J Ann- Roy Scheider co-star in 52 Pick-Up, an another filmization of a novel by popular mystery writer El- more Leonard (Stick, Heat). Compiled by Jimmy Summers, Greg Ptacek, Sharon J. Pang and Victor Davis. * 'NIGHT MOTHER-When autumn arrives Hollywood forgets about the silliness of summer movies and gets serious. Boy, do they ever. This one is about an unhappy woman who methodi- cally prepares to commit suicide while her infirm mother desperately begs her to reconsider. Based on the Pulitzer Prize-winning stage play and starring Sissy Spacek and Anne Bancroft. * BLUE VELVET-A thriller about a young man ina small town who stumbles into a mystery involving murder and sex (not your normal gar- den-variety type sex, either). David Lynch (who else?) directed. * THE NAME OF THE ROSE-Based on the novel that everybody bought and carried to the beach (but few seemed actually to read), this murder mystery set in a 14th-century monastery stars Sean Connery and F. Murray Abraham. * THE MEN'S CLUB-Roy Scheider, Treat Williams, Frank Langella, Harvey Keitel and more names than we could ever imagine fitting into this little space make up the cast of a drama about men who gather to talk about, complain about, fight about and scream about women. * CROCODILE DUNDEE-A superhuman crocodile hunter from the Australian outback finds himself on a different kind of adventure 0 a * FOREIGN BODY-Victor Banerjee, whose last English-language movie was Passage to In- dia, takes on a big change of pace in this comedy about a refugee from Calcutta who poses as a doctor in London. * RATBOY-Sondra Locke directed and stars in this variation on the "Tarzan" legend. The title should give you a clue to what exactly that variation is. * HALF MOON STREET-Sigourney Weaver plays a London resident whose moon- lighting as a call girl gets her involved in some nasty intrigue. Michael Caine co-stars as one of her clients. * CHILDREN OF A LESSER GOD-William Hurt stars in this adaptation of the Tony award- winnning stage play about a teacher at a school for the deaf, who finds himself falling in love with a deaf woman. * PEGGY SUE GOT MARRIED-Kathleen Turner stars in this fantasy about a woman who bumps her head, wakes up and finds herself re- living her high school days. It all sounds like it could resemble last year's Back to the Future, but with Francis Ford Coppola serving as direc- tor, all bets are off. * TOUGH GUYS-Old buddies Burt Lancas- ter and Kirk Douglas are reunited to play another couple of old buddies-two once-notorious train robbers who are released into a strange new world after spending 35 years in jail. * HOOSIERS-Gene Hackman plays a zeal- ous high school basketball coach in Indiana, where basketball is slightly more important than life itself. Barbara Hershey co-stars. * THE COLOR OF MONEY-Tom Cruise and Paul Newman star in this "sequel" to the film classic, The Hustler. Martin Scorsese is the director. * 'ROUND MIDNIGHT-An all-star collec- tion of jazz artists, including saxophonist Dexter Gordon, double as actors and performers in this drama about an expatriate musician in 1950s Paris. Herbie Hancock, who is also in the cast, served as musical director on a soundtrack that features both new and classic numbers. * THE MISSION-Robert DeNiro and Jere- my Irons star in this story about Jesuit priests who find themselves in the middle of a territorial argument between Portugal and Spain, set in 1750 South America. No, it's not a musical comedy. * SOUL MAN-One of the odder-and sure to be controversial-plot lines of the season. This comedy stars C. Thomas Howell asa young man who must pretend to be black to get into Harvard. Rae Dawn Chong and James Earl Jones co-star. * TRICK OR TREAT-Ozzy Osbourne and Gene Simmons take a few shots at their critics in this comic/rock 'n' roll/horror film about Satanic messages hidden in heavy metal music. Ozzy, or so we're told, plays a fire and brimstone minis- ter. Yes, that's right. A minister. * JUMPIN' JACK FLASH-How on earth can Whoopi Goldberg follow up her debut in The Color Purple? How about this adventure-comedy about a bored bank employee who suddenly re- a a w W. Goldberg usually choose to play timid charac- ters? Just asking. Here, Goldberg operates a computer that