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The best movies on TV this week

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LIVING WITH THE ENEMY Sarah Lancaster. A newlywed thinks her husband killed his first wife. LMN (1:36) ANCHORMAN: THE LEGEND OF RON BURGUNDY Will Ferrell. A 1970s newsman feels threatened by a female employee. TNT (1:35) 10:05 P.M. FATHER OF THE BRIDE PART II Steve Martin. Dual pregnancie­s play havoc with an anxious family man. ENC (1:46) 10:40 P.M. FINAL DESTINATIO­N 2 Ali Larter. Grisly fates await the survivors of a highway calamity. STARZ (1:30) 11:00 P.M. RED DAWN Patrick Swayze. High-school guerrillas take on invading Soviet troops. AMC (1:54) BOOTMEN Adam Garcia. A young steel-mill worker dreams of being a tap dancer. SUND (1:32) 11:30 P.M. SIGNS Mel Gibson. A widower investigat­es huge crop circles in his fields. SYFY (1:46) 12:00 A.M. APOCALYPTO Rudy Youngblood. The end of the Mayan civilizati­on nears. ENC (2:17) BIG STAN Rob Schneider. A con artist learns martial arts to protect himself in jail. HBO (1:48) THE GAME PLAN Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson. A carefree football player learns he has a daughter. OXY (1:50) MOVE OVER, DARLING Doris Day. A missing woman returns on the day her spouse remarries. TCM (1:43)

WEDNESDAY

7:00 P.M. BRING IT ON Kirsten Dunst. Cheerleade­rs vie for a national title. FAM (1:38) NOTTING HILL Julia Roberts. A bookseller and a movie star have an unlikely romance. WE (2:03) 7:25 P.M. MARS NEEDS MOMS Animated. Martians kidnap the mother of a 9-year-old boy. STARZ (1:28) 8:00 P.M. CONTACT Jodie Foster. A scientist seeks alien life in deep space. AMC (2:30) THE EXPRESS Dennis Quaid. Born poor, Ernie Davis becomes a star football player. BET (2:09) THE HOT CHICK Rob Schneider. A cheerleade­r and a man switch bodies via magic earrings. E! (1:41) GROWN UPS Adam Sandler. Friends learn that maturity does not always come with age. ENC (1:42) THE BOUNTY HUNTER Jennifer Aniston. A bounty hunter must track down his bail-jumping exwife. FX (1:51) DUE DATE Robert Downey Jr. A high-strung man takes a road trip with an annoying stranger. HBO (1:35) THE HITCHHIKER’S GUIDE TO THE GALAXY Martin Freeman. A human and his alien friend begin an interstell­ar journey. IFC (1:49) BUNNY AND THE BULL Edward Hogg. A shut-in takes an imaginary road trip. SUND (1:41) MIDNIGHT LACE Doris Day. A newlywed is tormented by threatenin­g phone calls. TCM (1:48) THE TEMPEST Helen Mirren. A vengeful sorceress unleashes her powers against shipwrecke­d enemies. TMC (1:49) 8:15 P.M. DESPICABLE ME Animated. Three orphans challenge one of Earth’s greatest villains. MAX (1:35) 8:30 P.M. SPY KIDS Antonio Banderas. The children of two secret agents battle an evil madman. DISN (1:28) 9:00 P.M. CYBERBULLY Emily Osment. A teenager becomes the victim of online bullying. FAM (1:30) FRIDAY AFTER NEXT Ice Cube. Two cousins land jobs as security guards at a shopping mall. STARZ (1:22) 9:45 P.M. NATIONAL LAMPOON’S ANIMAL HOUSE John Belushi. Bluto, Otter and the Deltas run wild at 1962 Faber College. ENC (1:49) BUNNY AND THE BULL SUND (See 8 p.m.) 10:00 P.M. JAWS Roy Scheider. A man-eating shark terrorizes a New England resort town. MAX (2:04) NOTTING HILL WE (See 7 p.m.) 10:15 P.M. BUFFY THE VAMPIRE SLAYER IFC (See Sun. 10 p.m.) 10:30 P.M. THE BOUNTY HUNTER FX (See 8 p.m.) FRIENDS WITH BENEFITS STARZ (See Sun. 11:05 p.m.) 11:00 P.M. THE HONEYMOONE­RS Cedric the Entertaine­r. Ralph Kramden and Ed Norton try assorted moneymakin­g schemes. OXY (1:30) 11:30 P.M. FLIGHTPLAN Jodie Foster. A frantic widow searches for her daughter on an airplane. AMC (1:38) JACKASS: THE MOVIE Johnny Knoxville. Nitwits perform stunts and pull practical jokes. SHO (1:24) VISIONEERS Zach Galifianak­is. A strange epidemic causes stressed-out people to explode. SUND (1:34) 11:40 P.M. KNOCKAROUN­D GUYS John Malkovich. A mobster’s son and his pals scramble to find lost cash. ENC (1:33) 11:45 P.M. THE WINNING TEAM Doris Day. The story of baseball pitcher Grover Cleveland Alexander. TCM (1:38)

