THIS WEEK’S MOVIE HIGHLIGHTS
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Just Wright ›› (’ 10, Romance-Comedy) Queen Latifah. A physical therapist falls in love with her patient, a basketball player, but he only has eyes for her best friend. (cc) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . VH1
7:30 pm. San Andreas ›› (’ 15, Action) Dwayne Johnson. When the San Andreas fault triggers a magnitude 9 earthquake, a search-and-rescue helicopter pilot must navigate the destruction from Los Angeles to San Francisco to bring his estranged wife and daughter to safety. (cc) SYFY 8:00 pm The Hangover Part III ›› (’ 13, Comedy) Bradley Cooper. Phil, Stu and Doug take Alan on a road trip to help him through a personal crisis. Meanwhile, Mr. Chow breaks out of prison and prepares to wreak havoc. (cc) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . FX 8:00 pm . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Shrek Forever After ›› (’ 10, Children’s) Voices of Mike Myers. Animated. After Rumpelstiltskin tricks him into making a pact, Shrek finds himself in an alternate version of Far Far Away, in which he and Fiona never met. (cc) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . NICK 8:00 pm . . . . . . . The Palm Beach Story ›››› (’ 42, Comedy) Claudette Colbert. An inventor’s wife meets some sporting millionaires on a train to Florida. (cc) TCM 8:30 pm Coming to America ››› (’ 88, Comedy) Eddie Murphy. Pampered Prince Akeem of Zamunda comes to New York with his royal sidekick to find a true-love bride. (cc). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . FREE 9:00 pm Diary of a Mad Black Woman ›› (’05, Comedy-Drama) Kimberly Elise. A woman must put her life back together after her husband of 18 years abruptly kicks her out of the house. (cc). . . BET 9:00 pm 12 Strong ›› (’ 18, War) Chris Hemsworth. In the wake of Sept. 11, Capt. Mitch Nelson leads a U.S. Special Forces team into Afghanistan to take down the Taliban and al-Qaida. Outgunned and outnumbered, Nelson and his forces face overwhelming odds in a fight against a ruthless enemy. (cc) . . . . . . . . . . . . . AMC 9:30 pm . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Lottery Ticket ›› (’ 10, Comedy) Bow Wow. After winning $370 million, a young man must survive a holiday weekend with greedy neighbors before he can claim the prize. (cc) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . VH1 9:45 pm . . . . . . Boom Town ››› (’ 40, Adventure) Clark Gable. Texas wildcatters hit oil together, then fight after one marries the other’s sweetheart. (cc) . . TCM 10:00 pm The Hangover Part III ›› (’ 13, Comedy) Bradley Cooper. Phil, Stu and Doug take Alan on a road trip to help him through a personal crisis. Meanwhile, Mr. Chow breaks out of prison and prepares to wreak havoc. (cc) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . FX 10:00 pm . . Hancock ›› (’ 08, Action)
Will Smith. A scruffy superhero protects the citizens of Los Angeles but leaves horrendous collateral damage in the wake of every well-intentioned feat. (cc) SYFY
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6:30 am . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Ninotchka ›››› (’ 39, Comedy) Greta Garbo. A playboy charms a Russian envoy sent to fetch three wayward comrades in Paris. (cc) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . TCM 7:00 am . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Scouts Guide to the Zombie Apocalypse ›› (’ 15, Horror) Tye Sheridan. Three Boy Scouts join forces with a tough cocktail waitress to save their once-peaceful town from a zombie invasion. (cc) . . . . . . FX 8:30 am Theodora Goes Wild ››› (’ 36, Comedy) Irene Dunne. A small-town New England author meets her racy novel’s urbane illustrator in Manhattan. (cc) TCM 9:30 am Windtalkers ›› (’ 02, War) Nicolas Cage. In World War II, a Marine protects a Navajo recruit who transmits messages in his native tongue, confounding Japanese code-breakers. (cc) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . AMC 10:00 am . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Scouts Guide to the Zombie Apocalypse ›› (’ 15, Horror) Tye Sheridan. Three Boy Scouts join forces with a tough cocktail waitress to save their once-peaceful town from a zombie invasion. (cc) . . . . . . FX 10:15 am . . . . . . . . . Magic Boy ›› (’ 60, Fantasy) Voices of Katsuo Nakamura. Animated. An adolescent sorcerer uses magic to save his sister from an evil witch in this animated adventure from Japan. (cc) TCM 10:29 am. . . Hancock ›› (’ 08, Action)
