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Posted on: Thursday, January 29, 2009

Thursday's movie capsules

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NEW TV LISTINGS

Based on reader comments, The Advertiser will begin daytime television listings in the paper beginning Tuesday, Feb. 3. Programming lists will begin at 9 a.m. and run until 12:30 a.m. seven days a week.

Sports television listings can be found in the sports section.

The print version of TV Week has been eliminated but beginning Sunday, Feb. 8, readers will find PDF pages of TV Week grids at WWW.honoluluadvertiser.com, which includes all local channels found in the TV guide.

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6:15 a.m. FLIX "Mr. Accident" HH1/2 (2000, Comedy) Yahoo Serious, Helen Dallimore. A disaster-prone janitor takes a job at an egg factory. (AL, AS)

6:30 a.m. AMC "Enemy Mine" HH1/2 (1985, Science Fiction) Dennis Quaid, Louis Gossett Jr.. Earthian space pilot crash-lands with lizardlike warrior. (AL, V)

TMC "Cross Creek" HHH (1983, Biography) Mary Steenburgen, Rip Torn. In 1928, a New York writer goes to live in an orange grove. (AL, AS)

6:35 a.m. IFC "Afraid of the Dark" HH1/2 (1992, Suspense) James Fox, Fanny Ardant. A boy with failing eyesight trails a serial killer. (AL, V)

6:45 a.m. TCM "I Remember Mama" HHHH (1948, Comedy-Drama) Irene Dunne, Barbara Bel Geddes. Writer recalls her Norwegian mother and San Francisco kin.

7:00 a.m. MAX "Miss Congeniality" HH (2000, Comedy) Sandra Bullock, Michael Caine. A clumsy FBI agent goes under cover at a beauty pageant. (AS, V)

7:30 a.m. HBO2 "Welcome Home Roscoe Jenkins" HH1/2 (2008, Comedy) Martin Lawrence, James Earl Jones. A talk-show star returns to his Southern hometown. (AL, AS)

7:45 a.m. FLIX "The Life and Times of Hank Greenberg" HHH (1999, Documentary) Hank Greenberg, Alan Dershowitz. The Jewish baseball player defies anti-Semitism. (AL)

8:00 a.m. fX "Mr. Nice Guy" HH1/2 (1997, Action) Jackie Chan, Richard Norton. An unwitting hero saves a journalist from a crime lord. (AS, V)

TBS "Spanglish" HHH (2004, Comedy-Drama) Adam Sandler, Tea Leoni. A housekeeper works for a chef and his neurotic wife. (AL, AS)

8:10 a.m. IFC "The Florentine" HH (1999, Drama) Michael Madsen, Chris Penn. An ex-beau threatens a woman's upcoming marriage. (AL)

8:30 a.m. TMC "Deep Impact" HH (1998, Drama) Robert Duvall, Tea Leoni. A large comet is on a collision course with Earth. (AL, V)

8:50 a.m. MAX "Jurassic Park" HHH1/2 (1993, Science Fiction) Sam Neill, Laura Dern. Cloned dinosaurs run amok at an island-jungle theme park. (V)

9:00 a.m. AMC "WarGames" HHH (1983, Suspense) Matthew Broderick, Dabney Coleman. A teenage computer whiz nearly begins World War III. (AL, MV)

TCM "Imitation of Life" HHH (1959, Drama) Lana Turner, John Gavin. Teenage daughters complicate two women's friendship.

9:20 a.m. FLIX "Bread and Tulips" HH1/2 (2000, Romance-Comedy) Licia Maglietta, Bruno Ganz. A housewife hitchhikes to Venice. (AL, AS)

9:30 a.m. HBOF "Transformers" HHH (2007, Action) Shia LaBeouf, Tyrese Gibson. Two races of robots wage war on Earth. (AL, AS, V)

10:00 a.m. HBO2 "I Am Legend" HHH (2007, Science Fiction) Will Smith, Alice Braga. Bloodthirsty plague victims surround a lone survivor. (AS, V)

IFC "The Virgin Spring" HHHH (1959, Drama) Max von Sydow, Birgitta Valberg. A girl's killers unwittingly go to her father's door. (AS, GV)

USA "Gangs of New York" HHH1/2 (2002, Historical Drama) Leonardo DiCaprio, Daniel Day-Lewis. A man vows vengeance on the gangster who killed his father. (AL, AS, GV, N)

10:35 a.m. TMC "Twelve and Holding" HHH (2005, Drama) Conor Donovan, Jesse Camacho. An identical twin and two friends grieve over an adolescent. (AL, AS, V)

11:00 a.m. LMN "My Girl" HHH (1991, Drama) Anna Chlumsky, Macaulay Culkin. A funeral director's daughter has a summer of awakenings. (AL, AS)

MAX "Hairspray" HHH (2007, Musical Comedy) John Travolta, Nikki Blonsky. A Baltimore girl becomes an overnight celebrity. (AL, AS)

11:15 a.m. FLIX "The Land Girls" HH1/2 (1998, Drama) Catherine McCormack, Rachel Weisz. During World War II, British women become farm workers. (AS)

TCM "Father of the Bride" HHHH (1950, Comedy) Spencer Tracy, Elizabeth Taylor. A family agonizes over a bride-to-be's immense wedding.

