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American Pie. Some high school seniors make a pact to lose their virginity by prom night. (Universal)

Among Giants. Sparks fly when aloof Aussie Rachel Griffiths joins a crew painting power-line pylons in England. (Fox Searchlight)

Bandits. That’s the name of a rock band formed by four female prisoners whose escape and flight through Germany make them cult heroines and chart stars. (Stratosphere Entertainment)

Black Cat White Cat. Bosnian director Emir Kusturica spins a tale about two Gypsy families entangled in a series of misadventures. (October Films)

Black Mask. Martial arts star Jet Li fights it out with an evil force. (Artisan Entertainment)

The Boys. This story of a man dealing with upheaval in his family after his release from prison raked in the Australian Film Institute Awards nominations. (Stratosphere Entertainment)

The Bumblebee Flies Anyway. Jennifer Sarja adapted Richard Cormier’s novel about a boy (Elijah Wood) who’s the control subject at a research center. (The Shooting Gallery)

The Castle. The Australian comedy tells the story of a tow-truck driver’s battle to save his home from an expanding airport. (Miramax)

Clubland. Record producer and songwriter Glen Ballard turns movie producer and screenwriter with the story of a band trying to crash the Los Angeles music scene. (Legacy Releasing)

Condo Painting. The last recorded interviews with Allen Ginsberg and William S. Burroughs are part of this documentary on New York artist George Condo. (October Films)

The Continued Adventures of Reptile Man. Tony Curtis is an actor who finds it hard to shed his old TV hero role. (Northern Arts)

Cookie’s Fortune. An eccentric Southern octogenarian and her extended family are the raw material for Robert Altman’s dark comedy. With Glenn Close, Julianne Moore, Patricia Neal, Liv Tyler, Lyle Lovett and others. (October Films)

Crazy in Alabama. Antonio Banderas directs his wife, Melanie Griffith, in a comedy-drama about a boy who learns big lessons from his eccentric aunt and her dreams of TV stardom. (Columbia)

Dairy Queens (working title). This mockumentary about a small-town beauty pageant features Kirstie Alley, Ellen Barkin, Kirsten Dunst and Denise Richards. (New Line)

Detroit Rock City. Edward Furlong spearheads a series of efforts by a group of teens to crash a sold-out KISS concert in 1978. (New Line)

Dick. In this revisionist history, high schoolers Kirsten Dunst and Michelle Williams meet President Nixon (Dan Hedaya) during a White House tour and end up in the thick of Watergate. (Columbia)

Dona Barbara. Romulo Gallegos’ 1929 novel is the source for this epic of passion and greed set in Chile’s harsh Arauco region. (Legacy Releasing)

Dying for Adventure. A newspaper writer spices up his life by hiring a hit man to come after him. (Abzurd Productions)

EDtv. Video store clerk Matthew McConaughey agrees to have his life aired on cable. Ron Howard directs a cast that includes Woody Harrelson, Ellen DeGeneres, Dennis Hopper and Elizabeth Hurley. (Universal)

Election. In this satirical comedy, student government advisor Matthew Broderick torpedoes the campaign of student Reese Witherspoon. (Paramount)

Endurance. The story of Olympic runner Haile Gebrselassie and his harsh childhood in Ethiopia. (Hollywood)

Entrapment. Globe-trotting master thief Sean Connery is lured by an insurance investigator (Catherine Zeta-Jones) posing as a formidable rival. (Fox)

eXistenZ. In David Cronenberg’s futuristic adventure, games system designer Jennifer Jason Leigh flees into her latest creation to elude her would-be assassins. (Miramax)

Fever Pitch. An uptight English teacher and a soccer coach fall in love against the backdrop of an exciting season for his team. (Phaedra Cinema)

The First Doug Movie Ever. The animated antics of a preteen boy, a monster in a lake and a beautiful girl. (Walt Disney)

Five Wives, Three Secretaries and Me. Filmmaker Tessa Blake turns the camera on her dad, a Houston oilman and playboy, capturing Texas’ eccentricities and excesses in the process. (Castle Hill)

