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Films by Release Date 1998

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This page covers the whole of 1998. We also have 1997

Released 31 December 1998
Madeline (A)	The Siege (10)
Hav Plenty (10 L)	Meet Joe Black (PG)
Bloodmoon (16 V)	A Price Above Rubies (13)
Those Who Love Me Can Take the Train (10)

Released 24 December 1998
Inside Out (10)
Washington Square (A)	I'll Be Home For Xmas (A)
Wrongfully Accused (A)	Who Am I Jackie Chan (A)

Released 18 December 1998
Rounders (10 L)	Land of the Free (see below)
Il Ciclone (13)	A Night at the Roxbury (10)
Practical Magic (10)	Barney's Great Adventure (A)
Land of the Free (13 V) A politician's campaign manager discovers that the candidate is a front for a military organization plotting a political overthrow of the government. In trying to expose the candidate's right-wing activities, he puts himself and his family in danger of being killed.

Released 11 December 1998
What Dreams May Come (A)
Mulan (A)	Polish Wedding (PG 13)
	Rien Ne Va Plus (PG)
Rush Hour (PG 10)	Under the Skin (13 L)
East Palace West Palace (PG 13)

Released 4 December 1998
Babe: Pig in the City (A)	American Dragons
There's Something About Mary (13 L)	Memory & Desire (16)

Released 27 November 1998
Snake Eyes (10)	Cousin Bette (13 SN)
Dead Man on Campus (13 L)

Released 20 November 1998
Blade	Phoenix
Soul Food	Homegrown
I Think I Do	Counterforce (see below)
Return to Paradise
Counterforce The most powerful criminal organizations in the city, untouchable by law, are being massacred. Destroyed with surgical precision. The FBI and the local police track a group of vigilantes, soon discovered to be a renegade SWAT Team from citywide police forces - self appointed executioners... fulfilling the will of the people...

Released 13 November 1998
The Big Hit (16 L)	The Governess (16)
Smoke Signals (PG 10)	The Negotiator (13)
Gay & Lesbian Film Festival Cape Town
Japanese Film Festival Johannesburg

Released 6 November 1998
Mafia! (A)	Mercury Rising (16 L)
The Castle (13 L)	Velvet Goldmine (18 SN)
Black Thunder (See below)
Gay & Lesbian Film Festival Pta & Jhb & Cpt
Black Thunder (PG 10) A top secret US plane is stolen and flown to Libya. The best US pilot available is sent to get it back. However his mission goes awry, and he has to evade capture in Libya, steal the plane (now laden with nerve gas), and fly it home. His former teacher, also an ace pilot, now works for the Libyans, and comes after him in a top-notch US plane, leading to the dramatic dog-fight finale.

Released 30 October 1998
Girl's Night (PG 10)	Dance With Me (A)
Six Days Seven Nights (A)	The Odd Couple 2 (A)
Soldier (13 V)
Gay & Lesbian Film Festival - Pta & Jhb
Spanish Film Festival - Pta
Japanese Film Festival Cpt

Released 23 October 1998
Halloween H20 (16 V)	Eve's Bayou (10)
Deep Crimson (18 VLS)	Out of Sight (16 VL)
Oliver Stone's Savior (18 VL)
Spanish Film Festival - Cpt

Released 16 October 1998
The Parent Trap (A)	Still Breathing (A)
The Truman Show (A)	The Tango Lesson (A)
Spanish Film Festival - Jhb

Released 9 October 1998
Dobermann (18 VLSN)	Wild Man Blues (A)
Live Flesh (18 LSN)	The Spanish Prisoner (A)
Grimm Brothers' Snow White (16 VS)
The Object of My Affection (16 L)
Spanish Film Festival - Jhb
French Film Festival - Cpt

Released 2 October 1998
Senseless	Animals
He Got Game	Love Jones
A Perfect Murder
French Film Festival - Jhb and Cpt

Released 24 September 1998
Acts of Betrayal	The Mask of Zorro
Chinese Box	The Myth of Fingerprints
Small Soldiers	The Magic Sword
French Film Festival - Jhb and Cpt
Fellini Film Festival - Cpt

Released 18 September 1998
Can't Hardly Wait	Same Old Song
Saving Private Ryan	The Magic Sword (Natal)
French Film Festival - Jhb and Cpt

Released 11 September 1998
Dr Dolittle (PG10)	Dust off the Wings (16 L) Sex, drugs, and more sex
Doing Time for Patsy Cline (PG13)
Talk of Angels (A)	The Patriot (13)
Fellini Film Festival - Johannesburg

