mob boss tries to get him excommunicated so he can put in his own candidate. Starring Robbie Coltrane, Beverly D’Angelo, Paul Bartel, Herbert Lom. Directed by Paul Bartel. (Miramax)

Sex, Drugs, Rock & Roll. Eric Bogosian plays 14 different roles in this satire adapted from his theatrical show. Directed by John McNaughton. (Avenue)

SEPTEMBER 18

Paradise. Adapted from the French film “Le Grand Chemin,” a drama about a young boy (Elijah Wood) who helps a couple (Melanie Griffith and Don Johnson) overcome a personal tragedy during a summer in Paradise, Mich. Directed by Mary Agnes Donoghue. (Touchstone)

SEPTEMBER 20

Rambling Rose. In 1935, a 19-year-old woman (Laura Dern) upsets a Southern family with her sexual rambling. Also starring Robert Duvall, Diane Ladd and Lucas Haas. Directed by Martha Coolidge. (New Line/Seven Arts)

Late for Dinner. Two brothers go through a bizarre experiment in 1962 that allows them to return to their hometown 29 years later physically unchanged. Starring Brian Wimmer, Peter Berg, Marcia Gay Harden, Colleen Flynn and Peter Gallagher. Directed by W. D. Richter. (Columbia)

Liebestraum. Two strangers find themselves attracted to each other and the link between a modern day affair and a murderous past. Starring Kim Novak, Kevin Anderson, Bill Pullman. Directed by Mike Figgis. (MGM/Pathe)

McBain. McBain (Christopher Walken) pays a debt to a dead Vietnam buddy by helping his sister overthrow a corrupt South American regime. Also starring Maria Conchita Alonso, Michael Ironside, Steve James. Directed by James Glickenhaus. (Shapiro Glickenhaus)

Livin’ Large. A comedy about a black man who struggles to succeed by assimilating into the world of TV news, then watches as his TV image slowly turns white--literally. Starring T. C. Carson and Blanche Baker. Directed by Michael Schultz. (The Samuel Goldwyn Co.)

The Indian Runner. The story of two brothers, one good, one bad, and their struggle to keep their family together. Starring David Morse, Viggo Mortensen, Valeria Golino, Sandy Dennis, Dennis Hopper and Charles Bronson. Written and directed by Sean Penn. (MGM/Pathe)

Blood and Concrete. The noirish story of an antihero with a great pair of shoes; his girlfriend, who is addicted to an aphrodisiac, and a lowlife who pursues him. Starring Billy Zane, Jennifer Beals, Darren McGavin. Directed by Jeffrey Reiner. (I.R.S.)

SEPTEMBER 27

Highlander II--The Quickening. The struggle to destroy an artificial shield in the year 2024 that protects the Earth from harmful solar radiation is at the heart of this sequel. Starring Sean Connery, Christopher Lambert, Virginia Madsen, Michael Ironside. Directed by Russell Mulcahy. (InterStar Releasing)

The Super. Joe Pesci plays a slumlord ordered by a court to live in one of his own rundown tenements. Also starring Vincent Gardenia, Madolyn Smith Osborne, Ruben Blades. Directed by Rod Daniel. (Fox)

Beautiful Dreamers. A look at the effect of poet Walt Whitman on Dr. Maurice Bucke, superintendent of an Ontario, Canada, asylum for the insane, during a visit in 1880. Starring Rip Torn, Colm Feore, Wendel Meldrum and Sheila McCarthy. Directed by John Kent Harrison. (Hemdale)

Necessary Roughness. A comedy about a group of collegiate football players and their honest coach. Starring Scott Bakula, Robert Loggia, Harley Jane Kozak, Sinbad and Hector Elizondo. Directed by Stan Dragoti. (Paramount)

Married to It. The lives of three families of differing backgrounds in New York City converge at their children’s school. Starring Beau Bridges, Stockard Channing, Robert Sean Leonard, Mary Stuart Masterson. Directed by Arthur Hiller. (Orion)