Friends & Lovers. Stephen Baldwin, Alison Eastwood, Claudia Schiffer and Robert Downey Jr. are some of the players in this romantic comedy. (Lions Gate)

Frogs for Snakes. Barbara Hershey, Robbie Coltrane and John Leguizamo head the cast in Amos Poe’s neo-noir comedy about actors who will literally kill for a role. (The Shooting Gallery)

Go. Director Doug Liman follows “Swingers” with a story about desperate supermarket checkers, a car thief and a pair of TV stars who cross paths during an eventful 24 hours in L.A. and Las Vegas. (Columbia)

Great Falls. Some high school seniors make a pact to lose their virginity by prom night. (Universal)

A Hard Day’s Night. Will you still love it when it’s 35? Marking that anniversary, the Beatles’ romp returns with a restored negative and soundtrack and new footage. (Miramax)

Heart of Light. This entry from Greenland is the first feature film shot in the Inuit language. (Phaedra Cinema)

Hideous Kinky. Single mother Kate Winslet and her two daughters move from London to Morocco in this romantic adventure. (Stratosphere Entertainment)

Idle Hands. Devon Sewa is a teenage slacker whose hand has a mind of its own in this horror-comedy. (Columbia)

Illuminata. Director and co-writer John Turturro stars in an erotic farce revolving around a controversial play at the turn of the 20th century. (First Look)

Island of the Sharks. A look at the dining habits of the marine predator in tropical waters. (Imax)

I Want You. An elusive hairdresser becomes the obsession of three men in an English coastal town. Directed by Michael Winterbottom (“Go Now”). (Gramercy)

The Legend of the Pianist on the Ocean. Abandoned at birth on a transatlantic ship, the seafaring musician (Tim Roth) engages in a monumental rivalry with Jelly Roll Morton (Laurence Fishburne). (Fine Line)

Limbo. John Sayles wrote and directs the story of a fisherman (David Straithairn) and a singer (Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio) in the islands of southeastern Alaska. (Columbia)

The Loss of Sexual Innocence. Mike Figgis is the writer-director of this nonlinear look at key episodes in the life of a man (Julian Sands), played against the story of Adam and Eve. (Sony Pictures Classics)

Lovers of the Arctic Circle. Julio Medem’s drama follows a couple from adolescence to adulthood. (Fine Line)

Lucie Aubrac. The true story of a French Resistance figure’s struggle to free her husband from the Nazis. (October Films)

Marcello Mastroianni: I Remember. The documentary is based on interviews with the late cinema icon, conducted near the end of his life in 1996 by his longtime companion, director Anna Marie Tato. (First Look)

Mascara. Three old friends bond amid turmoil as they approach their 30th birthdays. (Phaedra Cinema)

Metroland. Prompted by the return of his lifelong friend and the energy of punk rock, an Englishman questions his choice of a stable domestic life. (Lions Gate)

Molly. An autistic woman (Elisabeth Shue) is transformed into a genius by an experimental medical treatment. (MGM)

The Mummy. Brendan Fraser, Rachel Weisz and John Hannah in a remake of Universal’s 1932 horror classic, with visual effects from Industrial Light & Magic. (Universal)

Open Your Eyes. Spaniard Alejandro Amenabar co-wrote and directs a psychological thriller about a man sorting through reality and illusion in the nightmarish aftermath of a disfiguring accident. (Artisan Entertainment)

Peeping Tom. Martin Scorsese presents the re-release of the controversial 1960 British film about a homicidal voyeur. (Rialto Pictures)

Perfect Timing. A Belfast boy studying Latin dance to improve his soccer footwork falls for an upper-class girl. (Gramercy)

Plunkett and Macleane. Robert Carlyle (“The Full Monty”) and Jonny Lee Miller portray the notorious and charismatic 18th century English highwaymen. (Gramercy)

Private Confessions. Liv Ullman directs Ingmar Bergman’s script about a woman tormented by an unhappy marriage. (Castle Hill)

The Rage: Carrie 2. Amy Irving returns as the only survivor of the original’s prom-night tantrum, as another telekinetic teen (Emily Bergl) surfaces in town. (United Artists)

