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annual trip to Punxsatawney, for Groundhog Day. A snowstorm and cosmic intervention causes Murray to experience the same day over and over again, giving him the opportunity to do things right after doing them incorrectly. (PG HOMEWARD BOUND: THE INCREDIBLE JOURNEY. A cheery updating of the 1963 Disney live-action journey of three household pets two dogs and a cat across a danger-filled landscape in search of their owners. (G ick-k) LOVE FIELD.

Michelle Pfeiffer plays a Dallas housewife in 1963 Key: Poor. 1 flick of the week Is Falling Down, an Intellectually sloppy, rebellious working man's adventure film that's little more than a set piece for Michael Douglas playing out a revenge-of-the-nerds fantasy. Douglas plays a laid-off defense company employee who snaps while stuck in LA freeway traffic. He then goes on a physical version of the same kind of rampage that fueled the more intellectually honest Network. First, he attacks a Korean-owned convenience store because its prices are too high.

Later, he busts up a fast-food restaurant because they won't serve him breakfast five minutes after the 11:30 a.m. deadline. These, you'll agree, are not the burning issues of our time, but both store and restaurant "blow up real good." And explosions not Ideas are what Failing Down is all about. The film does have a couple of side stories, one hackneyed, one promising but unfulfilled. Robert Duvall plays a desk-bound detective out to catch Douglas before he does some real damage.

And wouldn't you know it, this is all occurring on Du-vall's last day of work groan before retirement. Much more interesting is Douglas' busted marriage to Barbara Hershey, who gives the freshest performance in the film. They needed more scenes together. Set in Los Angeles, Falling Down Is clearly at attempt to exploit the frustrations of riot-weary, white Los Angeles. Korean shop owners and Latino gang members are the bad guys.

This is a very cynical movie. (R irVi) ALIVE. A rousing, convincing treatment of the real-life story of the South American rugby team members who survived a 1972 plane crash in the Andes by choosing cannibalism over starva- tion. (R ARMY OF DARKNESS. An inventively made but ultimately boring adventure film from director Sam Raimi (Darkman).

Inspired by the Back to the Future movies and the stop-action adventure films of Ray Harryhausen, Raimi gives us the story of a supermarket sales clerk (Bruce Campbell) thrust back in time to the Middle Ages. Campbell's character is a complete stiff, and so is everyone else he meets who isn't a special effect. Embeth Davidtz, as the lady who's waiting, doesn't have a sexy scene in the movie. Teen-age boys may enjoy the sight of swooping witches, charging skeletons and a 20th century chainsaw, but everyone else will be quickly exhausted. (R Vi) THE CEMETERY CLUB.

A high-gloss version of The Golden Girls, with the issue-of-the-week involving widows learning to embrace life more than death. That's a valuable lesson, but the route taken here involves more gimmicks and guffaws than credible scenes. Ellen Burstyn, Olympia Dukakis and Diane Ladd play the Jewish mourners. (PG-13 -kir) THE CRYING GAME. A stunning drama about what constitutes real courage.

In the setting of warfare in Northern Ireland, writer-director Neil Jordan argues that it is more difficult to maintain fidelity to a friend or lover than to engage in guerrilla warfare. This is the story of a sweet-tempered IRA activist who befriends a captive British soldier and then his lover. (R GROUNDHOG DAY. Bill Murray's latest comedy, and a fresh one at that. Murray plays a bombastic TV weatherman making his In soft ana absorbent ScotTissue Single roll bathroom tissue.

Limit 2. who idolizes Jacqueline Kennedy to the point of even dressing the same way. When JFK is slain in her hometown, she travels by bus to the funeral and befriends a mysterious black man (Dennis Haysbert). Much of the film's drama depends on whether he Is friend or foe, which isn't much of an issue. Another problem is that Pfeiffer's mannered performance seems to stand apart from the rest of the movie.

Haysbert, oddly enough, turns out to be the one to watch. (PG-13 PASSION FISH. A powerful interpersonal drama about a bitter pair of individuals thrown together, much to their mutual dislike, in John Sayles' latest film. Mary McDonnell from Dances With Wolves stars as a New York soap opera actress who is crippled in a car accident and returns to her Louisiana childhood home to drown herself in self-pity and alcohol. Assisting her is a nurse (Alfre Woodard) who is running away from her own set of problems.

In other hands, this story would be a heroic exercise in the triumph of the human spirit, but Sayles' script is packed with more credible emotions, including anger, self-doubt and need. Both McDonnell and Woodard are given dialogue that is worthy of characters who are as intelligent as they themselves seem to be. That is Indeed rare in film today. (R RESERVOIR DOGS. A much-acclaimed revisionist gangster film that I found to have more style than substance.

We follow a half-dozen thieves as their jewel heist goes violently wrong. Quentin Tarantino's debut directing job acknowledges the sloppiness and silences that are typically squeezed out of most crime films, but we get the point early on and the remainder is macho posturing. An extremely violent film. (R ir-kVi) UNTAMED HEART. A fresh love story that establishes Marisa Tomei, from My Cousin Vinny, as a major talent.

