Miami Herald (Sunday)

THIS WEEK’S MOVIE HIGHLIGHTS

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kill for the priceless numerical code she carries in her head. (cc) . . . . . . . . . . . . .

12:15 pm . . . . . . . . Doctor Zhivago

(’65, Romance) Omar Sharif. The Russian Revolution forms the backdrop for this tale of a sensitive Russian physician who is torn between his loyal, long-suffering wife and the great love of his life. (cc)TCM

1:00 pm . . Sicario (’15, Suspense) Emily Blunt. Members of a government task force travel back-and-forth across the U.S.-Mexican border, using one cartel boss to flush out a bigger one. (cc) .

1:00 pm . . Blade 2: Bloodhunt (’02, Horror) Wesley Snipes. Blade forms an alliance with a band of hardened enemies in order to battle powerful vampires. (cc)

1:00 pm . . To Grandmothe­r’s House We Go (’92, Comedy) Mary-Kate Olsen. Two goofy crooks kidnap twin little girls who have left home to get out of their mother’shair.(cc) ................

1:05 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)

1:30pm ........................... Just Go With It (’11, Romance-Comedy) Adam Sandler. A plastic surgeon enlists the aid of his assistant and her children to help him win the heart of a beautiful woman.(cc) ......................

2:00 pm . . . . The Legend of Tarzan

(’16, Adventure) Alexander Skarsgard. Lured from Victorian England to the wilds of the Congo, Tarzan must return to the jungle to save his captive wife from King Leopold’s devious envoy. (cc) . . . . .

2:00 pm . . . . 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) .............................

2:30pm ................... Barbershop

(’02, Comedy) Ice Cube. The owner of a popular barbershop considers selling the place to a loan shark who wants to convert it into a strip club. (cc) . . . . .

3:00 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) . . . . . . . . . . . .

3:00pm ............................... Rudolph and Frosty’s Christmas in July

(’80, Children’s) Voices of Red Buttons. Animated. Santa must save the day when Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer and Frosty the Snowman encounter an evilwizard.(cc) ..................

3:30pm ................................ Sicario: Day of the Soldado (’18, Suspense) Benicio Del Toro. FBI agent Matt Graver calls on operative Alejandro Gillick when Mexican drug cartels start to smuggle terrorists across the U.S. border. The war escalates even further when Alejandro kidnaps a kingpin’s daughter to deliberate­ly increase the tensions. (cc)FX

3:30 pm . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Journey to the Center of the Earth (’08, Children’s) Brendan Fraser. A science professor and his nephew encounter strange creatures and stranger lands as they travel beneath the Earth’s surface. (cc) . . . . . . . . . . . 3:45pm .......................... Little Women (’49, Drama) June Allyson. Based on the story by Louisa May Alcott. The four March sisters forge unbreakabl­e emotional ties during the Civil War. (cc)

4:00 pm . . . . . . . . . . . . Casper (’95, Children’s) Christina Ricci. A teen who lost her mother befriends friendly ghost Casper while staying at a mean heiress’s haunted mansion. (cc) . . . . . . . . . . . .

4:30 pm . . . . . . Kong: Skull Island

(’17, Adventure) Tom Hiddleston. Scientists, soldiers and adventurer­s encounter the mighty Kong and other monstrous creatures after traveling to an uncharted island in the Pacific Ocean. (cc) . . .

4:33pm ................. Transforme­rs: Dark of the Moon (’11, Action) Shia LaBeouf. Premiere. Again, Earth is caught in the middle when the resurrecti­on of an ancient Transforme­r appears to turn the tide against the Autobots in their longstandi­ng war with evil Decepticon­s. (cc)

5:30pm ................. TheWedding Singer (’98, Romance-Comedy) Adam Sandler. A spirited entertaine­r and a waitress with a boorish fiance work at the same weddings. (cc) . . . . . . . . . .

5:35pm ................. Journey2:The Mysterious Island (’12, Children’s) Dwayne Johnson. Sean Anderson and his new stepfather find an island of secrets, strange life forms, and gold when they answer a coded distress signal. (cc)SYFY

6:00 pm . . . . . . . . . . . . . Ride Along 2

(’16, Comedy) Ice Cube. Lawmen James Payton and Ben Barber pursue a violent druglordin­Miami.(cc) .............

6:00 pm Snow Day (’00, Children’s) Chris Elliott. Students steal a snow plow and fend off its crazy driver in an attempt to keep school closed for a second day. (cc) ..............................

6:00 pm Wuthering Heights (’39, Romance) Merle Oberon. Emily Brontë’s gothic heroine Cathy loves stableboy Heathcliff but marries squire Edgar. (cc)

6:30pm ............................... Tarzan (’99, Children’s) Voices of Tony Goldwyn. Animated. A man raised by apes in the African jungle encounters a professor, his daughter and a suspicious hunter.(cc) ......................

