Miami Herald (Sunday)

THIS WEEK’S MOVIE HIGHLIGHTS

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6:00am .............................. The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn Part 2 (’12, Romance) Kristen Stewart. Bella and Edward gather werewolves, vampires and other allies to help them protect their daughter from the Volturi. (cc) ...............................

6:00 am . . . . The Catered Affair

(’56, Comedy-Drama) Bette Davis. An Irish cabby in the Bronx watches his wife go overboard planning their daughter’s wedding.(cc) ...................

7:00am .............................. X-Men: Days of Future Past (’14, Action) Hugh Jackman. The X-Men join forces with their younger selves in order to change the past and save mankind’s future as well as their own. (cc) . . .

7:00am ........................ Meet the Robinsons (’07, Children’s) Voices of Angela Bassett. Animated. A mysterious time-traveler named Wilbur Robinson takes a boy genius on a trip to the future to spend a day with Wilbur’s eccentric family. (cc) . . . . . . . . . . . .

7:10 am Knight and Day (’10, Action) Tom Cruise. A woman gets ensnared in a deadly, global adventure when she becomes the reluctant partner of a fugitive spy.(cc) .........................

8:00 am The Old Maid (’39, Drama) Bette Davis. Her suitor’s Civil War death forces an unwed mother to let her married cousin raise her daughter. (cc)TCM

8:15 am . . Twilight (’08, Romance) Kristen Stewart. A high-school student is caught up in a romance with a vampire, whose family has renounced the drinkingof­blood.(cc) ..................

9:10am ............................... Mrs. Doubtfire (’93, Children’s) Robin Williams. Estranged from his wife, an out-of-work actor masquerade­s as a nanny to be with his children. (cc)FREE

9:30 am Bridget Jones’s Baby (’16, Romance-Comedy) Renée Zellweger. Befuddled mom-to-be Bridget Jones must figure out which of the two men in her life is the father of her child. (cc) .

10:00 am . . . The Amazing Spider-Man 2 (’14, Action) Andrew Garfield. The emergence of a powerful new villain and the return of an old friend bring Peter Parker to the realizatio­n that all his enemies have one thing in common: Oscorp.(cc) ......................

10:00am ..................... NoMan of Her Own (’50, Drama) Barbara Stanwyck. An unwed mother assumes a dead bride’s identity and moves in with herrichin-laws ..................

10:30 am . . . . . . . . . . . The Color Purple

(’85, Drama) Whoopi Goldberg. A black Southern woman struggles to find her identity after suffering years of abuse from her father and others over 40years.(cc) ....................

11:00am ................... TheGreen Mile (’99, Drama) Tom Hanks. In 1935 a head prison guard realizes a man on death row may be innocent and have a supernatur­al ability to heal others. (cc) 11:05 am . . . . . . . . . . . The Twilight Saga: New Moon (’09, Romance) Kristen Stewart. After the abrupt departure of Edward, Bella develops a deep friendship with Jacob and is drawn into the world of werewolves. (cc) . . . . . . . . . .

11:40 am 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). .

NOON ........ KnockedUp (’07, Romance-Comedy) Seth Rogen. A rising journalist and an irresponsi­ble slacker ponder their future after a boozy onenight stand results in a pregnancy. (cc)

NOON ...................... Imitation of Life (’34, Drama) Claudette Colbert. A young widow and her maid build a booming pancake business while raising their daughters. (cc) . . . . . .

12:15pm ..................... Jumanji

(’95, Children’s) Robin Williams. A magic board-game brings forth African perils and a guy who disappeare­d in 1969 while playing it. (cc) . . . . . . .

1:00 pm . . . . . Crazy Rich Asians

(’18, Romance-Comedy) Constance Wu. Rachel Chu is happy to accompany her longtime boyfriend, Nick, to his best friend’s wedding in Singapore. She’s also surprised to learn that Nick’s family is extremely wealthy and he’s considered one of the country’s most eligible bachelors.(cc) .......................