Released 4 September 1998
Best Men (13L)	Primary Colors (13L)
Cold Blooded (16VL)	Sliding Doors (16SL)

Released 28 August 1998
Armageddon (PG 10)	Les Miserables (A)
Captain Conan (13VL)	The Long Way Home (A)

Released 21 August 1998
Lilies (16)
Masterminds (PG 13L)	Hope Floats (A)
Kissing a Fool (16L)	Playing God (16V)
The Gingerbread Man (16)	The Big Lebowski (16L)

Released 14 August 1998
Henry Fool (PG 13SL)	Gang Related (13VL)
Shall We Dance? (A)
Species 2 (18SV)	The Avengers (10)

Released 7 August 1998
Bent (18)	Black Dog (PG 13)	Up 'n Under (PG 10L)
Twilight (13L)	Nil by Mouth (18)	Major League 3 (PG 10)
The Horse Whisperer (A)

Released 31 July 1998
A Merry War (10)	Lethal Weapon 4 (13LV)
Funny Games (16V)
Meet the Deedles (A)	The Replacement Killers (13V)

Released 24 July 1998
Mojo (16L)	The Sexy Girls (16VL)
Lolita (16SNVL)	The Proposition (13)
In God's Hands (A)
The X-Files Movie (PG 10)

Released 17 July 1998
Recoil (13VL)	'Til There was You (10L)
Knock Off (PG 10)	Four Days in September (13VL)
The Man in the Iron Mask (PG 10)

Released 10 July 1998
Paulie (A)	The Borrowers (A)
Dark City (13 VN)	A Thousand Acres (13 L)

Released 3 July 1998
Godzilla (PG13)	Mrs Dalloway (A)	The Apostle (A)

Released 26 June 1998
Anastasia (A)	Afterglow (16)
Nightwatch (18 L)	Matchmaker (13 L)
Devil's Island (PG13)
The Blues Brothers 2000 (PG10)
Romeo & Juliet (A) (Re-release)

Released 19 June 1998
Fire (16) (Re-release)	Flubber (A)
Hush (13)	Lost in Space (PG10)

Released 12 June 1998
Grease (A)	Deep Rising (16 VL)
Booty Call (16 SL)	Happy Together (10)
Deconstructing Harry (18 L)	Shadow of Doubt (16 SVN)

Released 5 June 1998
Airbud (A)	Wild Things (16 SVL)
Lawn Dogs (16 SN)	City of Angels (10)

Released 29 May 1998
Fairytale (A)	Phantoms (16)
Metroland (18 S)	The Jackal (16 VL)
Touch Me (see below)	A Place Called Truth (see below)
Touch Me: (108 minutes, 16L) A love story between a beautiful young woman who teaches aerobics, and a world class playboy who runs the health club. Their passionate romance is interrupted when the heroine receives a life-changing phone call, and the couple embark on their own personal journey. A Place Called Truth: (100 minutes, 18SNL) An erotic psychological thriller. A young woman who seems to have it all - daddy's little girl engaged to a wealthy man. However she is in love with a cowboy who works for daddy. Then a new woman comes to town and into their lives. She wants the cowboy too...

Released 22 May 1998
Fools (13)	Krippendorf's Tribe (PG10)
Mutual Needs (18?)	Mr Nice Guy (10)
Photographing Fairies (16 S)	Wag the Dog (13 L)
An American Werewolf in Paris (16 NV)

Released 15 May 1998
Deep Impact (13)	The Edge (13 L)
Taste of Cherry (A)	Ulee's Gold (13 L)
Swept From the Sea (PG13)
Bad Day on the Block (16 VL)

Released 8 May 1998
Red Corner (13)	Wilde (18)
The Wedding Singer (PG13 L)	Oscar & Lucinda (13 SV)
The Assignment (18 VLN)	Last of the High Kings (16 SL)

Released 30 April 1998
Mr Magoo (A)	Jackie Brown (16 SL)	Destiny (PG10 V)
Love & Death on Long Island (PG13 L)		US Marshals (PG13)

Released 24 April 1998
U-Turn (18 SVL)	Firestorm (13 VL)	Face (16 VL)	Spawn (13 VL)
For Richer or Poorer (10)		A Chef in Love (PG10 N)
The Curse of Inferno		The Hanging Garden (18)
The Curse of Inferno: (86 minutes, 10L) Two likeable but inept bank robbers bungle a bank robbery in the town of Inferno. They hide the loot in the men's toilet (in the bank) until things calm down. While they are trying to figure out how to recover the money, the (female) officer assigned to investigate the case falls hopelessly in love with one of them. Then the money begins to disappear and reappear in the strangest places. Then, as they say, the plot thickens...

