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Jjfs 34 THE RECORD movie CAPSULES FRIDAY, DECEMBER 16, 1988 Here's a look at films playing in the area, as reviewed by movie critic Lou Lumenick and others. The numbers refer to the theaters in the Movie Timetable on Page 38. 9, 23, 26, 27, 29, 34, 36, 43, 45, 40,56,61, 62, 63 the Australian outback. Her parents, Seventh-day Adventists, became the victims of a nasty gossip campaign, were hounded by the news media, and were finally prosecuted for murder for political reasons. Meryl Streep will almost certainly get an Oscar nomination as Mrs.

Chamberlain, who, though pregnant, was sentenced to life at hard labor; Sam Neill Is equally good as her husband. 120 min. PG-13: adult situations. 14,51,55 ERNEST SAVES CHRISTMAS Superior sequel to "Ernest Goes to Camp," wherein the bumbling country bumpkin springs Santa from Jail, collects the elves, and sends a replacement Santa on his way by Christmas Eve. Jim varney is truly funny in various disguises, and kids, who will have a hoot, can add a star.

(Mary Amoroso) 89 mln. PG. 19, 20, 24, 33, 48, 52, 55 45, 48, 51, 57 A COCOON: THE RETURN Pleasant sequel to the 1985 hit lacks the punch of the original, though there's some nice acting, especially by those two old pros, Hume Cronyn and Jessica Tandy. The seniors return to Earth from outer space on a rescue mission and have to make some hard choices about whether to stick around. Don Ameche, Wilford Brimley, Steve Guttenberg, and the rest of the original cast are back; Daniel Petrte has succeeded Ron Howard as director.

116 mln. PG. 1, 6, 13, 17, 34,39,45,48,51,58,60,65 CROSSINO DELANCEY Warm, funny comedy about a 33-year-old Manhattan woman (Amy Irving) whose elderly Jewish grandmother employs a matchmaker to fix her up with a Lower East Side pickle merchant (Peter Riegert). 98 min. PG: sexual suggestfve-ness.

60, 61 A CRY IN THE DARK Austere yet absorbing docudrama based on the true case of Azaria Chamberlain, a 6-week-old child who disappeared without a trace after an attack by a wild dog in powered businesswoman and mother. Dennis Quald and Jessica Lange are both great in their juicy roles, and director Taylor Hackford Officer and a presents the oldest cliches with shameless vigor; the football scenes are especially exciting. 122 min. profanity, adult situations. 30, 35, 47, 48,51 FRESH HORSES Romantic drama about an affianced college student obsessed with a rural girl who, according to the movie's publicists, "exudes languorous sensuality, seductive toughness, and enigmatic vulnerability." drew McCarthy and Molly Rlngwaid star under the direction of David Anspaugh 105 min.

PG-13. 67 THE LAND BEFORE TIME Imaginative, beautifully drawn animated feature set in prehistoric timesIt follows Llttlefoot and a group of other orphaned dinosaurs who band together and try to survive perils while searching for their parents. Funny, exciting, and Interesting enough for parents to sit through. Kids can add a star. 72 mln.

G. 1, 6, 15, 21, 23, 34,45,48.51,81,68 EVERYBODY'S ALL-AMERI CAN An old-fashioned, lustily romantic saga of a star college athlete and his Southern-belle wife spans the years 1956 to 1981: He declines Into paunchy middle age while she becomes a high- 1 NEW IN TOWN DIRTY ROTTEN SCOUNDRELS The season's most uproarious comedy offers the Inspired teaming of Steve Martin and Michael Calne as rival confidence men on the French Riviera. Each is trying to fleece a supposed heiress (Glenne Headly) to win a bet. Martin's amazing physical comedy (including a lengthy sequence In a wheelchair) is perfectly complemented by Caine's suavity in a superior remake of 1964's "Bedtime Story." Director Frank Oz Shop of handles the movie's endless double-crosses brilliantly and Barbara Harris, as a wealthy widow, is an added fillip. 108 mln.

PG: mild sexual Innuendo, a little bathroom humor. 7, 8, 12, 15, 21, 23, 26, 29, 34, 39, 41, 42, 45, 48, 61, 62, 66 RAIN MAN Reviewed on Page 32. 5, 4 iiSWSsSSiSiSiiiM CONTINUING Vi THE ACCUSED Powerful drama inspired by a real-life case In which a woman was gang-raped hi a tavern as a dozen onlookers cheered on her attackers. In this fiction alizatkm, an assistant district attorney (Kelly McGlllls) prosecutes the onlookers. Riveting, Oscar-worthy performance by Jodie Foster.

115 min. graphic but non-exploitative rape depiction, profanity. 6, 24, 34, 48,52,57 CHILD'S PLAY Thriller wherein a recently deceased mass murderer Is reincarnated as a youngster's talking doll. More silly than scary. With Catherine Hicks, Chris Sarandon.

96 min. graphic violence, profanity. 18, 20, 24, 34, Imts (mini fcV .4 "Ti -'''J i3IMrtliWlslf tsWuikxxM. iifentth- f'. (eir.i.