Will Smith. A scruffy superhero protects the citizens of Los Angeles but leaves horrendous collateral damage in the wake of every well-intentioned feat. (cc) SYFY 10:30 am . . Tim Burton’s Corpse Bride ››› (’ 05, Children’s) Voices of Johnny Depp. Animated. In 19th-century Europe, a gifted pianist mistakenly weds a dead woman who takes him to the underworld. (cc) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . FREE 11:00 am The Breakfast Club ››› (’ 85, Comedy-Drama) Emilio Estevez. A wrestler, a rebel, a brain, a beauty and a shy girl share Saturday detention in a Chicago high school. (cc). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . BRV NOON Burlesque ›› (’ 10, Drama) Cher. With help from a savvy stage manager and a gender-bending host, a cocktail waitress with a stunning voice becomes a performer in a club’s musical revue. (cc)
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NOON . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Mike and Dave Need Wedding Dates ›› (’ 16, Comedy) Zac Efron. Two hard-partying brothers bring two wild and uncontrollable women to their sister’s wedding in Hawaii. (cc)
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NOON . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Kung Fu Panda ››› (’ 08, Children’s) Voices of Jack Black. Animated. Chosen to fulfill an ancient prophecy, a clumsy panda must become a martial-arts master and defend his people from a villainous snow leopard. (cc) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . FREE 12:30 pm. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone ››› (’ 01, Children’s) Daniel Radcliffe. An orphan attends a school of witchcraft and wizardry and pieces together the mystery of his parents’ deaths. (cc) SYFY 12:30 pm. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Bad Boys II ›› (’ 03, Action) Martin Lawrence. Two detectives uncover a conspiracy involving a drug kingpin while trying to stop the trafficking of Ecstasy in Miami. (cc) AMC 1:00 pm . . . . . . . . It’s Complicated ›› (’09, Romance-Comedy) Meryl Streep. A restaurateur falls into an affair with her remarried ex-husband, while an architect that she hired to refurbish her kitchen falls in love with her. (cc) . . . . . . . . . BRV 1:00 pm . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Miracles for
Sale ›› (’ 39, Mystery) Robert Young. A maker of illusions for magicians protects an ingenue likely to be murdered. (cc)
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2:00 pm Creed ››› (’ 15, Drama) Michael B. Jordan. Long-retired boxer Rocky Balboa agrees to train Apollo Creed’s son to become a fighter, even as the former champ battles an opponent deadlier than any he ever faced in the ring. (cc) BET 2:00 pm Kung Fu Panda 2 ››› (’ 11, Children’s) Voices of Jack Black. Animated. Po must unlock secrets of his past in order to defeat a formidable villain who plans to wipe out kung fu and conquer China. (cc) FREE 2:00 pm . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Shrek Forever After ›› (’ 10, Children’s) Voices of Mike Myers. Animated. After Rumpelstiltskin tricks him into making a pact, Shrek finds himself in an alternate version of Far Far Away, in which he and Fiona never met. (cc) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . NICK
2:15 pm Fingers at the Window ›› (’ 42, Mystery) Lew Ayres. During a spree of axe murders in Chicago, Oliver sees a sinister figure following Edwina, and escorts her home. As he keeps watch, Oliver spots the man with an axe and tries to catch him to claim a reward. (cc) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . TCM
3:30 pm. . . . . . . . . It’s Complicated ›› (’09, Romance-Comedy) Meryl Streep. A restaurateur falls into an affair with her remarried ex-husband, while an architect that she hired to refurbish her kitchen falls in love with her. (cc) . . . . . . . . . BRV
3:30 pm. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Just Wright ›› (’ 10, Romance-Comedy) Queen Latifah. A physical therapist falls in love with her patient, a basketball player, but he only has eyes for her best friend. (cc) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . VH1
