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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 S LTS PRIVATE DINING ROOM FOR YOUR NEXT AFFAIR Ste Cif dition, lovingly inherited by Nick 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) Fax 967-6095 CATERING FOR ALL OCCASIONS L DAILY LUNCH SPECIAL 7 ITEMS TO CHOOSE FROM INCLUDES FRIES & s POP 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) * 11 4 Stars 3 Stars 2 Stars Stars Poor Forget It No Stars 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.