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 The following movies are scheduled to open between now and the end of August. All opening dates are subject to change.
July 23 "Drop Dead Gorgeous." Kirstie Alley, Ellen Barkin, Kirsten Dunst and Denise Richards star in this mockumentary about a small town's obsession with its teenage beauty contest. "The Haunting." In Jan De Bont's supernatural thriller, Catherine Zeta-Jones, Lili Taylor and Owen Wilson enter Hill House, a scary mansion, thinking they have signed up for a sleep disorder study. They're dead wrong. "Inspector Gadget." A live-action comedy for kids. Matthew Broderick plays the hapless security guard who's literally blown to pieces by nasty old Rupert Everett (the Claw), before being reconstructed as Inspector Gadget, a detective with an arsenal of sophisticated gizmos and gadgetry.
July 28 "Deep Blue Sea." Director Renny Harlin is rarely far away from the big-movie action. "Jaws" meets "Jurassic Park" when a research team – including Samuel L. Jackson, LL Cool J and Saffron Burrows – finds itself trapped in a floating laboratory with the scientifically engineered mako sharks they have been creating.
July 30 "Runaway Bride." The "Pretty Woman" team, including Richard Gere, Julia Roberts and director Garry Marshall, returns for this romantic comedy. Roberts plays a bride who has dumped three grooms at the altar, and Gere is the reporter assigned to write about her.
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Aug. 6 "The Thomas Crown Affair." A remake of the 1968 Steve McQueen-Faye Dunaway classic, this high-class love affair matches self-made billionaire Pierce Brosnan against Rene Russo, a brilliant investigator who suspects Brosnan of stealing a priceless Monet. It's directed by John McTiernan. "The Iron Giant." Hogarth Hughes is a 9-year-old boy from Maine who discovers a 50-foot robot in his back yard in this animated feature from Warner Bros. It's based on the novel of the same name by England's late poet laureate Ted Hughes. "My Life So Far." In this coming-of-age story, a 10-year-old boy learns the ways of love, passion and jazz when he meets his uncle's fiancee (Irene Jacob, the woman from "Red"), a seductive Frenchwoman. Also features Colin Firth, Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio and Malcolm McDowell. "Mystery Men." In this crime-fighting action-comedy, seven citizens – including Ben Stiller, Hank Azaria, William H. Macy and Paul Reubens – sign up for protective duty when the city's superhero and defender (Greg Kinnear) is captured. "Trick." Tori Spelling plays the friend of Gabriel (Christian Campbell), a gay man, who dreams of writing musicals for Broadway and goes through a big change in his life when he meets Mark (John Paul Pitoc), a go-go dancer.
Aug. 11 "In Too Deep." When detective Jeffrey Cole (Omar Epps) goes undercover to bust a big-time gangster (LL Cool J), he becomes a little too morally connected with the man he's supposed to be bringing to justice. Also features Pam Grier.
Aug. 13 "Brokedown Palace." Claire Danes and Kate Beckinsale go to Bangkok and get more than a vacation when they're befriended by an Australian stranger and walk into a setup. Before they know it, both women are facing heroin drug charges and more than 30 years in a grim Thai prison. "Detroit Rock City." The year is 1978. And that KISS concert may be sold out, but four superfan teenagers are determined to get into the show anyway. The comedy was produced by the band's own Gene Simmons, who also appears in the film with the original band members, as well as Edward Furlong, Natasha Lyonne and Sam Huntington. "Mr. Accident." Yahoo Serious, a sort of Australian Pauly Shore, plays an incompetent maintenance man at the world's biggest egg-processing factory, who falls in love with Sunday Valentine (Helen Dallimore), a kooky being who believes there is intelligent life in outer space.
Aug. 20 "Mickey Blue Eyes." In this romantic comedy, Hugh Grant is a debonair Englishman who runs an auction house in New York and enjoys life with his girlfriend (Jeanne Tripplehorn). When he gets serious with her, however, he realizes she's connected to the mob via her father (James Caan). "Blue Streak." When jewel thief Martin Lawrence returns to the construction site where he left a hidden stash of precious diamonds three years before, he learns the place has turned into a police precinct. Posing as a detective so he can find his riches, Lawrence is forced to play a cop in drug busts with a rookie partner (Luke Wilson) and actually starts solving cases. "Next to You." Melissa Joan Hart ("Sabrina, the Teenage Witch") stars as the popular one in this high school comedy about geeks, jocks and cool people. "Teaching Mrs. Tingle." Miramax Pictures toned down the old title ("Killing Mrs. Tingle") for Kevin ("Scream") Williamson's dark comedy involving a high-achieving student (Katie Holmes) who gets caught up in a cheating controversy – apparently engineered by her teacher, Mrs. Tingle (Helen Mirren). "Twin Falls Idaho." Real life twins Mark and Michael Polish star in this very strange romance about two brothers who share a third leg and a hooker girlfriend (Michele Hicks).
Aug. 27 "The Muse." America's most underrated satirist, Albert Brooks, plays a Hollywood writer who's suffering from lack of inspiration. He encounters Sharon Stone, a modern Muse who has set up shop in Southern California. "The 13th Warrior." Director John ("Die Hard") McTiernan adapts one of Michael Crichton's best books ("Eaters of the Dead"), a visit to the world of fiery warriors who eat every living being in their path. It stars Antonio Banderas and Omar Sharif. "The Astronaut's Wife." On a routine space mission, astronaut Johnny Depp and his crew experience a freak accident. Rushed back to Earth and his wife (Charlize Theron), Depp is revived from unconsciousness only to discover that something truly horrible happened out there.
Also in August "The Lovers on the Bridge." An offbeat, riverside love affair starts up in Paris when Juliette Binoche, an artist on the street, falls in love with a fire eater called Alex (Denis Lavant) who lives on the closed-down bridge, the Pont Neuf. "Bowfinger." Steve Martin teams with Eddie Murphy for the first time on screen. Martin's an ambitious, desperate film producer with a radical plan to make it big, and Murphy's the goofy nerd he tries to film. "Stigmata." Patricia Arquette plays a hairdresser who suffers disturbing episodes in which terrible things happen to her. Gabriel Byrne, a Vatican investigator, comes to probe the mysterious force that seems to have taken her over. "Dudley Do-Right." Brendan Fraser stars in this live-action version of Jay Ward's classic animated television series, along with Sarah Jessica Parker and Alfred Molina. "Hoofbeats." Jean-Jacques ("The Bear") Annaud produced this visual story about a horse's coming of age from young foal to magnificent stallion, set against the desert of Namibia. "The Minus Man." Owen Wilson plays a serial killer who travels across the country, icing anyone who complains about their lives. This movie, which features Janeane Garofalo, Brian Cox, Mercedes Ruehl and Dwight Yoakam, also marks the acting debut of Sheryl Crow. "Universal Soldier: The Return." Jean-Claude Van Damme returns as soldier Luc Deveraux, who must take decisive action when the S.E.T.H. (Michael Jai White), the supercomputer in charge of the soldiers, turns crazy. "Plunkett and Macleane." Robert Carlyle (from "The Full Monty" and "Trainspotting") and Jonny Lee Miller (also from "Trainspotting") play two notorious highwaymen in England during the 18th century.
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Michelle Williams (left) and Kristen Dunst gave caught up in Watergate during "Dick."
(Columbia)