ALSO IN OCTOBER

Armand Assante, Sherilyn Fenn, and Sean Young spoof two thrillers in Carl Reiner's Fatal Instinct; a 27-year-old (Sean Astin) pursues his dream of playing football for Notre Dame in Rudy; a bisexual woman and a male friend kidnap her female lover and hit the road in Bound and Gagged: A Love Story; a serial killer travels through electrical circuits to wreak havoc on a mother (Karen Allen) and her family in Ghost in the Machine; the real-life story of a woman (Suzy Amis) disguised as a cowboy is the inspiration for The Ballad of Little Jo; two boys embark on a cross-country odyssey in Josh and S.A.M.; Richard Gere and Lena Olin star in the long-delayed psychological drama Mr. Jones; Andie MacDowell plays a widow traveling in modern Egypt in the romantic adventure Ruby Cairo; Hulk Hogan watches over rambunctious kids in Mr. Nanny; in For Love or Money, hotel concierge Michael J. Fox tries to please wealthy guests and himself; Charles Bronson returns in Death Wish V: The Face of Death; fascists will rule the world if the hero of Philadelphia Experiment 2 can't correct a time-space aberration; bodies (and old movie gimmicks) refuse to stay buried in Return of the Living Dead III; lost in the wrong neighborhood, Emilio Estevez is terrorized by Denis Leary in the thriller Judgment Night; Danny Aiello stars in Me and the Kid, a jaded-thief-meets- spoiled-rich-kid story; James Carville and George Stephanopoulos are the subjects of the documentary The War Room; and a boy gets involved in his family's bloody feud in Italy's Flight of the Innocent.