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The Honolulu Advertiser
Posted on: Friday, November 23, 2001

Movie Scene
Maybe coming soon to a theater near you

Associated Press

LOS ANGELES — Here are other films that may or may not see the light of the silver screen in Hawai'i theaters. Some already are in limited release on the Mainland:

Rick (Harry Connick Jr.) and Katharine (Lynn Redgrave) take a stroll in "The Simian Line."

Associated Press

• "The Simian Line": Four couples are thrown into turmoil when a psychic predicts a breakup among them.

• "American Adobo": A comedy about five Filipino American pals coming to grips with romance and careers.

• "The Devil's Backbone": The Spanish Civil War is backdrop for a ghost story at a school for war orphans.

• "Sidewalks of New York": Edward Burns' ensemble romance in Manhattan.

• "In the Bedroom": Sissy Spacek and Tom Wilkinson star in a riveting tale of family tragedy and revenge.

• "ABCD": A sister and brother try to reconcile their Hindu heritage with life in America. (Nov. 30)

• "The Affair of the Necklace": Hilary Swank is a disenfranchised royal seeking her due at the court of Louis XVI. (Nov. 30)

• "Behind the Sun": The makers of "Central Station" spin the tale of a blood feud between two Brazilian families. (Nov. 30)

• "Porn Star: The Legend of Ron Jeremy": A documentary examining an adult-film star. (Nov. 30)

• "The Business of Strangers": Stockard Channing and Julia Stiles mess with each other's minds on a business trip. (Dec. 7)

• "No Man's Land": Enemy soldiers stuck in a trench spark a media circus in this war satire set in Bosnia. (Dec. 7)

• "Pinero": Benjamin Bratt stars as hard-living Puerto Rican writer-actor Miguel Pinero. (Dec. 7)

• "Iris": Judi Dench and Kate Winslet play writer Iris Murdoch at different stages in her career. (Dec. 14)

• "Lantana": A detective (Anthony LaPaglia) fights personal demons on a missing-person case. (Dec. 14)

• "Last Orders": Michael Caine, Helen Mirren and Bob Hoskins in a tale of friends and family's recollections of a loved one. (Dec. 14)

• "The Royal Tenenbaums": A family of failed geniuses reunites. Gene Hackman, Anjelica Huston, Gwyneth Paltrow and Ben Stiller star. (Dec. 14)

• "Gosford Park": Murder, Robert Altman-style, on a British estate. (Dec. 26)

• "Monster's Ball": Billy Bob Thornton is an executioner involved with a condemned man's wife (Halle Berry). (Dec. 26)

• "Charlotte Gray": Cate Blanchett plays a novice British spy who finds romance in France during World War II. (Dec. 28)

• "Dark Blue World": Czech pilots fight in the skies against Nazis and on the ground against each other over a woman. (Dec. 28)

• "I Am Sam": Sean Penn as a retarded man and Michelle Pfeiffer as his attorney in a custody fight for his daughter. (Dec. 28)

• "Beauty and the Beast": A big-screen Imax reissue of the Disney animated musical. (Jan. 1)