3:30 pm 12 Strong ›› (’ 18, War) Chris Hemsworth. In the wake of Sept. 11, Capt. Mitch Nelson leads a U.S. Special Forces team into Afghanistan to take down the Taliban and al-Qaida. Outgunned and outnumbered, Nelson and his forces face overwhelming odds in a fight against a ruthless enemy. (cc) . . . . . . . . . . . . . AMC
3:45 pm . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . The Strange Mr. Gregory ›› (’ 46, Mystery) Edmund Lowe. Hypnotist Gregory creates the illusion of his own murder and pins it on his girlfriend’s husband. . . . . . . TCM 4:00 pm . . . . . . . . . . . . Ride Along 2 ››
(’16, Comedy) Ice Cube. Lawmen James Payton and Ben Barber pursue a violent drug lord in Miami. (cc) . . . . . . . . . . . FX 4:02 pm Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets ››› (’ 02, Children’s) Daniel Radcliffe. The young wizard and his best friends investigate a dark force that is terrorizing their school, Hogwarts. (cc) SYFY 4:45 pm. . . . . . . . . . Fifty Shades of Grey
›› (’ 15, Romance) Dakota Johnson. An inexperienced college student begins a daring affair with a controlling businessman whose sexual proclivities push the boundaries of pain and pleasure. (cc) E! 5:00 pm Notorious ›› (’ 09, Biography) Angela Bassett. Christopher Wallace rises from the streets of Brooklyn as rap artist Notorious B.I.G., then is shot to death in 1997. (cc) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . BET 5:00 pm . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . The
Mad Magician ›› (’ 54, Horror) Vincent
Price. An 1880s magician creates illusions of mayhem that work. (cc) . . . . . . . TCM 6:00 pm Baby Mama ›› (’ 08, Comedy) Tina Fey. A battle of wills breaks out when a working-class gal moves in with the high-powered executive who hired her to be a surrogate mother. (cc) . . . . . . BRV 6:00 pm Mission: Impossible — Fallout ››› (’ 18, Action) Tom Cruise. An arms dealer and a group of terrorists plan to use three plutonium cores for a simultaneous nuclear attack. When the weapons go missing, Ethan Hunt and the IMF team must race against time to prevent them from falling into the wrong hands. (cc)
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6:00 pm . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Beauty Shop ›› (’ 05, Comedy) Queen Latifah. A determined hairstylist competes with her former boss after opening her own business in Atlanta. (cc). . . . . . . . . . VH1 6:00 pm . . . . . . . . . . . . . The SpongeBob Movie: Sponge Out of Water ››› (’ 15, Children’s) Voices of Tom Kenny. Live action/animated. Perpetual adversaries SpongeBob and Plankton join forces and come ashore to battle a pirate who has plans for the stolen Krabby Patties recipe. (cc) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . NICK
6:15 pm Two on a Guillotine ›› (’ 65, Horror) Connie Stevens. The daughter of a mad magician must sleep in his mansion to earn his estate; a newsman tags along. (cc) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . TCM 6:30 pm . . Divergent ›› (’ 14, Science Fiction) Shailene Woodley. In a future society, people are divided into factions based on their personalities. After a young woman learns she is a Divergent and will never fit into any one group, she uncovers a conspiracy to destroy all those like her. (cc) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . AMC 7:00 pm . . . . Couples Retreat ›› (’ 09, Comedy) Vince Vaughn. Four couples find that paradise comes at a price when they must participate in therapy sessions at a tropical resort. (cc) . . . . . . . . . . . . PARMT
7:15 pm . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Fifty Shades Darker ›› (’ 17, Romance) Dakota Johnson. Shadowy figures from Christian Grey’s past threaten to destroy his rekindled romance with Anastasia Steele. (cc) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . E!
7:59 pm . . . . Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban ››› (’ 04, Children’s) Daniel Radcliffe. The young wizard and his friends confront Sirius Black, a fugitive with ties to Harry’s past. (cc) . . . . SYFY 8:00 pm . . . The Red House ››› (’ 47, Suspense) Edward G. Robinson. A gloomy farmer forbids a hired hand, or anyone else, to go near a red house in the woods.
