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Oevar-e and Rade Serbedzija.
(Beechwood, Carmike)
SPROUT WINGS AND FLY (NR)
1983 A heartwarming documentary
about Appalachian tiddler Tommy
Jarrell. Directed by Les Blank. (Afhens-
Clarke Library)
THOMAS AND THE MAGIC RAIL
ROAD (G) The incredibly popular chil
dren's television series, “Thomas The
Tank Engine And
Friends’ and
“Shining Time
Station" hits the big-
screen in this part
live-action, part ani
mated new film.
Eleven-year old Lily
(Mara Wilson ol
Matilda) finds hersell
in the scenic town of
Shining Time atter
she takes the wrong
train on a visit to see
her grandpa (Peter
Fonda), a once
happy railway engi
neer who now lives a
solitary life. In
Shining Time, Lily
meets Mr. Conductor
(Alec Baldwin) and
embarks with him on
an adventure via the Magic Railroad to
an island toy world. (Rebecca Lake)
(Beechwood. Carmike)
WHAT LIES BENEATH (R) Director
Robert Zemekis' (Contact, Forrest
Gump) troublesome supernatural thriller
starts out like a creepy love letter to
Hitchcock, but suffers from too many
preposterous contnvances and eventu
ally ends up like a Friday The 13th
sequel. Micheile Pfeifler and Harrison
Ford are apparently a wealthy, happily
marned Vermont couple, but trouble
comes after their daughter's exit to col
lege. The film effectively builds up to
some very frightening moments—
shifting from eerily slow-moving scenes
set in silent, empty foyers and steam-
filled bathrooms to extreme action and
horror—but unfortunately relies too
heavily on the new trick of startling the
audience with a loud, sudden blast of
orchestral accentuation. Clark Gregg’s
flaky script could have used a few
rewrites as well. You'll either love it or
hate it. With Diana Scarwid. Joe Morton
and Amber Valletta (Beechwood.
Carmike)
WHERE THE HEART IS (PG-13'
Natalie Portman plays a perky, pregnant
teen stranded by her hick boyfriend at a
Wal-Mart in a small Oklahoma town
With Ashley Judd, Stockard Channing,
Joan Cusack. James Fram and Keith
David. Ends Thursday. (Mall)
X-MEN (PG-13) Based on the popular
Marvel Comics comic hook series,
director Bryan Singer's (The Usual
Suspects) latest is ar. entertaining but
slightly unbalanced first entry in what is
certain to become a sci-fi superhero
franchise. The movie spends a lot of
lime introducing its audience to each
character and offers more than a lew
heavy-handed thematic overtures to the
Holocaust, human evolution and neo-
McCarthysm. The two main characters
are misfit “superior" humans who, for
some reason or other, have obtained
and hai.^essed special powers such as
telepathy, telekinesis,
extraordinary phys
ical strength or more
violent talents At the
center of the story
are Rogue (Anna
Paquin), a confused
young woman afraid
of her power to
absorb the memories
of others by touch
and Wolverine (Hugh
Jackman), a gruff
tough guy with a
complicated past,
keen senses and a
skeleton enhanced
by unbreakable
metal. The good
guys, led by
Professor X (Patrick
Stewart), include
Jean Grey (Famke
Janssen). Cyclops (James Marsden),
and Storm (Halle Berry). The villains are
led by Professor Xs old friend-turned-
liend Magneto (Ian McKellan). and
include Toad (Ray Park). Sabretooth
(Tyler Mane) and Mystique (Rebecca
Romijn-S:amos). Whew Much of the
script is smart and brisk with few corny
one-liners, and the story gradually
builds great intensity, but the final
scenes are a bit anticlimactic and rid
dled with lame fight sequences P ans
will love this. Others may frown in con
fusion. (Beechwood. Carmike.
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