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ANOTHER STAKEOUT (Touchstone PG 104mins) Buddy cops Richard Dreyfuss and Emilio Estevez stake out two minor cogs in a murder case, with casual, feminist DA Rosie O'Donnell and her Rottweiler Archie mucking in. Dreyfuss can bring buoyancy to most projects but pitted against a somnambulant Estevez and a misused O'Donnell (not to mention Archie, who gets all the best cutaways), he's foiled from the off. Still, director John Badham can keep junk like this ticking over, and it would be churlish to claim that a point-of-view shot from inside a cat's rear didn't mark a highpoint of sorts.

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LE JEUNE WERTHER (Tartan 15 91mins) Director Jacques Doillon lifted this tale of school-mates rocked by a friend's suicide from a Goethe novella. The teenagers voice the facile procrastinations of minds 10 years their senior, and it's a credit to their ability that they emerge untarnished from a mealy mouthed script. It's been compared to 400 Blows and Stand by Me, but a more revealing point of reference might be the early angst- trash of John Hughes, or Heathers played straight. Retail price pounds 15.99.

The Louis Malle Collection (Electric, pounds 15.99 each) has an impressive roster that includes Le Feu Follet, Le Souffle au Coeur and the fizzy Zazie dans le Metro. Then there's Peter Greenaway's The Falls (Connoisseur, pounds 15.99), a sly, wry, three-hour index of 92 ciphers involved in 'Violent Unexplained Events'. It's a bizarre, irreverent treat, as is Kaizo Hayashi's Circus Boys (ICA, pounds 12.99) which captures the Utopia of circus life, crystallised in young minds. Knitted of passion and vision, it recalls Vigo and Cocteau, and, in more imposing moments, Georges Franju's Les Yeux sans Visage. Finally, a 21 November video release has been set for Jurassic Park. It will be a snip at pounds 14.99, though the nagging widescreen question still hangs in the air.