Jeff Bridges stars as an innocent alien from a distant planet who learns what it means to fall in love with an earthling (Karen Allen). Universally moving!

The Wanderers, The Del Bombers, The Wongs, The Ducky Boys, The Fordham Baldies. They all inhabited the streets of New York in the early '60s. Richard Price's ("Sea of Love," "Clockers") novel becomes a tough and realistic, yet romantic and nostalgic re-creation of the world of the gangs and their girls. An impressive movie -- and cult favorite -- from director Philip Kaufman ("Invasion of the Body Snatchers," "The Right Stuff"). Starring Ken Wahl (TV's "Wiseguy") and Karen Allen ("Raiders of the Lost Ark") and Academy Award-winner Olympia Dukakis ("Moonstruck").

The Wanderers, The Del Bombers, The Wongs, The Ducky Boys, The Fordham Baldies. They all inhabited the streets of New York in the early '60s. Richard Price's ("Sea of Love," "Clockers") novel becomes a tough and realistic, yet romantic and nostalgic re-creation of the world of the gangs and their girls. An impressive movie -- and cult favorite -- from director Philip Kaufman ("Invasion of the Body Snatchers," "The Right Stuff"). Starring Ken Wahl (TV's "Wiseguy") and Karen Allen ("Raiders of the Lost Ark") and Academy Award-winner Olympia Dukakis ("Moonstruck").

Wealthy-but-troubled Vietnam vet Jeff Fahey, his trailer-trash wife Karen Allen, and drifter Keith Carradine are the characters essential to the action in Backfire. Fahey's horrific flashbacks to his days in Nam plunge him into a catatonic state. Though he has previously drawn up a document granting his wife power of attorney in case this should happen, Fahey's protective sister Dinah Manoff keeps this fact secret, hoping to cut off the mercenary Allen--and her lover Dean Paul Martin--without a penny. Drowning her problems at a local bar, Allen makes the acquaintance of Carradine, who shortly afterwards moves into the family mansion, bag and baggage. Fed up with being treated like garbage, and equally fed up with her noncommunicative husband, Allen enmeshes Carradine in an insidious plan that will regain her the riches she feels she deserves. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide.

On May 22, Indiana Jones is back in a new globe-trotting adventure, Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull. Directed by Steven Spielberg and starring Harrison Ford as Indy, Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull features an outstanding cast, including Oscar winner Cate Blanchett, Karen Allen, Ray Winstone, John Hurt, Oscar winner Jim Broadbent and Shia LaBeouf. Frank Marshall is the film s producer. George Lucas and Kathleen Kennedy are the executive producers. The screenplay is by David Koepp from a story by George Lucas and Jeff Nathanson.

Paul Newman directed this moving adaptation of Tennessee Williams' classic play {-The Glass Menagerie}. Joanne Woodward stars as aging Southern belle Amanda Wingfield, whose domineering parenting has driven her shy, timid daughter Laura (Karen Allen) inward and has made her adventure-hungry son Tom (John Malkovich) miserable. Newman hasn't tried to open the original stage play up at all, preferring to keep all of the action within the Wingfield apartment. The cast performed the play in a Broadway revival prior to the filming. James Naughton appears as Laura's gentleman caller. ~ Stephen Thomas Erlewine, All Movie Guide.

In Sweet Talker, an amiable, charming ex-convict (Bryan Brown) arrives in a small Australian costal city with the intent of duping the populace into investing money in a phony excavation of a sunken ship, which is allegedly filled with gold. Unexpectedly, he falls in love with a young widow (Karen Allen) and becomes a father-figure to her young son. His new romance complicates his planned scam, and he can't decide whether to carry his plan through or stay with the woman. ~ Stephen Thomas Erlewine, All Movie Guide.

In 1854 Utah, 13-year old Nick Wilson (Blake Heron), bored by life on the family farm with his widowed mother (Karen Allen), accepts an invitation to join a local Shoshone tribe. The Indians are anxious to have the boy among them because he fulfills the prescient dreams of one of the elders, Anuba (Patricia Van Ingen); Nick is just happy to have the adventure. He undergoes training to become a Shoshone warrior, and his ability to shoot an arrow comes in handy as a rival tribe -- led by the fearsome Pocatello (Wes Studi) -- and a posse of white men bring danger to his newly adopted family. ~ Buzz McClain, All Movie Guide.