transfers money between continents, a boring job that she enlivens by passing cute messages to other operators in her bank's globe-girdling network. Suddenly her screen blips outa bulletin from a spy who styles himself "Jumpin' Jack Flash." Since this is the movies, Goldberg gath- ers her gumption and sets out to rescue "Jack" from the KGB, the CIA and maybe even the PTA. Her sidekicks in this exploit are steady Stephen Collins and ditsy Carol Kane. Equally fantastic is Peggy Sue Got Married. And yes, the film gets its title from a Buddy Holly song by the same name. Kathleen Turner says of her part (which she took over from Debra Winger after Winger was laid low by back pains): "Peggy Sue is a Midwestern hometown lady with two kids. She married her high school sweetheart. She goes to a high school reunion, faints and wakes up back in high school. She thinks she's still in the time she was before she fainted. Mentally, Peggy's still the same but now she looks 18. When a friend offers her a ciga- rette, she says, 'I quit years ago.' The reply: 'Huh?' " The only point of going to school reunions is to brag, but Peggy Sue's predicament is like Marty McFly's: she can't tell and if she did nobody would believe her. It's a plot that undoubtedly appealed to studio executives who were fans of Back to the Future's grosses. But their choice of Francis Ford Coppola as director of another high school movie (remember Rumblefish?) suggests that ads for Peggy Sue should carry a disclaimer like, "Warning: Art Attack." As for Turner, she says, 'I've been wanting to play a nice woman who is everything she seems to be." Coppola's nephew, Nicholas Cage, co-stars. Mad Max meets Indiana Jones in Crocodile Dundee, a comedy oddity from Australia. It stars Paul Hogan, seen widely here in the commercials for "Fa-estahs La-eggah." Hogan plays a ruffian from Australia's wild Northern Territories who entrances an American newspaper heiress, played by newcomer Linda Koslowski. The Ho- gan character, a tracker-hunter-fisher who oper- ates a tour service called Never-Never Safaris, got his nickname when he barely retrieved his leg from a crocodile. New York seems just as dan- gerous as his jungle home when he encounters his stateside sweetheart's dad, who has a par- ticular marital fate in mind for her. What elevates Crocodile Dundee from the mass of intriguing little foreign movies and justi- fies a big release campaign by Paramount is the movie's record-breakieg success in Australia this spring and the magnetism of Hogan. Hogan is an irreverent man-of-the-people type who ment directly from a job helping build the Sydney harbor bridge to being Australia's premier TV star. By all accounts he's like Johnny Carson would be if he were Benny Hill. . Fellow Australian Bryan Brown plays a swash- buckling merchant-pirate in the long-delayed film version of Tai-Pan. The movie extracts all the ro- mance it can from the massive best-seller, con- densing the intricate intrigue of James Clavell's saga about the founding of Hong Kong. Chinese- born actress Joan Chen plays Brown's beautiful and elegant concubine. The first major Western movie made in China, Tar-Pan was financed by Americans, produced by Italians and directed by a Canadian. The Chi- nese provided the cast of thousands and a mass of red tape during production. "Making movies should be fun, not a row," complained producer Rafaella De Laurentiis while she was horsewhip- ping the bureaucratic Cantonese trying to get the cameras to roll. Tai-Pan did get finished, and the good news is that it was pulled from its original position on the summer release schedule. That means the stu- dio figures the movie is too interesting to be a major hit among the double-digit IQ set. Those who saw Bryan Brown as the imaginative special effects man in the sleeper hit F/Xlast spring will appreciate another chance to see this rough- and-ready performer. * Bart Mills is a Los Angeles-based free-lancer who writes about film. w FOR COMPUTER TERMINALS! Here's an ideal, famous brand terminal at an unusually low price! It hooks up to mainframes or PC's that use asyn- chronous communications. Interfaces with UNIX* systems. FOR EXECUTIVE USE! 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