UNDATED MOVIES IN AUSTRALIA  

 

Hairy Tale (TBA): National. Warner Bros (Roadshow). Family comedy.Seth Adkins, Matthew Modine, Roma Downey, Jeffrey Tambor, Fred Ward.  D: Gene Quintano (National Lampoon's Loaded Weapon 1). Gangly boy genius (Adkins) agrees to help a martial arts whiz (Modine) and his extraordinary primate pal Clemens outwit and outfight a devious animal laboratory—in exchange for some expert advice on how to play football and win the affections of his dream girl.

Harv The Barbarian (TBA): National. Icon. Comedy. Rob Schneider. 

Hating Alison Ashley (TBA): National. Hoyts. $9 million. D: Rod Hardy. 

A Heart Elsewhere (PG): Selected. Palace. 108 mins. Drama. Italy. (aka Il Cuore Altrove). Neri Marcore, Giancarlo Giannini & Vanessa Incontrada. In the 30s, a clumsy 35 years old professor of latin and humanities moves to Bologna, under the pressure of his parents (very important tailors in Rome, who work for the Pope!) hoping that he would eventually find a wife, settle down and start a family, giving them an heir to their fortune. 

Heartlands (TBA): Selected. Buena Vista. Drama. Michael Sheen. D: Damien O’Donnell (East is East).  Hopelessly devoted to his wife Sandra (Robbins), Sheen’s Colin spends dreary, unvarying days running her little newspaper shop and failing to notice her affair with local policeman and darts team captain Geoff (Carter). He’s so passive and eager to please that he doesn’t seem to mind the emptiness of his life. He even refuses to make a drama out of a crisis when the couple run off together to the darts regional final in seaside resort Blackpool, the "Las Vegas of the North".

Heaven's Pond (TBA): National. Roadshow. D: Joel Viertel. 

The Hebrew Hammer (M): Selected. Imagine Entertainment. 85 mins.

 

Hope Springs (TBA): National. Buena Vista. Comedy/ Romance. 92 mins. Colin Firth, Heather Graham, Minnie Driver, Oliver Platt, Mary Steenbergen. D: Mark Herman (Little Voice). British artist Colin Ware (Firth) discovers that his fiance, Vera (Driver), the love of his life, is going to marry another man. Distraught and despondent, he gets on a plane for America and ends up in the tiny town of Hope in New England. At first, Colin is depressed, but he soon finds more than a shoulder to cry on when his innkeepers introduce him to Mandy (Graham), a beautiful nurse.

 

 

 

House Of Fools (TBA): Selected. UIP. 

The Human Touch (TBA) Selected. Dendy. 

 

The Hunted (TBA): STV. Buena Vista. Action. Tommy Lee Jones, Connie Nielsen, Benicio Del Toro, Jenna Boyd, Leslie Stefanson, Robert Blanche, Aaron Brounstein, Ron Canada, Caitlin Clements, John Finn, Carrick O'Quinn, Mark Pellegrino, Patti Pelton.  D: William Friedkin (The French Connection). “Silence of the Lambs”-like thriller focusing around a murderer (Del Toro) who murders deer hunters in order to be a subject of a manhunt, from which he draws perverse thrills.  Ultimately he meets his match when he is hunted by a professional tracker (Lee Jones) and his partner (Nielson).