11:30 a.m. AMC "Death Wish" HHH (1974, Crime Drama) Charles Bronson, Hope Lange. A man turns vigilante after a brutal attack on his family. (AL, AS, GV, N)

IFC "Afraid of the Dark" HH1/2 (1992, Suspense) James Fox, Fanny Ardant. A boy with failing eyesight trails a serial killer. (AL, V)

11:45 a.m. HBO2 "Dolores Claiborne" HH1/2 (1995, Horror) Kathy Bates, Jennifer Jason Leigh. An abrasive woman is accused of murdering her employer. (AL, V)

12:00 p.m. DIS "Bob the Butler" HH (2005, Comedy) Tom Green, Brooke Shields. A novice manservant cares for two mischievous children. (AL, AS)

HBOF "Kidco" HH1/2 (1984, Comedy) Scott Schwartz, Cinnamon Idles. An ambitious youth enters the corporate world. (AL)

LIFE "City of Angels" HHH (1998, Romance) Nicolas Cage, Meg Ryan. A smitten angel considers becoming human. (AL, AS)

1:00 p.m. LMN "A Father's Choice" HH (2000, Drama) Peter Strauss, Mary McDonnell. A rodeo cowboy raises his daughters after his ex-wife dies. 'TVPG'

MAX "One Good Cop" HHH (1991, Drama) Michael Keaton, Rene Russo. A cop becomes guardian of his late partner's daughters. (AL, AS, V)

TCM "Yours, Mine and Ours" HHH (1968, Comedy) Lucille Ball, Henry Fonda. A man with 10 children weds a woman with eight of her own.

1:10 p.m. FLIX "Queen of the Stardust Ballroom" HHH (1975, Drama) Maureen Stapleton, Charles Durning. A widow meets a married mailman at a Bronx dance hall. 'TVPG'

1:30 p.m. IFC "The Cars That Ate Paris" HHH (1974, Comedy-Drama) Terry Camilleri, John Meillon. A rural Australian shantytown engineers auto mishaps. (AL, V)

1:45 p.m. HBOF "Coneheads" HH1/2 (1993, Comedy) Dan Aykroyd, Jane Curtin. The "Saturday Night Live" aliens adjust to life on Earth. (BN)

2:00 p.m. HBO2 "Primary Colors" HHH (1998, Comedy-Drama) John Travolta, Emma Thompson. A smooth-talking Southern governor runs for president. (AL, AS)

2:50 p.m. FLIX "Hiding Out" HH (1987, Suspense) Jon Cryer, Keith Coogan. Fleeing Wall Street yuppie hides in cousin's high school. (AL, AS, V)

TMC "The Daytrippers" HH1/2 (1996, Comedy) Hope Davis, Pat McNamara. A wife and her relatives search for her philandering mate. (AL)

3:00 p.m. IFC "American Psycho" HHH (2000, Horror) Christian Bale, Willem Dafoe. An insane '80s-era yuppie indulges in kinky sex and mayhem. (AL, AS, GV)

LMN "A Stranger to Love" HH (1996, Drama) Beau Bridges, Pam Dawber. A resurfacing past disrupts an amnesia victim's new life. 'TVPG'

TCM "Annie Hall" HHHH (1977, Comedy) Woody Allen, Diane Keaton. A New York comic struggles with an on-and-off romance. (AL, AS)

3:30 p.m. AMC "The Untouchables" HHHH (1987, Crime Drama) Kevin Costner, Sean Connery. Incorruptible government agents move against Al Capone. (AL, GV)

fX "The Italian Job" HHH (2003, Crime Drama) Mark Wahlberg, Charlize Theron. A thief and his crew plan to steal back their gold. (AL, V)

WE "Indecent Proposal" HH1/2 (1993, Drama) Robert Redford, Demi Moore. A man offers a couple $1 million for a night with the wife. (AL, AS)

4:15 p.m. MAX "Dead Presidents" HH1/2 (1995, Drama) Larenz Tate, Keith David. A jobless Vietnam vet and his buddies organize a heist. (AL, AS, GV)

4:20 p.m. TMC "Watching the Detectives" HH1/2 (2007, Romance-Comedy) Cillian Murphy, Lucy Liu. A man meets an adventurous beauty who shakes up his dull life. (AL, AS, BN, MV)

