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CHILDREN OF THE REVOLUTION
Geoffrey Rush (Shine) joins Judy Davis and Sam Neill in a black comedy from Down Under about a young Communist who conceives Stalin's illegitimate son. ''It's absurd,'' says producer Tristram Miall. ''[She's] trying to get the revolution going in Australia and nobody is interested.... They all go home when the pubs close.'' (May 1)
AUSTIN POWERS
In the '60s, a spy was put on ice and neither shaken nor stirred for 30 years. In 1997, he thaws out, only to discover that his swingin' ways and groovy duds are grossly out of sync. ''He's trying to find love with Elizabeth Hurley,'' says screenwriter Mike Myers (who plays both the title role and the villain). ''But he's into, 'Let's go shag, shall we?' It doesn't work that way anymore.''(May 2)
TRUTH OR CONSEQUENCES, N.M.
''Winnebagos are very narrow,'' Kiefer Sutherland offers, recalling challenges he faced in his $8.5 million feature directorial debut. Much of this '70s-action homage, in which he, Vincent Gallo, and Mykelti Williamson blaze a trail to Mexico, takes place in an RV. ''This film is represent-ative of why I loved Freebie and the Bean, The French Connection, and Reservoir Dogs,'' he says. (May 2)
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Jackie Chan gets his kicks in OPERATION CONDOR, the story of a search for Nazi gold. A boy discovers a fantasy land where the forces of Taoism fight an evil warlord (Braveheart's Angus MacFayden) in WARRIORS OF VIRTUE. A female refugee from Croatia finds love with a Maori in BROKEN ENGLISH. A 15-year-old comes of age in LA PROMESSE by helping his father run an illegal immigration scheme. The nuclear family goes ballistic when a housewife has INTIMATE RELATIONS with a lodger and her daughter finds out. A Japanese girl whose fiance dies finds solace writing a LOVE LETTER to an old address of his, only to have it answered by a mysterious woman who shares his name.