THURSDAY

7:00 P.M. HAIRSPRAY John Travolta. A Baltimore girl becomes an overnight star. LOGO (1:55) 7:30 P.M. MEET THE BROWNS Tyler Perry. A woman meets her late father’s uproarious family for the first time. BET (1:40) 30 MINUTES OR LESS Jesse Eisenberg. Aspiring crooks force a pizza-delivery guy to rob a bank. STARZ (1:23) 7:45 P.M. MIDNIGHT RUN Robert De Niro. A bounty hunter and an accused embezzler must duck the mob. MAX (2:02) 8:00 P.M. COACH CARTER Samuel L. Jackson. A high-school basketball coach pushes his team to excel. AMC (2:16) THE ABYSS Ed Harris. An oil-rig crew must search for a sunken nuclear sub. ENC (2:26) NO ONE WOULD TELL Candace Cameron. A high-school girl suffers abuse from a popular student. LMN (1:36) SCREAM Neve Campbell. A psychopath stalks the teens of a sleepy town. SHO (1:53) HUNGER Michael Fassbender. Bobby Sands leads an IRA hunger strike in prison. SUND (1:32) PLEASE DON’T EAT THE DAISIES Doris Day. Jean Kerr’s comic account of a drama critic and his family. TCM (1:51) THE HEART SPECIALIST Wood Harris. A doctor bets he can teach a new intern about true love. TMC (1:39) 8:05 P.M. NAPOLEON DYNAMITE IFC (See Sun. 8 p.m.) 8:30 P.M. PHINEAS AND FERB: THE MOVIE: ACROSS THE 2ND DIMENSION Animated. Stepbrothe­rs and a platypus battle evil Dr. Doofenshmi­rtz. DISN (1:30) RAISING HELEN Kate Hudson. A woman gains custody of her late sister’s children. FAM (1:59) 9:00 P.M. MISERY James Caan. A missing, injured author has a twisted fan for a nurse. LOGO (1:47) BRINGING DOWN THE HOUSE Steve Martin. A brassy ex-con gets an uptight attorney to clear her name. STARZ (1:45) 10:00 P.M. ROLE MODELS Seann William Scott. Two wild guys become mentors to two impression­able youths. FX (1:39) A NIGHTMARE ON ELM STREET Jackie Earle Haley. Razor-gloved Freddy Krueger hunts teens in their dreams. MAX (1:36) JOHNNY MAD DOG Christophe Minie. Children fight in a war in an unnamed country in Africa. SUND (1:37) THE THRILL OF IT ALL Doris Day. A doctor sees red when his wife becomes a commercial star. TCM (1:48) PHUNNY BUSINESS: A BLACK COMEDY A history of the prominent comedy club All Jokes Aside. TMC (1:21) BARBERSHOP 2: BACK IN BUSINESS Ice Cube. A barbershop owner considers selling his establishm­ent. VH1 (1:46) 10:05 P.M. PLANES, TRAINS AND AUTOMOBILE­S Steve Martin. A stranded ad exec and a salesman make unlikely co-travelers. IFC (1:32) 10:30 P.M. BLADE RUNNER ENC (See Sun. 8 p.m.) 10:45 P.M. MIDNIGHT IN PARIS STARZ (See Tue. 9 p.m.) 11:00 P.M. ESCAPE FROM L.A. Kurt Russell. Snake Plissken faces foes in the ruins of 2013 Los Angeles. AMC (1:41) 11:30 P.M. THE SKELETON KEY SYFY (See Sun. 11 p.m.) NIGHT CATCHES US Anthony Mackie. A former Black Panther returns home to bury his father. TMC (1:30) 11:55 P.M. GLADIATOR Russell Crowe. A fugitive general becomes a gladiator in ancient Rome. HBO (2:34) 12:00 A.M. ROLE MODELS FX (See 10 p.m.) NO ONE WOULD TELL LMN (See 8 p.m.) MUTANTS Hélène de Fougerolle­s. A virus turns the French into monsters. SUND (1:29)

FRIDAY

7:00 P.M. BEWITCHED Nicole Kidman. An actual witch stars in a TV remake of the 1960s sitcom. FAM (1:40) LIVE FREE OR DIE HARD Bruce Willis. America’s computers fall under attack. FX (2:09) 7:30 P.M. DEAD PRESIDENTS Larenz Tate. A jobless Vietnam vet and his buddies organize a heist. BET (1:59) HARD RAIN Morgan Freeman. Bank robbers try to outwit an evil sheriff during a flood. MAX (1:36) BARBERSHOP 2: BACK IN BUSINESS VH1 (See Thu. 10 p.m.) 8:00 P.M. HALLOWEEN H2O: 20 YEARS LATER Jamie Lee Curtis. A woman’s lethal brother returns for her 20 years later. AMC (1:25) BOILING POINT Wesley Snipes. A Treasury agent has one week to find a comrade’s killers. ENC (1:33) GREEN LANTERN HBO (See Mon. 11:30 p.m.)

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