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8:00 pm . . . . . . All Eyez on Me ›› (’ 17, Biography) Demetrius Shipp Jr. The true and untold story of prolific rapper, actor, poet and activist Tupac Shakur, from his early days in New York to his status as one of the world’s most recognized and influential voices. (cc) . . . . . . . . . . . BET 8:00 pm . . . . . . . . . . . Miss Congeniality
›› (’ 00, Comedy) Sandra Bullock. An image consultant transforms a tomboyish FBI agent into a beauty queen so she can work under cover. (cc) . . . . . . . . . . . BRV 8:00 pm . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Fast & Furious 6 ›› (’ 13, Action) Vin Diesel. Agent Hobbs offers Dom Toretto and his crew a full pardon if they help him nab a gang of lethally skilled mercenary drivers whose second-in-command is someone they all know. (cc) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . TBS 8:00 pm . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Justice League ›› (’ 17, Action) Ben Affleck. Fueled by his restored faith in humanity and inspired by Superman’s selfless act, Batman and his new ally Wonder Woman recruit Aquaman, Cyborg and the Flash to help them save the planet from a newly awakened enemy. (cc) . . . . . . . . . . . TNT 8:00 pm Transformers: The Last Knight ›› (’ 17, Action) Mark Wahlberg. As war with the Transformers rages on, inventor Cade Yeager forms an unlikely alliance with Bumblebee, an English lord and an Oxford professor to save the planet. (cc) USA
8:00 pm The Manchurian Candidate ››› (’62, Suspense) Frank Sinatra. A Korean War hero’s commanding officer discovers he and his platoon were brainwashed.
(cc) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . TCM 9:30 pm . . . . . . . . . . . The Divergent Series: Insurgent ›› (’ 15, Science Fiction) Shailene Woodley. Fugitives Tris and Four search for allies and answers among the ruins of Chicago while arduously trying to evade Jeanine, leader of the Erudites. (cc) AMC
10:00 pm . . . . . . . . . . Miss Congeniality
›› (’ 00, Comedy) Sandra Bullock. An image consultant transforms a tomboyish FBI agent into a beauty queen so she can work under cover. (cc) . . . . . . . . . . . BRV 10:00 pm Coming to America ››› (’ 88, Comedy) Eddie Murphy. Pampered Prince Akeem of Zamunda comes to New York with his royal sidekick to find a true-love bride. (cc). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . COM 10:00 pm My Cousin Vinny ››› (’ 92, Comedy) Joe Pesci. A wise-guy Brooklyn lawyer and his motormouth girlfriend go to Alabama to defend his innocent cousin for murder. (cc) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . PARMT 10:00 pm Liar Liar ›› (’ 97, Comedy) Jim Carrey. A boy’s birthday wish comes true that his neglectful father, a fast-talking lawyer, will not be able to tell a lie for 24 hours. (cc) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . TRU
SATURDAY
6:00 am Gunga Din ›››› (’ 39, Adventure) Cary Grant. British soldiers and their water carrier face Thuggee cultists at the Khyber Pass in 1890s India. (cc) . . TCM 8:00 am . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Mike and Dave Need Wedding Dates ›› (’ 16, Comedy) Zac Efron. Two hard-partying brothers bring two wild and uncontrollable women to their sister’s wedding in Hawaii. (cc)
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8:00 am The Best Man ››› (’ 99, ComedyDrama) Taye Diggs. A writer heads to New York to be best man at a friend’s wedding, where he meets up with an old flame. (cc) FREE
8:30 am Burlesque ›› (’ 10, Drama) Cher. With help from a savvy stage manager and a gender-bending host, a cocktail waitress with a stunning voice becomes a performer in a club’s musical revue. (cc)
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10:00 am . . Casa de mi padre ›› (’ 12, Comedy) Will Ferrell. All hell breaks loose when the most feared drug lord in Mexico declares war on a rancher and his family. (cc) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . FX 10:08 am . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Dr. Kildare Goes Home ›› (’ 40, Drama) Lew Ayres. Young Kildare woos nurse Lamont, assists Dr. Gillespie and solves a medical crisis in his hometown. (cc) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . TCM 10:30 am . . Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban ››› (’ 04, Children’s) Daniel Radcliffe. The young wizard and his friends confront Sirius Black, a fugitive with ties to Harry’s past. (cc) . . . . SYFY 11:00 am. . . Twister ››› (’ 96, Action) Helen Hunt. Storm-chasers finalizing their divorce try to place equipment inside a tornado on the Oklahoma plains. (cc) USA