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July 26th, 1999

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Deep Blue Sea

Rated: R

A group of scientists in an underwater laboratory, the Aquatica, are experimenting with Mako sharks seeking to cure human brain ailments. The unintended result of the experimentation is a breed of Mako that is bigger, smarter, faster and meaner that any other - a perfect killing machine. When the increasingly uneasy financial backers of the project show up and threaten to close-down the research on the eve of key tests, the entire group on the Aquatica are now stranded by a major tropical storm and predatory monster Mako sharks stalking them as the Aquatica sinks.

Runaway Bride

Rated: PG

Ike Graham (Richard Gere), a New York newspaper columnist learns about a young woman in rural Maryland named Maggie (Julia Roberts) who, apparently, loves being engaged, but who has very cold feet about getting married. Intrigued, Ike composes a column about Maggie, beginning a chain of events which leads him to her hometown to confront the Runaway Bride. Furious with the column and its author, Maggie plans to even the score with him -- even as she is planning her fourth wedding. As Maggie exacts her revenge against Ike, and while he infuriates her by ingratiating himself to her friends and family, the two begin to learn more about each other and about themselves.

My Life So Far

Rated: PG-13

Fraser belongs to an exquisitely eccentric Scottish family living amidst an idyllic old estate, Kiloran House, which is now under the strict control of the indomitable Gamma Macintosh (Rosemary Harris). Though the child and animal -filled estate is kept remotely sane by both Gamma and Fraser's mother, Moira (Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio), it is spiritually headed by Fraser's madcap father, Edward (Colin Firth). Edward is an inventor, misunderstood genius and the founder of the only moss factory on the entire European continent. To others, he is a crackpot. But to Fraser, he is a force beyond comprehension. Life with father on the Macintosh estate is a fairy tale, a series of one remarkable occurrence after another, filled with ingenious contraptions and amazing figments of the imagination. Then, reality strikes in the person of Uncle Morris (Malcolm McDowell), the sole heir to Gamma's estate and a hard-nosed businessman who has had his fill of Edward's hare-brained schemes and moss factory. Morris brings with him to Kiloran an enchanting outsider: his alluring French fiancee Heloise (Irene Jacob) who will alter the family's relations and fate forever. Everyone falls madly in love with Heloise, including Fraser. But as the fearless Fraser watches the way Heloise takes Kiloran by storm, he begins to see the world - and his incorrigibly boyish father - through newly adult eyes.