4:30 p.m. FLIX "Mr. Accident" HH1/2 (2000, Comedy) Yahoo Serious, Helen Dallimore. A disaster-prone janitor takes a job at an egg factory. (AL, AS)

HBO2 "Office Space" HH1/2 (1999, Comedy) Ron Livingston, Jennifer Aniston. A white-collar worker rebels against corporate drudgery. (AL, AS)

4:45 p.m. IFC "Dahmer" HH1/2 (2002, Drama) Jeremy Renner, Bruce Davison. Serial killer Jeffrey Dahmer begins his deadly work. (AL, AS, V)

5:00 p.m. HBOF "Transformers" HHH (2007, Action) Shia LaBeouf, Tyrese Gibson. Two races of robots wage war on Earth. (AL, AS, V)

ION "A View to a Kill" HH1/2 (1985, Action) Roger Moore, Christopher Walken. Agent 007 fights a genetic superman bent on world conquest. (AS, V)

TCM "Modern Romance" HHH (1981, Comedy) Albert Brooks, Kathryn Harrold. A neurotic seeks to regain the heart of the woman he loves. (AL, AS, N)

6:00 p.m. AMC "Rudy" HHH (1993, Drama) Sean Astin, Ned Beatty. A working-class teen dreams of admission to Notre Dame. (AL)

FLIX "Chuck & Buck" HHH (2000, Comedy-Drama) Mike White, Chris Weitz. An odd young man has an extreme fixation on a childhood pal. (AL, AS)

fX "The Transporter 2" HH1/2 (2005, Action) Jason Statham, Amber Valletta. A former soldier tries to save a kidnapped boy. (AL, AS, N, V)

TMC "Hannibal Rising" HH (2007, Suspense) Gaspard Ulliel, Gong Li. Trauma endured during World War II warps young Hannibal Lecter's mind. (AL, AS, GV)

WE "Sleeping With the Enemy" HH1/2 (1991, Suspense) Julia Roberts, Patrick Bergin. A woman takes drastic measures to flee her abusive husband. (AL, AS, V)

6:30 p.m. HBO2 "Welcome Home Roscoe Jenkins" HH1/2 (2008, Comedy) Martin Lawrence, James Earl Jones. A talk-show star returns to his Southern hometown. (AL, AS)

IFC "Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer" HHH1/2 (1988, Horror) Michael Rooker, Tracy Arnold. A murderer embarks on a reign of terror in the Midwest. (AL, AS, BN, GV)

6:45 p.m. TCM "The Apartment" HHHH (1960, Comedy-Drama) Jack Lemmon, Shirley MacLaine. A corporate climber lets his boss and others use his home.

7:00 p.m. KFVE "Dangerous Minds" HH (1995, Drama) Michelle Pfeiffer, George Dzundza. A teacher works wonders on a class of educational misfits. (AL)

FAM "A Cinderella Story" HH (2004, Romance-Comedy) Hilary Duff, Jennifer Coolidge. A teenager meets a high-school quarterback online. (AL, AS)

HALL "Follow the Stars Home" HH1/2 (2001, Drama) Kimberly Williams, Campbell Scott. A single mother draws strength from the people in her life. 'TVPG'

ION "Octopussy" HHH (1983, Action) Roger Moore, Maud Adams. Agent James Bond fights Russians planning world conquest. (AL, AS, V)

LIFE "Sister Act 2: Back in the Habit" HH (1993, Musical Comedy) Whoopi Goldberg, Kathy Najimy. Deloris and friends rally to save a school from closing. (AL)

LMN "A Stranger to Love" HH (1996, Drama) Beau Bridges, Pam Dawber. A resurfacing past disrupts an amnesia victim's new life. 'TVPG'

SCI-FI "Rise: Blood Hunter" HH (2007, Horror) Lucy Liu, Michael Chiklis. An undead reporter and a detective join forces against a vampire cult. (AL, AS, GV, N)

7:30 p.m. HBOF "Mystery Science Theater 3000: The Movie" HH1/2 (1996, Comedy) Michael J. Nelson, Trace Beaulieu. An astronaut and his robots are forced to view a bad movie. (AL)

7:45 p.m. FLIX "A Brother's Kiss" HHH (1997, Drama) Nick Chinlund, Michael Raynor. Two streetwise brothers cope with adulthood in East Harlem. (AL, GV, SSC)

8:00 p.m. DIS "Chicken Little" HH1/2 (2005, Comedy) Voices of Zach Braff, Joan Cusack. Animated. A young fowl must save the world from aliens.

fX "The Transporter 2" HH1/2 (2005, Action) Jason Statham, Amber Valletta. A former soldier tries to save a kidnapped boy. (AL, AS, N, V)

