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[NEW YEAR'S RESOLUTION] In Alien 5, get the creature down to Earth where it can do some real damage
[TITLE] FLUBBER
[OPENS] Nov. 26
[PLAYERS] Robin Williams; writer-producer John Hughes
[IN A PHRASE] The Nutty Absent-Minded Professor
[CHRISTMAS WISH] Robin's charm + Disney's clout = Doubtfire grosses
[NEW YEAR'S RESOLUTION] Hope this atones for bad-B.O. Father's Day and slaphappy Jack
[TITLE] WELCOME TO SARAJEVO
[OPENS] Nov. 26
[PLAYERS] Woody Harrelson; director Michael Winterbottom (Jude)
[IN A PHRASE] Journalists in war-torn Bosnia
[CHRISTMAS WISH] Alchemize Americans' war guilt into B.O. gelt
[NEW YEAR'S RESOLUTION] Never underestimate Americans' indifference to the Bosnian holocaust
[TITLE] GOOD WILL HUNTING
[OPENS] Dec. 5
[PLAYERS] Robin Williams, Matt Damon; director Gus Van Sant
[IN A PHRASE] Awakenings, but the patient is a genius
[CHRISTMAS WISH] Raves and a Golden Globe for instant star Damon
[NEW YEAR'S RESOLUTION] Try to remember which young Matt was Damon and which was McConaughey
[TITLE] AMISTAD
[OPENS] Dec. 10
[PLAYERS] Morgan Freeman, Anthony Hopkins; dir. Steven Spielberg
[IN A PHRASE] Schindler's slaves
[CHRISTMAS WISH] Jurassic at the box office, Schindler at the Oscars
[NEW YEAR'S RESOLUTION] Find story about yet another minority saved by a righteous white guy
[TITLE] DECONSTRUCTING HARRY
[OPENS] Dec. 12
[PLAYERS] Stars with cute names: Billy, Kirstie, Demi, Judy, Woody Woody
[IN A PHRASE] Allen is (and isn't) Philip Roth
[CHRISTMAS WISH] Annie Hall with boughs of holly
[NEW YEAR'S RESOLUTION] Try sympathetic comedy about another famous N.Y. Knicks lover: Marv Albert
[TITLE] FOR RICHER OR POORER
[OPENS] Dec. 12
[PLAYERS] Tim Allen, Kirstie Alley on lam from IRS in Pa. Dutch country
[IN A PHRASE] Amishtad
[CHRISTMAS WISH] Another Santa Clause ($145 mil. domestic gross)
[NEW YEAR'S RESOLUTION] Find funnier religious minority for next comedy
[TITLE] SCREAM 2
[OPENS] Dec. 12
[PLAYERS] Neve Campbell, Courteney Cox, Jada Pinkett
[IN A PHRASE] Scream and Scream Again!
[CHRISTMAS WISH] Build on the suddenly hot horror-film genre
[NEW YEAR'S RESOLUTION] Too much camp blood on our hands; get a new genre
[TITLE] THE APOSTLE
[OPENS] Dec. 17
[PLAYERS] Robert Duvall (also writer-director), Farrah Fawcett
[IN A PHRASE] Evangelist preacher finally gets religion
[CHRISTMAS WISH] A Best Actor Oscar--thank you, Jesus!
[NEW YEAR'S RESOLUTION] Pray harder
[TITLE] HOME ALONE 3
[OPENS] Dec. 19
[PLAYERS] Alex D. Linz in for Macaulay Culkin; wr.-prod. John Hughes
[IN A PHRASE] The same, but younger
[CHRISTMAS WISH] Suburban Christmas disaster scenario can't miss
[NEW YEAR'S RESOLUTION] Oh, grow up!
[TITLE] MOUSEHUNT
[OPENS] Dec. 19
[PLAYERS] Nathan Lane, Christopher Walken, a mouse