Released 17 April 1998
The Rainmaker (PG 13)	Fire (16)	Wings of a Dove (16 SN)
Great Expectations (13 L)	Fallen (16)

Released 9 April 1998
Hard Rain (PG 13L)	Shooting Fish (PG 10L)
I Went Down (16 SL)	Good Burger (A)
Chasing Amy (16 SL)	Seven Years in Tibet (A)

Released 3 April 1998
Retroactive (See below)		What a Drag (18 SNL)
Sphere (PG 13)	Mouse Hunt (A)	The Little Mermaid (A)
Retroactive: (91 minutes, 13VL) A woman, whose car breaks down on the highway, is picked up by a crazed stranger and his obviously threatened girl friend. Despite potential escape opportunities, she stays with the couple who are involved in some kind of unexplained thievery involving a computer disk. After a series of murders, including that of the girl friend, the woman manages to escape to a scientific lab which is experimenting with time travel. Here she asks to go back in time to try to stop the killings. Repeated attempts results in the same deaths.

Released 27 March 1998
Kundun (PG 10 V)	The Little Mermaid (A)
Power Rangers (A)	Tomorrow Never Dies (13)

Released 20 March 1998
The End of Violence (13 L)	Lorca (16 VN)	Scream 2 (16 L)
The Underground (see below)
Mortal Kombat: The Annihilation (PG 13 V)
Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil (16 L)
The Underground: This film seems to have gone straight to video in the States. A tough and experienced cop is on the trail of the men who killed his long-time partner and friend. To aid in the investigation he is assigned a new rookie partner who used to be a gang member, and may be of use to him if he can keep his mouth shut. As he stalks the killers he starts to unravel a plot to murder rap artists for profit and he must enter the underground rap scene to catch his prey.

Released 13 March 1998
Gattaca (PG 13)		The Boxer (16 VL)
	Desperate Measures (13L)
Assassin(s) (18 SVL)		The Postman (13)

Released 6 March 1998
Mad City (PG 13)	Good Will Hunting (16 L)
Gabbeh (A) / The Store Keeper (A) (Double feature)	Executive Target (16 VLN) (see below)
Executive Target: (Running time: 64 minutes) Our hero, a stuntman in trouble with the law, gets coerced into helping with a bank robbery. Then his captors want him to help kidnap the US president. Our hero has to sort out the situation and rescue his wife in this action-packed film.

Released 27 February 1998
Alien 4 (16 VL)	Do Me a Favour (16 L)
Amistad (PG 13)	I'm Not Rappaport (10)
Do Me a Favour: (Running time: 104 minutes) A shy, clean-cut high school student leads a somewhat boring and insecure life. But that all changes when one night he meets an extraordinary woman named Alex, and suddenly finds himself on an impulsive, theft-ridden, sex-charged road trip that ultimately leads him in a whole new direction.

Released 20 February 1998
Switchback (PG 13 V)	In & Out (13 L)
Serpent's Kiss (PG 10)	Hoodlum (18 SVL)

Released 13 February 1998
Rocketman (A)	Boogie Nights (18 SNLV)
She's so Lovely (16 L)	As Good as it Gets (13 L)

Released 6 February 1998
I Know What You Did Last Summer (16)
Welcome to Sarajevo (16 VL)
The Ice Storm (16)	Au Petit Marguery (13)

Released 30 January 1998
Wild America (A)	Up on the Roof (16 SL)
The Full Monty (16 L)	The Sweet Hereafter (16 NL)

Released 23 January 1998
Starship Troopers (13 V)	Paljas (A)
A Life Less Ordinary (13 L)	Beaumarchais (13)

Released 16 January 1998
Nothing to Lose (13 SN)	Truth or Consequence (18 VL)
Most Wanted (16 VL)	Flower of my Secret (13)

Released 9 January 1998
The Game (13 VL)	Children of the Revolution (16 SNL)
Leave it to Beaver (A)	Devil's Advocate (18 VL)

Released 2 January 1998
Copland (16 VL)	The Leading Man (13 SL)	Spiceworld (A)
Kiss the Girls (16 VL)	Caprice's D'un Fleuve (16 S)

1997

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