1:01 pm . . . . . . . . Spider-Man: Far From Home (’19, Action) Tom Holland. Spider-Man teams up with Nick Fury and fellow superhero Mysterio to stop four massive elemental creatures — each representi­ng Earth, air, water and fire — from wreaking havoc across Europe. (cc)

1:30 pm. . . Planet of the Apes (’01, Science Fiction) Mark Wahlberg. In 2029 an astronaut leads a human uprising against a military leader and his army of ruling simians. (cc) . . . . . . . . . . . . .

1:30pm ............................... American Gangster (’07, Crime Drama) Denzel Washington. A Harlem mobster combines ingenuity and strict business codes to dominate organized crime, while a veteran cop searches for a way to bring him down. (cc) . . . . .

1:55 pm . . . . . . . . . . National Lampoon’s European Vacation (’85, Comedy) Chevy Chase. The Chicago Griswolds win a grand tour and head for the Old World to soak up culture. (cc) . . . . . . . . . .

2:00 pm . . . . Life of the Party (’18, Comedy) Melissa McCarthy. Dumped by her husband, longtime housewife Deanna turns regret into reset by going back to college. Winding up at the same school as her daughter, Deanna plunges headlong into the campus experience — embracing the fun, the freedom and the fratboys.(cc) ...................

2:00 pm The Sun Comes Up (’49, Musical) Jeanette MacDonald. Lassie and an orphan befriend a widowed concert singer who has lost a son and moved to ruralGeorg­ia.(cc) ...............

2:05 pm . . . . . The Twilight Saga: Eclipse

(’10, Romance) Kristen Stewart. Bella must choose between Edward and Jacob amid a string of mysterious killings and a malicious vampire’s quest for revenge.(cc) ......................

2:20pm ...................... 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) ....................

3:00 pm . The Shawshank Redemption

(’94, Drama) Tim Robbins. Two life sentences for a 1947 double murder land an innocent man in a corrupt Maine penitentia­ry.(cc) ................

3:00 pm . . . . . . Hotel Transylvan­ia

(’12, Children’s) Voices of Adam Sandler. Animated. An unforeseen complicati­on unfolds when Dracula invites the world’s most-infamous monsters to his lavish resort to celebrate his daughter’s 118th birthday.(cc) ...................

4:00 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) . . . . . . . .

4:00 pm . . . Constantin­e (’05, Fantasy) Keanu Reeves. A man who can see demons helps a skeptical policewoma­n investigat­e her twin sister’s mysterious death.(cc) .....................

4:00 pm . . . . . . . Bunny Lake Is Missing

(’65, Mystery) Laurence Olivier. A Scotland Yard inspector seeks a woman’s missing daughter, who no one can prove exists.(cc) ......................

4:25pm ...................... Tangled

(’10, Children’s) Voices of Mandy Moore. Animated. Crowned with 70 feet of magical golden hair, Rapunzel strikes a deal with a charming thief to spring her from her prison tower. (cc). .

4:55pm ............................... The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn Part 1 (’11, Romance) Kristen Stewart. A chain of events, set off by Edward and Bella’s marriage, honeymoon and birth of a child, yields a shocking developmen­tforJacob.(cc) ...............

5:00 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) .

5:00pm ............... TheEqualiz­er

(’14, Action) Denzel Washington. A former commando comes out of retirement and puts his special skills to work to rescue a girl who is under the control of ruthless Russian mobsters. (cc)

5:55 pm . National Lampoon’s Vacation

(’83, Comedy) Chevy Chase. The Griswolds and family head by station wagon for the California fun park Walley World.(cc) ...................... 6:00 pm Aquaman (’18, Action) Jason Momoa. Aquaman must retrieve the legendary Trident of Atlan to save the underwater city of Atlantis — and the surface world — from his power-hungry brother.(cc) ....................

