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June 27, 2001 Page B2 llu rtlan ò (Observer «FOCUS Summer’s Biggest Blockbusters Premiering Now: Lara Croft: Tomb Raider Synopsis: Lara Croft, who is carrying on her deceased father s work as an English archaeologist/antiquities hunter, uncovers an ancient puzzle that she msut solve before it’s too late. C en tu ries b e fo re ,a m y ste rio u s, otherworldly object with a god like power to alter time was split in two and the pieces bur ied in tombs on opposite ends of the earth. Jolie must race against time to find both halves o f the object and destroy it before a leader of an evil secret society get his hands on it. Dr. Dolittle 2 G reyhound R acing May 4 * October 13, 2001 Post Times Wednesday - Saturday 7 00 pm Sundays/Hol ¡days 1:00 pm N£ 223rd & Glisan Wood Village. Oregon G R E Y H O U N D (503) 667-7700 www rnulmotnahgreyhoondpork com F ree P arking and A dmission Synopsis: The continuing tale of the doctor who can talk to the animals - this time, it’s Dolittle versus Darwin when the animals launch a labor strike to protect their forest from unscrupulous human developers. Dolittle quickly comes up with a plan: populate the forest with a species o f animal that the law protects. He finds a perfect candidate when he comes across Ava, a lone Pacific Western bear living in the condemned forest. To provide her with a mate, Dolittle turns to Archie, a wise-cracking, fast-food loving, circus performing bear. Can Dolittle play matchmaker to these two mismatched bears before it’s too late? Genre(s): comedy, adaptation, sequel, remake; Rating: MPAA PG 13; Runtim e: 100 mins.; D istributor(s): 20th Century Fox (USA). Atlantis: The Lost Empire Synopsis: The year is 1914. Milo Thatch is a lowly museum cartographer and linguistics expert who knows the whereabouts of Atlantis. He isn’t taken seriously, however, until an eccentric billion aire funds an expedition based on Miko’s late grandfather s journal about the lost city. Milo joins a motley group o f mercenaries, led by Commander Rourke, on a dangerous trip through the ocean, where they discover a thriving civilization ruled by the King and his beautiful warrior daughter, Princess Kida. It’s Atlantis, and it’s been kept alive by a crystal energy hidden deep within the city, which thrills Commander Rourke - his evil plan is to steal the crystals. Now it’s up to Milo and the others to save the city from certain doom. SWORDFISH Synopsis: Gabriel Shear has set his sights on a government slush fund established several years ago by the Drug Enforcement Agency in a money-laundering scheme, now worth nearly $10 billion. In order to pull o ff the heist, he needs to find someone who can get into the bank’s computers quickly enough to access the DEA money while delet ing all records o f the tra n s fer. Shear is left with one option - S tanley Jobson - recently re leased from ja il a fte r s e rv in g two years for hacking into an FBI p ro g ra m that performed unethical surveillance on regular Americans. Jobson is reluctant to do the job even after Shear offers him $10 million because the terms o f his parole prevent him from coming within 50 yards o f a computer. So Shear comes up with an offer that he cannot refuse - a chance to be reunited with his daughter Holly. Jobson’s • LANCE CROUTHER WANDA SYRER and CHRIS RDCR Too cool for words S tarts F riday , J une 29 boozy ex-wife took Holly and m ar ried an X-rated film director during his hiatus from society, leaving Jobson to live alone in a trailer. With everything to gain, Jobson accepts the deal and enters Shear’s world where people are obviously not what they seem. A.I. Synopsis: Sometime in the dis tant future, after the polar icecaps have melted, major flooding has devastated most major cities and the world is now run by robots with highly sophisticated artificial intelli gence. In the midst of it all stands one boy and a robotic teddy bear who long for something more... Genre(s): sci-fi, drama; Rating: MPAA; Runtim e: 73 m ins.; Distributor(s): Warner Bros (USA). US (WSTPOflr T6 Premiering 503-775-0000 CENTUWTHEATRES « E 8 2 N D DIGITAL Soon: Cats and Dogs Synopsis: The age-old turf war between cats and dogs gets more intense when felines discover that humans may be on the brink of developing a vaccine for dog aller gies. Dogs, naturally, are all for it, but cats make it their mission to prevent the breakthrough. Genre(s): anim ation, anim al, liv e -a c tio n ; R atin g: MPAA; D istr ib u to r (s): W arner Bros (USA); Theatrical Release: July 4. SPECIAL ENGAGEMENT • NO PASSES • HAM CALLTHEATRE FOR SHOWTIMES PG-131 PARENTS STRONGLY CAUTIONED «P» IS' S u n M it w lil May 0« l u ip y a p r iif lot CWMrwi Undw 13 « « • [SEX RELATED MATERIAL, LANGUAGE A DRUG CONTENT ¡a, F o r r a t in g r e a s o n s , g o to w w w .t ilm r a t ln g s .c o m . WWW. pOOtîetaiig. C0H1 SOUNDTRACK ALBUM AVAILABLE ON HOllYWOOD RECORDS w Kiss of the Dragon Synopsis: A Chinese intelligence officer goes to Paris on assignment and becomes embroiled in a deadly conspiracy. G enre(s): m artial arts; Distributor(s): Miramax; Theatri cal Release: July 6. hi «CTW1 «LMMÜI C o n t in u e s on P age B 4