Dayton Daily News

TV HIGHLIGHTS Movie: Stolen in Plain Sight, 8 PMon LIFEMOV; 12AMon LIFEMOV: Movie: Wendy, 8 PMon HBO:

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Movie: AChristmas Exchange, 8 PMon

LIF; 12:01AMon LIF: As the Christmas season approaches, Molly (Laura Vandervoor­t) realizes a long-held dreamby swapping her quaint farmhouse for the season with London financier Patrick Kingston (Rainbow Sun Francks), who brings a posh London flat to the exchange. As they exchange emails while living in each other’sworlds on a temporary basis, a warm rapport begins to growbetwee­n the two in this 2020 romance. Yanic Truesdale, Martin Roach and Rachael Crawford costar.

Reaching the end of her rope with her abusive husband, Melissa (Gracie Gillam,“Z Nation”) flees with her baby to her parents’ cabin in a small Louisiana town, where Melissa and her sister spent many idyllic summers together. Soon, however, the baby is abducted and local authoritie­s are less than helpful in responding to her frantic report. Forced to take matters into her own hands, Melissa sets out to find her infant, in the process uncovering a dark secret the town is hiding.

Director Benh Zeitlin (“Beasts of the Southern Wild”) transplant­s the “Peter Pan” story to the rural Deep South in this 2020 fantasy drama, which he also co-wrote with his sister, Eliza. Devin France stars as 9-year-oldWendy Darling, whose mother, dinerwaitr­ess Angela (ShayWalker), gave up her childhood dreams to raise a family. Wendy and twin brothers Douglas and James (Gage and Gavin Naquin) are swept into an adventure, though, as they hop a trainwith a rambunctio­us boy named Peter (YashuaMack).

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