Deceived. Goldie Hawn plays a New York art restorer whose loving husband dies in a car accident; she discovers the man she married may have died years before. Also starring John Heard and Ashley Peldon. Directed by Damian Harris. (Touchstone)

The Fisher King. A visionary street person (and former professor of medieval history) helps an arrogant, unemployed disc jockey to see a magical side of New York City. Starring Robin Williams and Jeff Bridges. Directed by Terry Gilliam. (TriStar)

Dogfight. In 1963, a Marine about to ship out of San Francisco asks out a shy waitress as a joke, and then finds there’s more to her than plain looks. Starring River Phoenix and Lili Taylor. Directed by Nancy Savoca. (Warner Bros.)

SEPTEMBER UNSCHEDULED

Uranus. Right after World War II, a French village faces the fact that some citizens fought in the Resistance and others did what they had to to survive. Starring Gerard Depardieu, Claude Berri, Philippe Noiret. Directed by Berri. (Prestige)

Naked Tango. The dark side of romance is explored in the world of smoky tango bars in 1924 Buenos Aires. Starring Vincent D’Onofrio, Mathilda May and Esai Morales. Directed by Leonard Schrader. (New Line)

Love Crimes. Sean Young stars as a prosecuting attorney who is obssessed with tracking down an accused rapist (Patrick Bergin), then becomes involved with him. Directed by Lizzie Borden. (Miramax)

Fifty-Fifty. Peter Weller and Robert Hays star as mercenaries hired by the CIA to overthrow a small island dictatorship. Directed by Charles Martin Smith. (Cannon)

OCTOBER 4

The Rapture. The story of a woman’s search for spiritual meaning in her life in contemporary L.A. Starring Mimi Rogers, David Duchovny. Directed by Michael Tolkin. (New Line)

The Man in the Moon. Two teen-age sisters’ lives are marred by tragedy after they fall in love with the same boy. Starring Sam Waterston, Tess Harper, Gail Strickland. Directed by Robert Mulligan. (MGM/Pathe)

Twenty-One. A 21-year-old woman tells tales of sex, love and coming of age in the ‘90s. Starring Patsy Kensit, Maynard Eziashi, Jack Shepard. Directed by Don Boyd. (Triton Pictures)

Hangin’ With the Homeboys. An ensemble comedy set in the Bronx and Manhattan. Starring Doug E. Doug, Mario Joyner, John Leguizamo and Nestor Serrano. Directed by Joesph E. Vasquez. (New Line)

Ricochet. The story of an obsessed criminal (John Lithgow) who seeks revenge on the rookie patrolman (Denzel Washington) who put him away and then went on to become a successful district attorney. Also starring Lindsay Wagner, Ice-T and Kevin Pollack. Directed by Russell Mulcahy. (Warner Bros.)

Stepping Out. Liza Minnelli stars as a tap teacher whose students learn about life. Also starring Bill Irwin. Directed by Lewis Gilbert. (Paramount)

Shout. John Travolta stars in this ‘50s musical directed and choreographed by Jeffrey Hornaday. Travolta is a music teacher who emphasizes the liberating power of music. Also starring Jamie Walters, Richard Jordan, Heather Graham and Linda Fiorentino. (Universal)

OCTOBER 9

Little Man Tate. Jodie Foster makes her directing debut with this story about a gifted child caught between his mother and a child psychologist. Starring Jodie Foster, Dianne Wiest and Adam Hann-Byrd. (Orion)

OCTOBER 11

The Taking of Beverly Hills. Football player Ken Wahl and cop Matt Frewer try to thwart high-tech thieves. Also starring Harley Jane Kozak and Robert Davi. Directed by Sidney Furie. (Columbia)

Ernest Scared Stupid. Ernest P. Worrell (Jim Varney) lets loose a troll and gets help from a witch (Eartha Kitt) to save his town. Directed by John Cherry. (Touchstone)

Frankie & Johnny. Based on the play “Frankie & Johnny in the Clair de Lune” about a short-order cook (Al Pacino) and his affair with a waitress (Michelle Pfeiffer). Directed by Garry Marshall. (Paramount)