7:00pm ............................... Die Hard (’88, Action) Bruce Willis. A New York policeman outwits foreign thugs holding his wife and others in a Los Angeles high-rise. (cc) . . . . . . . . . .

7:40 pm . . . . . . . Clash of the Titans

(’10, Fantasy) Sam Worthingto­n. Perseus, the son of Zeus, embarks on a dangerous mission to prevent Hades from toppling the king of the gods and laying waste to Earth.(cc) .......................

8:00 pm Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle

(’17, Adventure) Dwayne Johnson. Four teens embark on the adventure of a lifetime when a video game magically transports them to the jungle and transforms them into adults. (cc) . . . . . . . .

8:00 pm Scrooged (’88, Comedy) Bill Murray. A ruthless TV-network chief meets the ghosts of Christmase­s past, present and yet to come. (cc) . . . . .

8:00 pm . . . . . . Father Goose (’64, Comedy) Cary Grant. A stranded French teacher and her girls join an island beach bum paid in booze to spot enemy planes. (cc) ..............................

8:30pm ............... Coco (’17, Children’s) Voices of Anthony Gonzalez. Animated. Accompanie­d by a charming trickster, a young musician embarks on an extraordin­ary journey through the colorful Land of the Dead to unlock the real story behind his family’s history. (cc)FREE

9:00pm ........................... Ice Age (’02, Children’s) Voices of Ray Romano. Animated. A woolly mammoth, a saber-toothed tiger and a sloth find a human baby and try to reunite him with histribe.(cc) .....................

10:00pm ..............................

Die Hard (’88, Action) Bruce Willis. A New York policeman outwits foreign thugs holding his wife and others in a Los Angeles high-rise. (cc) . . . . . . . . . .

10:00 pm . . . . . . . . . . . Planes, Trains and Automobile­s (’87, Comedy) Steve Martin. An ad exec and a shower-curtainrin­g salesman become co-travelers on the way to Thanksgivi­ng in Chicago. (cc)AMC

6:00am ........................ Flying Down to Rio (’33, Musical) Dolores del Río. A bandleader woos a Latin flame who is already engaged to his employer. The film features the first screen pairing of Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers. (cc)TCM

7:00 am Holiday in Handcuffs (’07,

Romance-Comedy) Melissa Joan Hart. To fool her parents, a waitress kidnaps a customer and forces him to pretend to be herbeau.(cc) ....................

8:00am ...................... TheGay Divorcee (’34, Musical Comedy) Fred Astaire. A woman thinks a flirting man is the co-respondent her lawyer has hired to expedite her divorce. (cc)

9:00 am . . . . A Nightmare on Elm Street

(’84, Horror) John Saxon. Freddy Krueger, a badly burned boogeyman with razors on his glove, haunts and kills teens intheirdre­ams.(cc) ..............

9:00 am Rudolph and Frosty’s Christmas in July (’80, Children’s) Voices of Red Buttons. Animated. Santa must save the day when Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer and Frosty the Snowman encounter anevilwiza­rd.(cc) ................

9:30am ............................... The Dead Don’t Die (’19, Comedy) Bill Murray. The citizens of the sleepy little town of Centervill­e find themselves under attack by flesh-eating zombies when the dead rise from their graves. (cc) . . . .

10:00am ............... Roberta

(’35, Musical Comedy) Irene Dunne. An American jazzman and his buddy woo a Russian princess and a fake countess in Paris.(cc) ........................

11:00 am. Paul Blart: Mall Cop (’09,

Comedy) Kevin James. When crooks shut down a suburban New Jersey shopping mall, a security officer must find his inner policeman to save the day. (cc) . . .

11:05am .................... TheSanta Clause (’94, Children’s) Tim Allen. An adman takes over for the bearded, big-bellied fellow after a rooftop mishap on Christmas Eve. (cc) . . . . . . . . . . . .

11:30 am . . . . . . . . . . . . Planes, Trains and Automobile­s (’87, Comedy) Steve Martin. An ad exec and a shower-curtainrin­g salesman become co-travelers on the way to Thanksgivi­ng in Chicago. (cc)AMC 11:45am .............. FollowtheF­leet

(’36, Musical Comedy) Fred Astaire. Half of a song-and-dance team spends shore leave with the one who drove him intotheNav­y.(cc) ................

1:00pm .................... Freddyvs. Jason (’03, Horror) Robert Englund. Teens are caught in the middle of a battle between the razor-clawed Freddy and the masked killer Jason. (cc) . . . . . . . . . .

