THE TRUCE
John Turturro (Quiz Show) stars as Auschwitz survivor Primo Levi--a role he took on "with trepidation and humility." For the film, Turturro lost 20 pounds and traveled to the late author's home in Turin, Italy. "It was a huge undertaking," the actor says, "the hardest thing I've ever done." (April 24)
PLUS
It's a busy month for Jay Mohr (Jerry Maguire): he's the voice of Paulie, DreamWorks SKG's talking-parrot adventure, (also starring Hallie Eisenberg, right); he costars with Christopher Walken and Denis Leary in the rich-kid-kidnapping-gone-wrong thriller Suicide Kings; and with Christina Applegate in Jane Austen's Mafia!, a send-up of gangster flicks by Naked Gun director Jim Abrahams. That damn dinosaur hits the big screen in Barney's Great Adventure: The Movie. Corbin Bernsen dusts off his cleats in Major League: Back to the Minors. A Ukrainian man finds himself jobless and jilted in A Friend of the Deceased. A Vietnam vet destroys his family in Little Boy Blue. In The Ugly, a young man in psychoanalysis snaps after years of persecution by his mother. Jeremy Irons plays a terminally ill journalist in Chinese Box. An amoral mailman becomes attached to a woman on his route in Junk Mail. Jared Harris stars as a teacher who falls in love with a street girl in B. Monkey. Vanessa Redgrave and Victoria Foyt star in Henry Jaglom's Deja Vu, in which a young woman goes looking for love from Jerusalem to Paris. Lawn Dogs, starring Sam Rockwell, explores an unusual relationship between a 10-year-old girl and a 21-year-old gardener. A working-class couple in Marseilles fall in love in Marius and Jeannette. Bob Hoskins organizes an amateur boxing club for a group of northern England boys in TwentyFourSeven. Andrew McCarthy and Lili Taylor costar in the romantic comedy Things I Never Told You. Then there's Sonatine, Takeshi "Beat" Kitano's 1994 Japanese gangster flick.