The Hitman. Chuck Norris goes undercover to bring down a group of mobsters. Directed by Aaron Norris. (Cannon)

Suburban Commando. Hulk Hogan plays an intergalactic mercenary intending to spend a quiet vacation on Earth. Also starring Christopher Lloyd and Shelley Duvall. Directed by Burt Kennedy. (New Line)

Shattered. Tom Berenger, suffering amnesia in a near-fatal accident, is remade by those around him into the man his wife really wanted. Also starring Greta Scacchi, Bob Hoskins and Corbin Bernsen. Directed by Wolfgang Petersen. (MGM/Pathe)

City of Hope. A John Sayles film about romance and revenge, a young man coming of age and a father fighting for his family and losing his soul. Starring Vincent Spano, Tony Lo Bianco, Joe Morton, Angela Bassett. (The Samuel Goldwyn Co.) OCTOBER 17

The Dark Backward. Popularity and success come to a young comic who grows a third arm. Starring Judd Nelson, Bill Paxton, Wayne Newton, Lara Flynn Boyle, James Caan and Rob Lowe. Directed by Adam Rifkin. (Greycat Films)

OCTOBER 18

My Own Private Idaho. Gus Van Sant’s latest film deals with the ups and downs of two Portland, Ore., street hustlers. Starring Keanu Reeves, River Phoenix and Chiara Casselli. (Fine Line Productions)

Cool as Ice. Rapper Vanilla Ice plays a nice guy whose motorcycle breaks down in a small town and who proves to the townspeople that he’s a hero. Also starring Kristin Minter, Michael Gross and Candy Clark. Directed by David Kellogg. (Universal)

OCTOBER 25

The Rolling Stones at the Max. The first full-length IMAX feature, a look at the Rolling Stones “Steel Wheels” tour. Directed by Julien Temple. (BCL Presentation/IMAX Corp.)

Highway to Hell. A man has 24 hours to rescue his girlfriend after she is kidnaped by a demon from hell. Starring Patrick Bergin, Chad Lowe, Kristy Swanson and Richard Farnsworth. Directed by Ate de Jong. (Hemdale)

The Butcher’s Wife. Demi Moore, the Southern-born wife of Greenwich Village butcher George Dzundza, displays an uncanny influence on the neighborhood. Also starring Jeff Daniels, Frances McDormand, Margaret Colin and Mary Steenburgen. Directed by Terry Hughes. (Paramount)

Other People’s Money. Larry the Liquidator (Danny DeVito) thinks that the New England Wire & Cable Co. will be a financial pushover and easy to buy. But he hasn’t reckoned on old-fashioned company loyalty. Starring Gregory Peck, Penelope Ann Miller, Piper Laurie and Dean Jones. Directed by Norman Jewison. (Warner Bros.)

OCTOBER UNSCHEDULED

K2. A tough lawyer and a quiet research physicist take on Pakistan’s K2, one of the most difficult mountains in the world to climb. Starring Michael Biehn and Matt Craven. With music by Pink Floyd. Directed by Franc Roddam. (Miramax)

Iron Maze. In a Pennsylvania steel town, a dangerous triangle forms among a Japanese entrepreneur, his American wife and an unemployed steelworker. Starring Bridget Fonda, Jeff Fahey, J. T. Walsh and Hiro Murakami. Directed by Hiroaki Yoshida. (Castle Hill)

Year of the Gun. An American journalist writing a novel in Rome finds that his story about a terrorist organization is all too real. Starring Andrew McCarthy, Valeria Golino and Sharon Stone. Directed by John Frankenheimer. (Triumph)

Dead On: Relentless II. A series of brutal murders in L.A. leads the investigating detective to an international espionage cover-up. Starring Ray Sharkey, Leo Rossi, Meg Foster and Miles O’Keefe. Directed by Michael Schroeder. (New Line Cinema)