1:15 pm . . . . . . . . The Santa Clause 2

(’02, Children’s) Tim Allen. Scott Calvin’s world turns upside down when he’s dealt a double whammy of bad news: Not only has his son, Charlie, landed on this year’s naughty list, but Scott has to marry by Christmas Eve, or he will stop being Santa Clausforev­er.(cc) ................

1:30 pm . Scrooged (’88, Comedy)

Bill Murray. A ruthless TV-network chief meets the ghosts of Christmase­s past, present and yet to come. (cc) . . . . .

1:45pm ................ ShallWeDan­ce

(’37, Musical Comedy) Fred Astaire. Ballet dancer Petrov woos a musical star at sea and in New York, despite rumors of theirmarri­age.(cc) ...............

2:00pm ............................... Horrible Bosses (’11, Comedy) Jason Bateman. Three oppressed workers devise a complex and seemingly foolproof plan to rid themselves of their intolerabl­e employers.(cc) ....................

2:30pm ........... SetItOff (’96, Action) Jada Pinkett. Desperatio­n drives four inner-city women to bank robbery in Los Angeles, then they start mistrustin­g oneanother.(cc) ..................

3:00 pm The Blind Side (’09, Drama) Sandra Bullock. A well-to-do white family takes in a homeless black teen and helps him realize his potential on and off the footballfi­eld.(cc) ..................

3:00 pm . . . Inferno (’16, Suspense) Tom Hanks. Amnesiac symbologis­t Robert Langdon and a doctor race across Europe and against time to stop a madman from unleashing a virus that could wipe out half of the world’s population. (cc)SYFY

3:00pm ........................... The Heat (’13, Comedy) Sandra Bullock. An arrogant, methodical FBI agent must join forces with a foul-mouthed, erratic Boston detective to bring down a ruthless druglord.(cc) ....................

3:30 pm Snow Day (’00, Children’s) Chris Elliott. Students steal a snow plow and fend off its crazy driver in an attempt to keep school closed for a second day. (cc) ..............................

4:00 pm A Very Harold & Kumar Christmas

(’11, Comedy) John Cho. Six years after their last adventure, the infamous stoners reunite on Christmas Eve to find a replacemen­t tree for the one Harold sent upinsmoke.(cc) ...................

4:00 pm . . . . . . . . The Story of Vernon & Irene Castle (’39, Biography) Fred Astaire. A vaudevilli­an and his bride go to Paris and set trends as famous ballroom dancers.(cc) .....................

5:30 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 intotheU.S.(cc) ..................

5:30pm ............................... Menace II Society (’93, Drama) Tyrin Turner. Crime, street sense and the status quo roil the mind of a teenager in the Watts section of Los Angeles. (cc)

5:30 pm . Fred Claus (’07, Comedy) Vince Vaughn. The yuletide season brings headaches for Santa Claus, who bails his ne’er-do-well brother Fred out of trouble and puts him to work in his factory. (cc)

5:50 pm . . . . . . Home Alone (’90, Children’s) Macaulay Culkin. Accidental­ly left by his Paris-bound family, an 8-yearold makes mincemeat of two burglars in thehouse.(cc) ...................

6:00 pm . . . . . Tyler Perry’s Madea’s Witness Protection (’12, Comedy) Tyler Perry. Placed under federal protection in Madea’s Southern home, a Wall Street banker and his dysfunctio­nal family get a taste of the no-nonsense matriarch’s special brand of tough love. (cc) . .

6:00 pm The Blind Side (’09, Drama) Sandra Bullock. A well-to-do white family takes in a homeless black teen and helps him realize his potential on and off the footballfi­eld.(cc) ..................

6:00 pm . . . . . . . . . The Night Before

(’15, Comedy) Joseph Gordon-Levitt. As their annual reunion tradition comes to an end, three lifelong friends plan a night of debauchery and hilarity by searching for the Nutcracka Ball, the Holy Grail of Christmas parties in New York. (cc) .

6:00 pm . . . . The Barkleys of Broadway

(’49, Musical) Fred Astaire. Half of a husband-and-wife dance team wants to be an actress, so they split up. (cc)

7:30pm ................................ Training Day (’01, Crime Drama) Denzel Washington. A rookie cop meets a corrupt Los Angeles narcotics officer who wants to include him in his schemes. (cc)

8:00 pm Office Christmas Party (’16, Comedy) Jason Bateman. Hoping to close a sale and save their jobs, two co-workers must rally their colleagues to throw an epic Christmas party. (cc) . . . . . . . . . . .

8:00 pm Salt (’10, Action) Angelina Jolie. After a defector accuses her of spying for the Russians, a CIA officer goes on the run and tries to come up with a way to establish her innocence. (cc) . .

8:00pm .............. TheSpongeB­ob Movie: Sponge Out of Water (’15, Children’s) Voices of Tom Kenny. Live action/animated. Perpetual adversarie­s

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