Ravenous. Guy Pearce (“L.A. Confidential”), an Army captain in the 1840s, is stalked by a cannibalistic pursuer in the snowbound Sierra. Antonia Bird (“Priest”) directs. (Fox)

Relax . . . It’s Just Sex. Jennifer Tilly, Mitchell Anderson, Lori Petty and T.C. Carson in a comedy about a group of gay and straight friends dealing with life-changing issues. (Jour de Fete Films)

Rock the Boat. Documents a group of HIV-positive sailors in the annual TransPacific Yacht Race. (Tell the Truth Pictures)

Six Ways to Sunday. A small-town mob enforcer has more than he can cope with, between his ex-lounge singer mom, first love and twists of fate. With Norman Reedus, Deborah Harry, Isaac Hayes. (Stratosphere Entertainment)

SLC Punk. It’s anarchy in Salt Lake City, in a comedy about the only two punk-rockers in the Mormon stronghold. (Sony Pictures Classics)

Strawberry Fields. In a story set in the rock ‘n’ roll early ‘70s, a Japanese American girl finds she has a fondness for fire. (Phaedra Cinema)

Sue. Anna Thompson plays a lonely fortysomething woman faced with losing everything she has--including her mind. (Castle Hill)

Taxman. A New York tax investigator uncovers a multimillion-dollar scam, leading to mystery and danger. (Phaedra Cinema)

Ten Things I Hate About You. “The Taming of the Shrew” goes to high school: A girl conspires to make a match for her forbidding older sister so she can get on with romance herself. (Touchstone)

Tequila Body Shots. Onetime TV teen heartthrob Joey Lawrence plays the lead in a wild adventure about three buddies’ trip to Mexico--and into realms unknown. (Legacy Releasing)

The Thirteenth Floor. Craig Bierko enters a computer-generated version of 1937 Los Angeles in search of a murderer and encounters Gretchen Mol. (Columbia)

This Is My Father. The discovery of a faded photograph in the attic sends a Chicago schoolteacher (James Caan) to Ireland, where he pursues the truth about his heritage. (Sony Pictures Classics)

Three Seasons. Harvey Keitel stars in a look at people adjusting to life in postwar Vietnam. Director Tony Bui’s film is the first American feature to complete production in that country since the war. (October Films)

Three to Tango. A wealthy client assumes a young architect is gay, and enlists him to keep an eye on his mistress. Big mistake. Matthew Perry and Neve Campbell star in the romantic comedy. (Warner Bros.)

Trippin’. Some profound lessons and the arrival of true love are part of a young man’s final months of high school. (Rogue Pictures)

Twice Upon a Yesterday. Two strange characters work some magic in a romantic drama by Spanish novelist and songwriter Rafa Russo. (Trimark)

The Very Thought of You. Rufus Sewell, Tom Hollander and Joseph Fiennes form an odd trio of longtime friends who clash when Monica Potter turns up. (Miramax)

Waking the Dead. Billy Crudup as an attorney haunted by memories of his lover, who was killed in a terrorist attack eight years earlier. (Gramercy)

A Walk on the Moon. Straight housewife Diane Lane and hippie Viggo Mortensen bridge the generation gap during Woodstock summer. (Miramax)

Where the Money Is. Paul Newman as a roguish con and Linda Fiorentino as the nursing-home nurse who inspires one more heist. (PolyGram)

Wildfire: Feel the Heat. The large-format film chronicles infernos around the world, and the people and machines that battle them. (Discovery Pictures)

The Winslow Boy. David Mamet directs his adaptation of Terence Rattigan’s play, based on the true story of a 1910 case that shook the British justice system. (Sony Pictures Classics)

Xiu Xiu: The Sent Down Girl. Actress Joan Chen debuts as a director with the story of a woman exiled during the Cultural Revolution, and the Tibetan horse herder who aids her. (Stratosphere Entertainment)

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Capsules by RICHARD CROMELIN

Research by KATHLEEN CRAUGHWELL