She plays a working-class Minneapolis waitress who takes a liking to the sullen dishwasher (Christian Slater) in the back room. He turns out to be more complicated than he seems, but it is the joy in Tomei's face and heart that make this movie work. (PG-13 Mi) Tribune Media Services Arm Hammer Baking Soda Efferdent 20 tablets, 2-layered. OUde Scotch Tape Trump Cards ByHoyie. Purina Premium Cat Food Dinner for cats.

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Li IS' I i 1 Digable Planets "Reachin' (A New Refutation of Time and Space), PendulumElektra Records. Reviewed by staff writer Scott Miley. Jl.1 A hip-hop hybrid i 0f pm Dawn's ethereality and Deee-Lite's hipness was bound to happen. Thankfully, Digable Planets has the skills to back it up. j.

The New York trio was raised to respect post-World War II bebop and its imaginative power. Its members don't drop names like Miles Davis, Lionel Hampton and George Orwell just for cool rhymes. These are inspirations for Digable Planets. So it's not unsubstantiated bragging when they say, "We be to rap what key be to lock" on the first bop-pop single, Rebirth of Slick (Cool Like Dat), which samples Art Blakey's Stretchin'. Even Jimi Hendrix would approve of their 1960s psychedelia melding with '90s hip-hop in Jimmi Digging Cats.

They don't avoid controversy, but it's tempered with cool thoughts; Butterfly (who shares raps with female Ladybug) offers a male view of pro-choice beliefs in La Femme Fetal. The language jumps with a beatnik vibrancy. It's so alive that you feel hurt, almost left out, if you don't catch the rap the first time. But by the time you get the lyrics down, Reachin'wiW already be a part of you. ELEKTRA ENTERTAINMENT Digable Planets members Doodlebug (left), Ladybug and Butterfly.

3 bring us music that seems instantly familiar and so easy to listen to. The Nuclear Whales Saxophone Orchestra "Gone Fission, Whaleco Music. Reviewed by staff writer Jay Harvey. A A What pluck and re-T sourcefulness this ensemble has simply to have formed in the first place let alone having the IN THE INDIANAPOLIS AREA Including: Carmel, Greenwood, Zionsville and New Palestine Monday thru Friday: Call us with your prescription by 1 p.m. and we'll deliver to your home by 7 p.m.

Saturday: Call us by Noon; we'll deliver to your home by 7 p.m. mXJ) best new male vocalist honors last year from the Academy of Country Music. His new release offers a touch of that tenderness on When a Woman Cries. But it only leaves listeners longing for more. Dionne Warwick "Friends Can Be Lovers, "Arista Records.

Reviewed by staff writer Diana Penner. AAA Dionne Warwick brings us two little surprises at the beginning and almost at the end of her newest release: She begins with Sunny Weather Lover, her first collaboration with old pals Burt Bacharach and Hal David in 17 years; the penultimate song on the album is a cover of Fragile, by Sting. Sting? Bacharach and David, working with Dionne again? All on the same album? Yes, and that's not all. Love Will Find a Way, an optimistic little ballad, is written by Warwick's son David Elliot and his partner, Terry Steele. Continuing the family-oriented theme, the song is a duet with Whitney Houston, Warwick's cousin.

She draws on her son again for Til the End of Time, and then reaches across the ocean to Japan to add an international touch with I Sing at Dawn. The combination of covers and new material, with greatly varied influences, all distills into comfortable, vintage Dionne Warwick. Warwick is able particularly with the BacharajhDavid revisitation to 1 mil cleverest tie-in of ensemble name and disc title in its genre. (But what is its Six saxophonists, playing the full family of the instruments fathered by Adolphe Sax, from sopranino to contrabass, trot out a variety of material here and perform it attractively. At length, the program gets to be a bit much.

The cuteness of the enterprise becomes overwhelming in a version of Tip Toe Through the Tulips, the cornball 1926 song associated with the lamentable Tiny Tim, featuring a mock-German vocal (wisely uncredited in the booklet) in a polka-band arrangement. An original, The ReelJig, jigs and reels into incoherence. On the plus side are arrangements of two 17th-century pieces, one each by John Jenkins and William Lawes, and a fine setting of Billy Strayhorn's Lush Life. Much of the disc, except for the ensemble's novelty itself, is bland. Perhaps the presence of a saxophonist in the Oval Office will give it a boost.

Star ratings: excellent; gpod; fair; poor Billy Dean "Fire in the Dark, LibertySBK Records. Reviewed by staff writer Gregory Weaver. Billy Dean is a great coun- try balladeer. Unfortunately, that's all he is. And his new release confirms his limitations.

Even mid-tempo numbers, such as the title cut, make his voice seem strained and unnatural. "Particularly disastrous are his remakes of two pop songs Dave Mason's We Just Disagree and James Taylor's Steam Roller. Taylor's macho blues song turns to mush under Dean's all-American-boy vocals. It's what might be expected if Donny Osmond tried to cover Bell Biv Devoe's Do Me. Dean does manage one passable mid-tempo tune, That's What I Like About Love.

And he deserves some credit for trying to do something other than lovesick, melancholy ballads. But he should remember the touching ballads and warm vocals at won him song, of the year and 17 EVUnutes of Heart Pounding Learn to recognize the early symptoms of a heart attack. FREE information and FREE loan videos at all Indianapolis area Hook's stores. Don't miss Headline on Channel 6, WRTV, March 17 at 8:00 P.M. I.