6:00 pm Madame X (’66, Drama) Lana Turner. A young lawyer defends an alcoholic woman accused of murder, unaware that she is his mother. (cc)TCM

6:30pm ...................... Doctor Strange (’16, Action) Benedict Cumberbatc­h. After a terrible accident, Dr. Stephen Strange loses his ability to operate but finds new purpose when a mystical being known as the Ancient One reveals that Dr. Strange is the newly designated Sorcerer Supreme. (cc)SYFY

6:35 pm. . . Brave (’12, Children’s) Voices of Kelly Macdonald. Animated. A courageous Scottish princess must figure out how to undo a beastly curse after an eccentric witch grants her an ill-fatedwish.(cc) ..............

7:00 pm . . Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day

(’14, Children’s) Steve Carell. An 11-yearold boy experience­s the worst day of his young life but soon learns that he’s not alone when other members of his family encounter their own calamities. (cc)DISN

7:02 pm . . . . . . The Avengers (’12, Action) Robert Downey Jr. S.H.I.E.L.D.’s Nick Fury recruits a team of superheroe­s to pull the world back from the brink of disaster when an unexpected enemy threatens global security. (cc) . . . . .

7:30pm ............................... The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn Part 2 (’12, Romance) Kristen Stewart. Bella and Edward gather werewolves, vampires and other allies to help them protect their daughter from the Volturi. (cc) ...............................

8:00 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). .

8:00pm ............................ 8 Mile (’02, Drama) Eminem. Living with his destitute mother, a young man in Detroit tries to overcome obstacles and achieve success as a rapper. (cc)VH1

8:00pm .............................. Paddington 2 (’17, Children’s) Voice of Ben Whishaw. Live action/animated. One fine day, Paddington spots a pop-up book in an antique shop — the perfect present for his beloved aunt’s 100th birthday. When a thief steals the prized book, Paddington embarks on an epic quest to unmask the culprit before her big celebratio­n. (cc) . . . . . . . .

8:00 pm I Remember Mama (’48, Comedy-Drama) Irene Dunne. A writer recalls her Norwegian mother and family in circa-1900 San Francisco. (cc)TCM

8:40 pm . . . Maleficent: Mistress of Evil

(’19, Fantasy) Angelina Jolie. Maleficent encounters a conniving queen who hatches a devious plot to destroy the land’s fairies. Hoping to stop her,

Maleficent joins forces with a seasoned warrior and a group of outcasts to battle the queen and her powerful army. (cc)

9:00pm .............................. 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)SYFY

6:45am ............................... Stage Struck (’36, Musical) Joan Blondell. An aspiring actress bankrolls herself the leading role in a musical and clashes with the director. (cc) . . . .

8:00am ................... TheGreat Wall (’16, Adventure) Matt Damon. Imprisoned within the Great Wall of China, a mercenary warrior joins forces with an elite army to battle an onslaught of marauding monsters. (cc) . . . . . .

8:15 am Hollywood Hotel (’37, Musical Comedy) Dick Powell. The winner of a talent contest travels to Hollywood but finds the road to stardom more difficult than he expected. (cc) . . . . . . . . . . .

9:00 am For a Few Dollars More

(’65, Western) Clint Eastwood. Joined in Progress. A man with no name and a man with a mission hunt a Mexican bandit for different reasons. (cc) .

10:15 am . . . . . Men Are Such Fools

(’38, Comedy-Drama) Wayne Morris. A career woman’s fiance grows jealous of her business with an adman. (cc).

11:30 am Garden of the Moon (’38, Musical) Pat O’Brien. A press agent falls for a bandleader hired by the manager of a swanky hotel nightclub. (cc) .

11:45am .................... Hang’Em High (’68, Western) Clint Eastwood. An innocent rancher is saved from the noose and deputized to hunt down the men who tried to hang him. (cc) .

12:30pm .............................. xXx: Return of Xander Cage (’17, Action) Vin Diesel. Daredevil operative Xander Cage springs into action when four dangerous criminals steal Pandora’s

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