HIGHLIGHTS

Russian mobsters who destroyed everything he held dear. (cc). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . USA 2:00 pm . . . . . . . . The Candidate ★★★ (’ 72, Comedy-Drama) Robert Redford. An image maker grooms the son of a political boss for a token bid in a U.S. Senate race. (cc) . TCM 2:30 pm 17 Again ★★ (’ 09, Comedy) Zac Efron. A 37-year-old gets the chance to correct the mistakes of his past when he is miraculously transformed into a teenager. (cc) . . . . . . . E! 3:00 pm . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Penny Serenade ★★★ (’ 41, Drama) Irene Dunne. A woman contemplating divorce from her husband recalls their early years together and the tragedies that ensued. . . . . . . . 1 3:00 pm Ocean’s Twelve ★★★ (’ 04, ComedyDrama) George Clooney. To pay back casino boss Terry Benedict, Danny Ocean and his team of criminals plan an elaborate heist in Europe. (cc) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . BRV 3:00 pm . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Captain America: The Winter Soldier ★★★ (’ 14, Action) Chris Evans. Captain America, the Black Widow and a new ally, the Falcon, face an unexpected enemy as they struggle to expose a far-reaching conspiracy that puts the world at risk. (cc) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . FX 3:00 pm . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Field of Dreams ★★★ (’ 89, Fantasy) Kevin Costner. An inspired Iowa farmer builds a baseball field, then sees Shoeless Joe Jackson’s ghost and other marvels. (cc). . . . . . . . . . . . PARMT 3:00 pm . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Red ★★ (’ 10, Action) Bruce Willis. Retired CIA agents reassemble for survival after the agency sends assassins to silence them and the secrets they carry. (cc) . . . . . . . . . . AMC 3:15 pm. . . . . . . . . . . . . We’re the Millers ★★

(’13, Comedy) Jennifer Aniston. Indebted to a big-time drug lord, a pot dealer travels to Mexico with a fake family and a camper to pick up a large shipment and smuggle it into the U.S. (cc) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . TBS 3:15 pm. . . . . . . . . . . . . . Gremlins ★★★ (’ 84, Fantasy) Zach Galligan. An inventor gives his son an odd little creature which multiplies into monsters which wreck the town. (cc) TNT 3:20 pm Chicken Little ★★ (’ 05, Children’s) Voices of Zach Braff. Animated. A young fowl and his friends flock together to save skeptical townsfolk from an alien attack. (cc) FREE 3:30 pm . . White Chicks ★★ (’ 04, Comedy) Shawn Wayans. Two male FBI agents pose as female socialites to foil a kidnapping plot and save their jobs. (cc) . . . . . . . . . . . . . MTV 3:30 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 4:00 pm. . . . Tyler Perry’s Meet the Browns ★★ (’ 08, Comedy-Drama) Tyler Perry. Soon after losing her job, a single mother takes her brood to Georgia for her father’s funeral and meets his uproarious clan for the first time. (cc). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . BET 4:00 pm. . . . . . . . . . . . Captain America: Civil War ★★★ (’ 16, Action) Chris Evans. Black Widow and Hawkeye must pick a side when a feud between Captain America and Iron Man leaves the Avengers in turmoil. (cc) USA 4:00 pm. . . . . . . . A Warm December ★★★

