In Movie Theaters the Week of
May 17th, 1999

4 films are being released this week

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Wednesday, May 19th

Star Wars: Episode I - The Phantom Menace

Rated: PG

When the evil Trade Federation plots to take over the peaceful planet of Naboo, Jedi warrior Qui-Gon Jinn and his apprentice Obi-Wan Kenobi embark on an amazing adventure to save the planet. With them on their journey is the young queen Amidala, Gungan outcast JarJar Binks, and the powerful Captain Panaka, who will all travel to the faraway planets of Tatooine and Coruscant in a futile attempt to save their world from Darth Sidious, leader of the Trade Federation, and Darth Maul, the strongest Dark Lord of the Sith to ever wield a lightsaber.

Friday, May 21st

The Love Letter

Rated: PG-13

In the sleepy New England town of Loblolly on the Sea, a letter has arrived that is going to wake things up. It's a love letter; ardent, sensual -- and unsigned. Everybody who reads it will wonder who it's for and speculate who it's from. As the letter falls into different hands, some residents in the small town start to see one another with renewed interest. Determined to find it's author, Helen MacFarquhar (Kate Capshaw) begins a quest that will open her life to a new chapter involving two different men: George (Tom Selleck), an old flame from her past, and Johnny (Tom Everett Scott) a young man very much in her present. Will one of them decide her future? Unexpectedly, one mysterious love note has the power to unlock some startling secrets, changing the lives of everyone it reaches.

Endurance

Rated: G

Years before the 1996 Olympics, when his only idea of the outside world came from a static-laced radio broadcast, the boy named Haile Gebrselassie decided to run. He ran six miles to school and back, his books tucked under his arm. He worked hard in the fields and was known to still be chopping firewood or threshing wheat when his brothers had given up. After the chores were done, he would run. Across fields, over hills, down gullies, on dirt roads or cowpaths. He would do anything to keep running. Overcoming a world of hardship, personal pain and every challenge in his path -- this son of an Ethiopian village farmer crossed the finish line to win the gold medal...

Besieged