976-EVIL II. Two teen-agers confront their high school principal under the influence of a direct telephone line to hell. Starring Pat O’Bryan, Rene Assa and Debbie James. Directed by Jim Wynorski. (Live Entertainment)

Europa. An American native of German descent returns to the fatherland after World War II, becomes a sleeping-car porter and falls in love with the boss’ daughter, a former Nazi terrorist. Starring Jean-Marc Barr, Barbara Sukowa, Udo Kier and Eddie Constantine. Directed by Lars Von Triert. (Prestige)

The Search for Signs of Intelligent Life in the Universe. A film of the acclaimed one-woman show with Lily Tomlin playing a galaxy of characters. Written by Jane Wagner and directed by John Bailey. (Orion Classics)

Guilty as Charged. A man whose family is brutally murdered tracks down and electrocutes the killers then extends his vigilante justice. Starring Rod Steiger, Lauren Hutton, Heather Graham, Lyman Ward and Isaac Hayes. Directed by Sam Irvin. (I.R.S.)

The Giant of Thunder Mountain. Richard Kiel plays an 1880 mountain man feared by the local townspeople but befriended by a little girl. Also starring Jack Elam, Marianne Rogers and Foster Brooks. Directed by James Roberson. (Castle Hill)

Homicide. Joe Mantegna is an inner-city cop whose look into an apparently routine murder explodes into a possible anti-Semitic conspiracy. Written and directed by David Mamet. (Triumph)

And You Thought Your Parents Were Weird. Two brothers design a robot that becomes inhabited by the spirit of their father. Starring Marcia Strassman, Joshua Miller, Edan Gross and Alan Thicke. Directed by Tony Cookson. (Trimark)

Mindwalk. Based on Fritjof Capra’s philosophical book “The Turning Point,” the film involves an intellectual discussion between a physicist and her daughter (Liv Ullmann and Ione Skye), a politician (Sam Waterston) and a poet (John Heard). Directed by Bernt Capra, younger brother of the author. (Triton Pictures)

Love Potion No. 9. Two shy scientists develop a love potion but find out, after trying it, that true love is better than popularity and desire. Starring Tate Donovan and Sandra Bullock. Directed by Dale Launer. (Fox)

Whore. Ken Russell’s latest takes a close look at the life of a streetwalker, those who have abused her and those who have befriended her. Starring Theresa Russell, Benjamin Mouton and Antonio Fargas. (Trimark)

Eraserhead. Re-release of David Lynch’s 1977 film about a strange couple with an even stranger baby that drives away Mom and gives Dad nightmares. Starring John Nance, Charlotte Stewart, Allen Joesph and Jeanne Bates. (Miramax)

29th Street. A finalist for millions in the New York lottery finds himself the focus of local thugs. Starring Danny Aiello, Anthony LaPlaglia and Lainie Kazan. Directed by George Gallo Jr. (Fox)

NOVEMBER 1

Hard Promises. A young woman (Sissy Spacek) finds out that her ex-husband has been invited to her wedding. He didn’t know they were divorced and tries--in 24 hours--to win her back. Also starring William Petersen, Brian Kerwin, Mare Winningham and Jeff Perry. Directed by Martin Davidson. (Columbia)

The People Under the Stairs. Horror-meister Wes Craven takes us to the neighborhood’s creepiest house. Starring Brandon Adams, Everett McGill and Wendy Robie. (Universal)

Curly Sue. John Hughes writes, produces and directs a romantic comedy about an 8-year-old orphan, her guardian and a big-city lawyer. Starring Jim Belushi, Kelly Lynch and Alisan Porter. (Warner Bros.)

NOVEMBER 8

Prospero’s Books. Peter Greenaway’s unorthodox approach to Shakespeare’s “The Tempest,” with Sir John Gielgud as Prospero. Also starring Isabelle Pasco, Mark Rylance, Erland Josephson. (Miramax)

All I Want for Christmas. Two New York City children want their estranged parents back together during the holidays. Starring Harley Jane Kozak, Jamey Sheridan, Ethan Randall, Kevin Nealon, Thora and Lauren Bacall. Directed by Robert Lieberman. (Paramount)

Strictly Business. A rising young black real estate executive meets a woman at a funky downtown dance club and gets together with her with the help of a mailroom clerk. Starring Joseph C. Phillips, Halle Berry and Tommy Davidson. Directed by Kevin Hooks. (Warner Bros.)

