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G.I. JANE: Jordan O'Neil (Demi
Moore) has been an admired Naval
Intelligence officer, but volunteers for
SEAL training to join the elite com-
mando force. Why? She'll be a pio-
neer, but the drive to do that seems to
be in her blood. Not her hormones -
let's get that straight!. The script (ini-
tially by a woman, novelist Danielle
Alexandra) explicitly stresses that
Jordan is not lesbian.
After a sisterly picnic on the beach
with some military women, she is
rushed quickly into a love scene with
her boyfriend (Jason Beghe, a junior
officer version of Ed Harris), who is
mentsh enough not to mind her being
buff, bald and battered. Mostly, we get
the insane ordeal of SEAL's camp
(rain, mud, pain, exhaustion, then
more of the same).
Cast: Demi Moore, Viggo
Mortensen, Anne Bancroft, Jason
Beghe, Scott Wilson. Rated R.
(Reviewed by David Elliott) **I/ 2
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from his parents, She's So Lovely is
jammed with terrific performances. It
also wobbles waywardly, because the
story is meant to anchor firmly into
the besotted, romantic performances
of Sean Penn and Robin Wright Penn.
The movie is a bouquet to John,
who died in 1989. Surely that's why
Penn, John Travolta and Gerard
Depardieu were executive producers
and why so many fine actors (includ-
ing James Gandolfini, Debi Mazar,
Chloe Webb) turn up, humming with
commitment no matter how modest
the role.
Cast: Sean Penn, Robin Wright
Penn, John Travolta, Harry Dean
Stanton, Debi Mazar, Gena Rowlands,
James Gandolfini, Chloe Webb, Burt
Young. Rated R. (Reviewed by David
Elliott)
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LEAVE IT TO BEAVER: The
Cleavers have, of course, been recast.
Janine Turner is mommy June, a
Stepford blonde still wearing pearls as
she bustles primly through domestic
routines. As endlessly put-upon, fret-
ting but forgiving Ward, Christopher
McDonald is a clot of sitcom virility
sag. Erik von Detten is spunky teen
Wally, adored by adorable Karen
(Erika Christensen), pestered by dorky
Eddie (Adam Zolotin).
In the key role of the junior brother
who tends to foul up with infallible
cuteness, Cameron Finley is more
chipmunk than Beaver. Inevitably,
Ward wants him to play football.
Beaver is about half the size of any
other player, but he still plows past
some kids before messing up big time.
Dad feels hurt, yet is soon smiling like
a lobotomized Gandhi. June burbles
about "my little football star," and
Beaver snaps back from gridiron
humiliation that would haunt most
males the rest of their days.
Wired as affectionate commercial-
ism, the film is a pert blend of the
`50s and '90s. True to 1995's soft hit
"The Brady Bunch Movie," neutered
nostalgia is sprinkled with winks of
satire that tickle our hipness.
Cast: Christopher McDonald,
Janine Turner, Cameron Finley, Erik
von Detten. Rated PG (Reviewed by
David Elliott)
MIMIC: A pretty good
giant-scary-bugs-in-the-subway flick.
Entomologist Susan Tyler (Mira
Sorvino) and her husband, Peter
Mann (Jeremy Northam), short-cir-
cuit a plague by introducing genetical ;'
ly engineered bugs into the sub-streets
of New York. The insects carry bio-
agents that wipe out plague-carrying
cockroaches, and they're designed to
be infertile. No problemo.
Three years later, Susan comes
across a disturbing sample: A buglike
creature as big as a rat. And it's a babe
Uh-oh. Doesn't take long for Susan
and Peter to enter the subway system
for a look-see. Peter goes with a transi
cop (Charles S. Dutton) and an asso-
ciate (Josh Brolin). From this point,
Mimic devolves into a stylish rehash o
Aliens.
Cast: Mira Sorvino, Jeremy
Northam, Josh Brolin, Giancarlo
Giannini, Charles S. Dutton, F.
Murray Abraham, Alexander
Goodwin. Rated R. (Reviewed by
Arthur Salm)
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Movie reviews are written by
David Elliott, film critic for fbe
San Diego Llnion-Tribune and
other staff writers for Copley
News Service. David Elliott is a
former film critic for the USA
Today and for the Chicago Daily
News, where he worked with
Roger Ebert.