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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
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Wood Village. Oregon
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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 ,
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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).
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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
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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
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