Elmer Bernstein

Far from Heaven -- Oscar nominee Julianne Moore stars with Dennis Quaid in this seductive story of a seemingly perfect family and the forbidden desires that threaten to tear them apart.

Realistic story follows a junior high class over the course of a year as it tests its teacher's methods.

Richard Gere ("Primal Fear," "Sommersby") is a young man torn between following in his father's footsteps or striking out on his own in this Academy Award nominated, emotionally charged drama based on the novel by Richard Price ("Clockers," "Mad Dog and Glory," "Sea of Love"). Co-starring Marilu Henner (TV's "Evening Shade," "Taxi") as the woman who helps him break away, with Paul Sorvino ("Nixon") and Oscar-nominee Danny Aiello ("Do the Right Thing").

A middle-aged woman (Ingrid Bergman) is the wife of a university professor (Fritz Weaver) who is on sabbatical. She meets Cade (Anthony Quinn), a farmer, a mechanic, a handyman; he is uncomplicated, brimming with vitality and the opposite of her husband. Their affair is brief and cascading and when her husband's sabbatical is over, the woman is beset by conflict.

As World War II draws to a close, a young woman fleeing France gains passage on a troop freighter in exchange for sex. Put ashore, penniless and in Ireland, 18-year-old Bernadette gives birth to an exceptional boy, Frankie Starlight. Through the kindness of Dublin customs officer Jack Kelly (Gabriel Byrne "The Usual Suspects," "Millers Crossing"), Bernadette (Anne Parillaud "Man in the Iron Mask," "La Femme Nikita") is able to raise Frankie (Corban Walker "How to Cheat in the Leaving Certificate"), an intelligent child with dwarfism. Jack nurtures Frankie's love of the stars, sparking a lifelong, mystical obsession with the cosmos that endures even when Bernadette marries an American soldier and takes Frankie to Texas. As an adult, Frankie weaves astronomy and his mother's story into a novel that propels him from isolation to celebrity. Also starring Academy Award and Golden Globe-nominee Matt Dillon ("Crash," "There's Something About Mary").

Academy Award-winner Sean Connery ("Rising Sun," "The Hunt for Red October") stars in Fred Zinnemann's ("Julia," "High Noon") haunting tale of incestuous love set against a magnificent background of the Swiss Alps. Judith Crist writes that "Zinnemann has provided Sean Connery with one of his finest roles, and introduced to us a tantalizing new actress, Betsy Brantley."

Bill Murray has joined the Army, and the Army will never be the same! When John Winger (Murray) loses his job, his car, his apartment and his girlfriend, all in one day, he decides he only has one option: volunteer for Uncle Sam. He talks his friend Russell (Harold Ramis) into enlisting with him. Where else, they figure, can they help save the world for democracy and meet girls! John and Russell find basic training a snap: they are arrested twice, have endless run-ins with their drill sergeant (Warren Oates) and get into a big mess at a female mud-wrestling match. They even steal a top secret government vehicle to take some gorgeous female MPs on a date, and wind up behind the Iron Curtain. Stripes is outrageous fun! And that's the fact Jack!

When trapper Joe Bass (Lancaster) is bushwhacked by Indians who steal his furs and leave him a runaway slave (Davis) in exchange, he's determined to get his property back. But when the Indians are attacked by outlaws, Joe and his unwanted companion must join forces to retrieve the furs in a startling, action-packed journey of self-discovery that concludes with one of the all-time cinematic come-uppances!

They came to bring God, but instead brought disease and destruction. The Rev. Abner Hale (Von Sydow) and his gentle wife Jerusha (Andrews) attempt to convert early 19th-century Hawaiian natives to Christianity but find themselves ill-equipped to endure the unexpected tribulations of paradise. Surging with the excitement of windstorms, firestorms, shark attacks and magnificent island scenery, Hawaii shines as passionately as the island paradise itself.

The fourth and final film in THE MAGNIFICENT SEVEN series. The leader of the "Seven" (Lee Van Cleef) is now married and settled down as marshal of a small town. When a psychopathic teenage killer robs a bank, wounds Van Cleef and then kidnaps, sexually molests and kills his wife (Mariette Hartley), Van Cleef's "peaceful" life is destroyed. He accepts a new "mercenary" assignment: to protect a small Mexican town from a vicious gang that has already killed all the men in the town. Van Cleef recruits five convicts (Luke Askew, Pedro Armendariz,Jr., William Lucking, James B. Sikking and Ed Lauter) to help him, plus a newspaper reporter (Michael Callan) who wants to write his story. Among the distressed women welcoming the guns of the "Seven" are Stefanie Powers and Melissa Murphy. Music by Elmer Bernstein.

Henry Fonda and Anthony Perkins headline "The Tin Star," a tough-minded, character-driven western nominated for an Oscar for its story and screenplay. Perkins plays Ben Owens, a greenhorn sheriff who hasn't worn his badge long... and won't live to wear it much longer unless he gets some savvy help. Fonda, bringing to his role the presence and plain speaking that made him an icon of the cinematic West, plays wily bounty hunter Morg Hickman. "A decent man doesn't want to kill," Morg counsels Ben. "But if you're going to shoot, shoot to kill." Morg backs up his words with action. And when the time comes, so will Ben.

Steve McQueen and Lee Remick ignite sparks in this impassioned drama about a rootless drifter and the woman who loves him. Georgette Thomas (Remick) arrives with her small daughter in Columbus, Texas, to join her husband, Henry (McQueen), who has just been paroled from the state penitentiary. He'd been serving time for stabbing a man in a drunken brawl. His hopes pinned to a career as a songwriter, Henry returns to singing and playing guitar in bawdy roadhouses. Slim (Don Murray), a quiet-spoken depot sheriff, grows attached to Georgette and the child and does what he can to keep the volatile Henry in line. But, when Henry's tantrums become increasingly more violent, Slim is forced to stop him, bringing the film to a shattering climax.