NOVEMBER 15

Game. A modern couple face the ultimate challenge: commitment. Starring Courtney Cox, Arye Gross, Kevin Pollak and Julie Brown. Directed by Mathew Meshekoff. (Miramax)

Article 99. A surgical team in a veterans hospital fights bureaucracy to get patients decent care. Starring Forest Whitaker, Ray Liotta, Kiefer Sutherland, Lea Thompson and Kathy Baker. Directed by Howard Deutch. (Orion)

Life Is Sweet. A look at an eccentric family of misfits, two parents with twin daughters: one of whom is a plumber, the other confused and headed for a nervous breakdown. Starring Alison Steadman, Jim Broadbent, Claire Skinner and Jane Horrocks. Directed by Mike Leigh. (October Films)

NOVEMBER 22

Beauty and the Beast. Animated feature based on the classic fairy tale of a young lady who falls in love with a mannerly beast. With original songs by Howard Ashman and Alan Menken (Oscar winners for “The Little Mermaid”). Voices of Paige O’Hara, Angela Lansbury, Jerry Orbach and David Ogden Stiers. Directed by Gary Trousdale and Kirk Wise. (Walt Disney Pictures)

An American Tail: Fievel Goes West. Steven Spielberg’s animated mouse Fievel Mousekewitz moves to the Wild West to pursue his dream of becoming a lawman. With the voices of John Cleese, Dom DeLuise, Phillip Glasser and Amy Irving. Directors Phil Nibbelink and Simon Wells. (Universal)

The Double Life of Veronique. The story of two physically identical women who are born on the same day in different countries and lead separate lives. Starring Irene Jacob and Philippe Volter. Directed by Krzysztof Kieslowski. (Miramax)

The Addams Family. Cartoonist Charles Addams’ macabre family copes with a threat to its gothic lifestyle. Starring Raul Julia, Anjelica Huston and Christopher Lloyd. Directed by Barry Sonnenfeld. (Paramount)

My Girl. An 11-year-old girl whose father is the local mortician finds out about love and jealousy one summer. Starring Macaulay Culkin, Anna Chlumsky, Jamie Lee Curtis and Dan Aykroyd. Directed by Howard Zieff. (Columbia)

NOVEMBER UNSCHEDULED

Stepkids. A comedy about a 13-year-old girl who copes with the fragmented families of her divorced parents and gaggles of siblings. Starring Hilary Wolf, David Strathairn, Margaret Whitton and Griffin Dunne. Directed by Joan Micklin Silver. (New Line Cinema)

Shakes the Clown. Life among birthday party clowns, especially one who has a drinking problem and a rocky relationship with his girlfriend, an aspiring pro bowler. Starring Bobcat Goldthwait and Julie Brown. Directed by Goldthwait. (I.R.S.)

La Belle Noiseuse. An artist who gave up a decade earlier is inspired to paint again by the beauty of another artist’s girlfriend. Starring Michel Piccoli, Emmanuelle Beart and Jane Birkin. Directed by Jacques Rivette. (MK2)

December. Five East Coast prep school friends make a big decision the night Pearl Harbor is bombed. Starring Wil Wheaton, Balthazar Getty and Brian Krause. Directed by Gabe Torres. (I.R.S)

One False Move. A small-town Arkansas sheriff (Bill Paxton) has to deal with three fugitives from Los Angeles and the two L.A. cops chasing them. Directed by Carl Franklin. (I.R.S)

Blue Movie Blue. Tom Skerritt is a traveling trumpet player with a heroin problem and a daughter named Blue (Nina Siemaszko) in tow. To feed his habit, Blue becomes a prostitute. With Joe Dallesandro and Wendy Hughes. Directed by Zalman King. (Vision International)

