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Loews Fresh Pond. Fresh Pond Plaza. 661-2900. On Thursday, April 7. "Major League 2" at 12:20, 2:45, 5:15, 7:35 and 10. "Jimmy Hollywood" at 12:10, 2:30, 4:50, 7:20 and 9:45. "Thumbelina" at 1, 3, 5 and 7:50. "In the Name of the Father" at 12:50, 3:35, 6:40 and 9:30. "Guarding Tess" at 9:05 p.m. "The Paper" at 12:35, 3:10, 5:30, 7:50 and 10:10. " Mighty Ducks 2" at 12, 2:15, 4:35, 6:55 and 9:20 "Above...
...Thumbelina...
...twirls. She giggles. She's no bigger than your thumb. Who is she? Why, Thumbelina, of course, the aptly-named "star" of the latest animated adaptation of the Hans Christian Andersen fairy tale. The movie was produced and directed by Don Bluth of "An American Tail," with music by Barry Manilow. "Thumbelina'"s makers try hard to follow Disney's lead in producing animation that appeals to both adults and children. However, the movie's confused plot and lack of engaging characters, despite a number of talented voices, prevent it from achieving this goal. A film of a few good...
...leisurely paced and look comparatively low-tech. Visually, they are little more than still pictures strung together in a technique known, rather generously, as dissolve animation. Sales have been moderate (cost: $9.95 or $14.95 a tape), but titles are multiplying rapidly. Following its initial series of 18 storybook classics (Thumbelina, read by Kelly McGillis; The Emperor's New Clothes, with John Gielgud), the company has just launched a new collection of folktales from around the world, featuring stars like Denzel Washington and Max von Sydow. Also in the works: legendary American tales and Bible stories. The videos are being...
...time for homilies. Besides the rueful and gritty Back on the Chain Gang, the album also includes a ravishing love song, 2000 Miles; a corrosive paean to suburban gentrification, My City Was Gone; a sharp bit of blue-collar feminism, Watching the Clothes; and, perhaps best of all, Thumbelina, one of the most hard-boiled lullabies ever written. Set to a kind of choogling Nashville beat, the song manages to combine love for the innocence of a young child ("shuffled about like a pawned wedding ring") and rage over a broken love affair into a song of bitter pride: "What...