(’73, Romance) Sidney Poitier. An American doctor in London falls in love with an African diplomat’s niece who has sickle-cell anemia. (cc) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . TCM 4:30 pm . . . . . How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days ★★ (’ 03, Romance-Comedy) Kate Hudson. A columnist tries to make a man dump her, but he bets his boss that she will fall in love. (cc) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . E! 4:30 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 5:30 pm . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Draft Day ★★ (’ 14, Drama) Kevin Costner. On the day of the NFL Draft, the general manager of the Cleveland Browns must decide what he’s willing to sacrifice as he angles for the number-one pick. (cc). . . . . . . . . . . . . PARMT 5:30 pm . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Charlie and the Chocolate Factory ★★★ (’ 05, Children’s) Johnny Depp. A poor boy and four spoiled children win a tour through the incredible factory of an odd confectioner. (cc) . . TNT 5:30 pm . . . . . . Red 2 ★★ (’ 13, Action) Bruce Willis. Former CIA black-ops agent Frank Moses and his team battle assassins, terrorists and power-hungry government officials as they try to retrieve a lethal device that could change the balance of world power. (cc) AMC 6:00 pm The Expendables ★★ (’ 10, Action) Sylvester Stallone. A mercenary and his men learn that their assignment to overthrow a South American dictator is a suicide mission. (cc) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . FX 6:00 pm. . . . . . Fist Fight ★★ (’ 17, Comedy) Charlie Day. Fired from his teaching job for losing his cool, a disgruntled man challenges the colleague who snitched on him to a fight after school. (cc) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . MTV 6:00 pm. . . Freedom on My Mind ★★ (’ 94, Documentary) Filmmaker Connie Field and Marilyn Mulford profile the Mississippi voter registration project from 1961-’64. . . . . TCM 6:30 pm . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire ★★★ (’ 05, Fantasy) Daniel Radcliffe. Signs of Voldemort’s return emerge as Harry’s friends help him prepare for a tournament with Europe’s best student wizards. (cc). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . SYFY 7:00 pm . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Welcome Home Roscoe Jenkins ★★ (’ 08, Comedy) Martin Lawrence. Determined to prove to his family how much he has changed, a talk-show star returns to his small Southern hometown for his parents’ anniversary. (cc) . . . . . . . . . BET 7:00 pm . . . . . . . . . . . The Proposal ★★ (’ 09, Romance-Comedy) Sandra Bullock. Facing deportation to Canada, a high-powered book editor pretends she is engaged to her assistant, whom she’s tormented for years. (cc) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . E! 7:00 pm . . . . . . . . . . . . Captain America: Civil War ★★★ (’ 16, Action) Chris Evans. Black Widow and Hawkeye must pick a side when a feud between Captain America and Iron Man leaves the Avengers in turmoil. (cc) USA 7:30 pm . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . The Secret Life of Pets 2 ★★ (’ 19, Children’s) Voices of Patton Oswalt. Premiere. Animated. Explore the emotional lives of pets and the deep bond between them and the families that love them as Max, Gidget, Snowball and the rest of the gang take on new adventures and push themselves to find the courage to become their own heroes. (cc) . . . . . . FREE 8:00 pm. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Mr. & Mrs. Smith ★★ (’ 05, Action) Brad Pitt. A husband and wife are unaware that each is an international assassin who has just been assigned to kill the other. (cc) . . . . . . . . BRV 8:00 pm. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . The Expendables 2 ★★ (’ 12, Action) Sylvester Stallone. Mercenary Barney Ross and his team cut a swath of destruction through opposing forces as they take revenge for the vicious murder of a comrade. (cc) . . . . . FX 8:00 pm. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Ride Along ★★ (’ 14, Comedy) Ice Cube. A veteran cop and his future brother-in-law, a fast-talking trainee, tangle with Atlanta’s most-dangerous criminal. (cc). . . . . . . MTV 8:00 pm. . . . . . . . . . . . Man of Steel ★★ (’ 13, Action) Henry Cavill. Though struggling with the ramifications of his extraordinary origin and abilities, young Clark Kent must become a hero and save those he loves from a dire threat. (cc) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . PARMT 8:00 pm. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . National Lampoon’s Christmas Vacation ★★★

(’89, Comedy) Chevy Chase. The Griswolds spend the holiday in a garish way, especially when a country cousin pulls up in an RV. (cc)

TBS

8:00 pm. . . . The Polar Express ★★★ (’ 04, Children’s) Voices of Tom Hanks. Animated. The conductor of a train to the North Pole guides a boy who questions the existence of Santa Claus. (cc). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . TNT 8:00 pm Friday ★★★ (’ 95, Comedy) Ice Cube. A South Central Los Angeles resident hangs out on his front porch with a pal who owes money to a drug dealer. (cc). . . . . . . . . . VH1 8:00 pm. . . . . . . . . . The French Connection ★★★★ (’ 71, Crime Drama) Gene Hackman. New York Detective Popeye Doyle and his partner chase a French heroin smuggler. (cc)

TCM

9:00 pm. . A Fish Called Wanda ★★★ (’ 88, Comedy) John Cleese. An American flirts with a crook, a barrister and a mercenary to find diamonds in London.. . . . . . . . . . . . ^ 9:30 pm . . . . . . . . . . . The Proposal ★★ (’ 09, Romance-Comedy) Sandra Bullock. Facing deportation to Canada, a high-powered book editor pretends she is engaged to her assistant, whom she’s tormented for years. (cc) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . E! 10:00 pm . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . The Expendables 3 ★★ (’ 14, Action) Sylvester Stallone. After a former associate makes it his mission to end the Expendables, Barney Ross assembles a team of younger, tech-savvy recruits to help take down their enemy. (cc) . . . . . . . . . . . FX 10:00 pm Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix ★★★ (’ 07, Fantasy) Daniel Radcliffe. When a new professor’s bureaucratic methods leave Hogwarts unprepared to fight the rising tide of evil, Harry teaches a dedicated group of students how to defend against the dark arts. (cc) . . . . . . . . . . . SYFY 10:00 pm . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Charlie and the Chocolate Factory ★★★ (’ 05, Children’s) Johnny Depp. A poor boy and four spoiled children win a tour through the incredible factory of an odd confectioner. (cc) . . TNT 10:00 pm . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . John Wick ★★★ (’ 14, Action) Keanu Reeves. New York City becomes the bullet-riddled playground of a former assassin as he hunts down the Russian mobsters who destroyed everything he held dear. (cc). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . USA 10:00 pm . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Next Friday ★★ (’ 00, Comedy) Ice Cube. To avoid being beaten up, a young man goes to live with his uncle, who just won the lottery. (cc) . . VH1 10:00 pm . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . To Live and Die in L.A. ★★ (’ 85, Crime Drama) William L. Petersen. A Secret Service agent bends and breaks the law to nab an artist/ counterfeiter in Los Angeles. (cc) . . . . . TCM