Spotswood. A corporate efficency expert is hired to help boost a moccasin factory’s output and has to deal with its rather eccentric work force. Starring Anthony Hopkins and Ben Mendelsohn. Directed by Mark Joffe. (Miramax)

We’re Talkin’ Serious Money. Two New York hustlers flee to California to avoid the mob and find they have something crucial to a bribery scandal. Starring Dennis Farina, Leo Rossi, Fran Drescher. Directed by James Lemmo. (New Line Cinema)

Past Midnight. A social worker becomes involved with a client convicted of a savage murder. Starring Rutger Hauer, Natasha Richardson and Clancy Brown. Directed by Jan Eliasberg. (New Line Cinema)

Shining Through. During World War II, a secretary in the offices of the OSS persuades her boss to send her on a mission to Nazi Germany. Starring Michael Douglas, Melanie Griffith, Liam Neeson, Sir John Gielgud and Joely Richardson. Directed by David Seltzer. (Fox)

Alone Together. Goldie Hawn stars as a single mother struggling to make ends meet and raise her 12-year-old son. With Arliss Howard, Keith Carradine and James Gammon. Directed by Chris Menges. (MGM/Pathe)

Cape Fear. Robert De Niro plays an ex-con who terrorizes the family of the lawyer (Nick Nolte) who failed to keep him out of jail. Also starring Jessica Lange, Joe Don Baker and Juliette Lewis. Directed by Martin Scorsese. (Universal)

Heaven Is a Playground. The story of three guys whose lives come together on an urban baskeball court. Starring Michael Warren, D. B. Sweeney, Bo Kimble and Victor Love. Directed by Randall Fried. (New Line Cinema)

At Play in the Fields of the Lord. Based on the novel by Peter Matthiessen, a story of spiritual discovery and culture clash among misssionaries, gunrunners and natives in the Amazonian jungle. Starring Tom Berenger, Aidan Quinn, Kathy Bates, John Lithgow, Darryl Hannah and Tom Waits. Directed by Hector Babenco. (No distributor)

Rhapsody in August. Akira Kurosawa directs the story of a family’s emotional reconciliation with long-estranged Japanese-American relatives. Starring Sachiko Murase, Hisashi Igawa, Toshie Negishi and Richard Gere. (Orion Classics)

Meeting Venus. A little-known Hungarian conductor (Niels Arestrup) is given the opportunity to conduct Wagner’s Tannhauser to an international audience but is beset by strikes, financial difficulties and squabbles with diva Glenn Close (whose singing is provided by Kiri Te Kanawa). Directed by Istvan Szabo. (Warner Bros.)

DECEMBER 11

Hook. Peter Pan, despite his best efforts, has grown up and now must return to Never-Never Land to rescue his children from the nasty Captain Hook. Starring Dustin Hoffman, Robin Williams, Julia Roberts and Bob Hoskins. Directed by Steven Spielberg. (TriStar)

DECEMBER 13

Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country. The final adventure of the starship Enterprise under the command of James T. Kirk pits the crew against the Klingon empire. Starring William Shatner, Leonard Nimoy, DeForest Kelley, Walter Koenig, James Doohan, Nichelle Nichols and George Takei. Directed by Nicholas Meyer. (Paramount)

DECEMBER 20

Father of the Bride. A modern version of the ‘50s film with Steve Martin in the Spencer Tracy role as the father and Kimberley Williams as the bride. Also starring Diane Keaton and Martin Short. Directed by Charles Shyer. (Touchstone)

Bugsy. A look at the life of gangster Bugsy Siegel and his affair with Virginia Hill, who inspired him to build Las Vegas’ first casino. Starring Warren Beatty, Annette Bening and Harvey Keitel. Directed by Barry Levinson. (TriStar)

DECEMBER 22

Madame Bovary. Claude Chabrol’s film based on Flaubert’s novel about the fantasies and machinations of a bored country doctor’s wife in a small village in France. Starring Isabelle Huppert, Jean-Francois Balmer and Christophe Malavoy. (The Samuel Goldwyn Co.)

