TV FILMS OF THE WEEK
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HIRO HAMADA (voiced by Ryan Potter) idolises his older brother Tadashi, who is a star pupil at the robotics program at San Fransokyo University. A fire on campus culminates in tragedy and shell-shocked Hiro is inconsolable until his brother’s greatest creation, a self-inflating personal healthcare robot called Baymax (Scott Adsit), helps the teenager to confront his loss. Based on an obscure Marvel comicbook, Big Hero 6 is a rip-roaring animated romp, which embraces the old-fashioned family values of the Disney brand alongside cutting-edge computer technology.
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ALL THE MONEY IN THE WORLD Tomorrow, Channel 4, 9pm
RIDLEY SCOTT’S propulsive thriller is based on one version of events surrounding the 1973 kidnapping of 16-year-old John Paul Getty III (Charlie Plummer). Oil tycoon J Paul Getty (Christopher Plummer, pictured) refuses to plunder a single cent from his billion-dollar empire, coldly arguing that if he paid a ransom for one grandchild he would set a precedent.
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CALL ME BY YOUR NAME Monday, Film4, 9pm
THIS sensual, coming-of-age drama chronicles the relationship between Elio (Timothée Chalamet, left), a 17-year-old living in Italy, and his father’s American assistant, Oliver (Armie Hammer). Screenwriter James Ivory spares us neither intense pleasure nor body-shaking anguish as he details their passionate affair against the sun-kissed backdrop.
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CAROL Tuesday, Film4, 11.15pm
THERESE BELIVET (Rooney Mara) works in Frankenberg’s department store. She has a boyfriend, Richard (Jake Lacy), but her life is dull until glamorous housewife Carol Aird (Cate Blanchett, pictured with Mara) sashays into the store. Their encounter leads to an affair, which prompts Carol’s estranged husband to seek sole custody of their daughter.
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ON CHESIL BEACH Wednesday, BBC2, 9pn
SKILFULLY adapted by Ian McEwan from his Booker Prize-nominated novella, this is a heartbreaking portrait of doomed love. Saoirse Ronan and Billy Howle, pictured, are trembling virginal newlyweds, who are ill-equipped to navigate the minefields of each other’s insecurities and sensitively handled intimations of sexual abuse by one parent.
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THE NICE GUYS Thursday, ITV4, 11pm
HIRED heavy Jackson Healy (Russell Crowe) is paid by a young woman to scare off the low-rent private detective Holland March (Ryan Gosling, pictured with Crowe), who has been asking for her around town. The first meeting of these two men ends in bloodshed and broken bones, but Jackson and Holland agree to work together when the woman vanishes.
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THE LADY IN THE VAN Friday, BBC1, 10.45pm
PLAYWRIGHT Alan Bennett (Alex Jennings) moves into a house in Camden. Soon after, the cantankerous Miss Shepherd (Maggie Smith, pictured with Jennings) settles in the same street in her ramshackle vehicle. Alan lets her take up temporary residence on his driveway. Months turn into years and the playwright becomes Miss Shepherd’s guardian.