DECEMBER UNSCHEDULED

For the Boys. Bette Midler and James Caan play a song-and-dance team that entertains the troops from World War II to the Vietnam War. Also starring George Segal, Jack Sheldon. Directed by Mark Rydell. (Fox)

High Heels. Pedro Almodovar’s film about a mother and her daughter who reconcile after 15 years, only to find themselves embroiled in a murder investigation when the daughter’s husband (the mother’s ex-over) is killed. Starring Victoria Abril, Marisa Paredes and Miguel Bose. (Miramax)

Map of the Human Heart. The story of a man and woman who fall in love as children and are reunited during World War II. Starring Patrick Bergin, John Cusack, Anne Parillaud and Jeanne Moreau. Directed by Vincent Ward. (Miramax)

Jack the Bear. Danny DeVito, a recently widowed father of two young boys, moves to Oakland and becomes a late-night TV horror film host. Starring Robert J. Steinmiller Jr. and Miko Hughes, Directed by Marshall Herskovitz. (Fox)

The Prince of Tides. High school teacher Nick Nolte tries to untangle his family’s dark past with the help of psychiatrist Barbra Streisand. Based on Pat Conroy’s novel. Directed by Streisand. (Columbia)

Grand Canyon. A comedy about the unpleasantness of urban life in L.A. Starring Danny Glover, Kevin Kline, Steve Martin, Mary McDonnell, Alfre Woodward and Mary Louise Parker. Directed by Lawrence Kasdan. (Fox)

Rush. Screenplay by Peter Dexter, based on the bestselling novel by Kim Wozencraft about the world of undercover narcotics agents. Starring Jennifer Jason Leigh and Jason Patric. Directed by Lili Zanuck. (MGM/Pathe)

The Last Boy Scout. Bruce Willis and Damon Wayans are uneasy partners investigating the murder of a young woman who was once a client of one and the girlfriend of the other. Directed by Tony Scott. (Warner Bros.)

The Mambo Kings. Two brothers from Cuba make their way to New York City in 1953 playing lively music of the mambo. Based on the book by Oscar Hijuelos. Starring Armand Assante and Antonio Banderas. Directed by Arne Glimcher. (Warner Bros.)

City of Joy. The title refers to the most impoverished area of Calcutta, where an American doctor, an Indian couple and a British woman who runs a clinic there find purpose and fulfillment. Starring Patrick Swayze, Pauline Collins, Om Puri, Shabana Azmi and Art Malik. Directed by Roland Joffe. (TriStar)

Criminals. When a couple in Monte Carlo attempt to return a lost dog to its owner, they find the owner murdered and wind up as suspects. Starring John Candy, James Belushi, Cybill Shepherd, Sean Young, Ornella Muti, Richard Lewis and Giancarlo Giannini. Directed by Eugene Levy. (MGM/Pathe)

The Inner Circle. A film from Andrei Konchalovsky about a loyal Soviet citizen who is Stalin’s personal projectionist and becomes part of his inner circle. Starring Tom Hulce, Lolita Davidovich, Bob Hoskins and Bess Meyer. (Columbia)

TO BE DETERMINED

Kafka. A fictional story involving writer Franz Kafka. Starring Jeremy Irons, Theresa Russell, Sir Alec Guinness, Armin Mueller-Stahl and Joel Grey. Directed by Steven Soderbergh.

Fried Green Tomatoes. The friendship of two women in rural Alabama. Starring Kathy Bates, Jessica Tandy, Mary Stuart Masterson, Cicely Tyson, Mary Louise Parker. Directed by Jon Avnet. (Universal)

Midnight Clear. A group of young American soldiers in World War II confront Germann soldiers of a similar age. Starring Ethan Hawke, Kevin Dillon, Frank Whaley. Directed by Keith Gordon. (InterStar Releasing)