IFC "The Texas Chainsaw Massacre" HHH (1974, Horror) Marilyn Burns, Gunnar Hansen. A family of cannibals lures stranded teens home for dinner. (AL, AS, GV)

MAX "Jurassic Park" HHH1/2 (1993, Science Fiction) Sam Neill, Laura Dern. Cloned dinosaurs run amok at an island-jungle theme park. (V)

TBS "Save the Last Dance" HHH (2001, Romance) Julia Stiles, Sean Patrick Thomas. A white teen falls for a black student who also loves dance. (AL, AS, V)

WE "Monster" HHH1/2 (2003, Biography) Charlize Theron, Christina Ricci. Aileen Wuornos kills seven men and lands on death row. (AL, AS, GV, N)

8:05 p.m. TMC "Stir of Echoes" HHH (1999, Suspense) Kevin Bacon, Kathryn Erbe. A skeptic becomes a receptor of supernatural vibes. (AL, AS, GV)

8:30 p.m. HBO2 "The Darjeeling Limited" HHH (2007, Comedy-Drama) Owen Wilson, Adrien Brody. A man takes his brothers on a train trip across India. (AL, AS)

8:45 p.m. AMC "Stand by Me" HHH (1986, Comedy-Drama) Wil Wheaton, River Phoenix. Boy and buddies go on hike to find dead body in 1959. (AL, AS, V)

HBOF "Ferris Bueller's Day Off" HHH (1986, Comedy) Matthew Broderick, Alan Ruck. A brash teen and his friends have an adventure in Chicago. (AL)

9:00 p.m. LMN "Bastard Out of Carolina" HHH (1996, Drama) Jennifer Jason Leigh, Ron Eldard. A 1950s Southern girl suffers the abuse of her stepfather. (AS, GV)

TCM "Shampoo" HHH (1975, Comedy) Warren Beatty, Julie Christie. A Beverly Hills hairstylist makes a mess of romance. (AL, AS, N)

9:20 p.m. FLIX "The Passion of Ayn Rand" HH1/2 (1999, Drama) Helen Mirren, Eric Stoltz. Married writer Ayn Rand has an affair with a student. 'TVMA' (AL, MV, N, SSC)

10:30 p.m. HBOF "Mrs. Doubtfire" HHH (1993, Comedy) Robin Williams, Sally Field. An estranged dad poses as a nanny to be with his children. (AL, AS)

WE "The Game" HHH (1997, Suspense) Michael Douglas, Sean Penn. A businessman takes part in an unusual form of recreation. (AL, AS, V)

10:45 p.m. AMC "Pretty in Pink" HHH (1986, Romance-Comedy) Molly Ringwald, Jon Cryer. A poor eclectic teen is romanced by a wealthy classmate. (AL, AS)

10:50 p.m. LMN "Perfect Family" HH (1992, Suspense) Jennifer O'Neill, Bruce Boxleitner. A single mother takes in two boarders hiding a deadly secret. 'TVPG' (V)

11:00 p.m. IFC "American Psycho" HHH (2000, Horror) Christian Bale, Willem Dafoe. An insane '80s-era yuppie indulges in kinky sex and mayhem. (AL, AS, GV)

TCM "The Clock" HHH (1945, Romance) Judy Garland, Robert Walker. A soldier on a 48-hour leave falls in love in New York.

11:05 p.m. FLIX "The Man Who Fell to Earth" HHH1/2 (1976, Science Fiction) David Bowie, Candy Clark. A visitor from a dry planet forms a big corporation. (AL, AS, N, SSC)

11:10 p.m. TBS "A Time to Kill" HHH (1996, Drama) Sandra Bullock, Samuel L. Jackson. A lawyer's defense of a black man arouses the Klan's ire. (AL, GV)

11:30 p.m. HBO2 "After Alice" HH1/2 (1999, Suspense) Kiefer Sutherland, Henry Czerny. A killer is obsessed with "Alice in Wonderland." (AL, AS, V)

TMC "The General's Daughter" HH1/2 (1999, Suspense) John Travolta, Madeleine Stowe. Army investigators probe an officer's brutal slaying. (AL, AS, GV, N)

11:45 p.m. MAX "Judgment Day" HH1/2 (1999, Action) Ice-T, Suzy Amis. An FBI agent and an ex-convict unite to save the world. (AL, GV)

12:35 a.m. HBOF "Coneheads" HH1/2 (1993, Comedy) Dan Aykroyd, Jane Curtin. The "Saturday Night Live" aliens adjust to life on Earth. (BN)

12:45 a.m. AMC "Hello, Dolly!" HHH1/2 (1969, Musical Comedy) Barbra Streisand, Walter Matthau. A circa-1900 matchmaker nabs a Yonkers merchant for herself.

IFC "The Cars That Ate Paris" HHH (1974, Comedy-Drama) Terry Camilleri, John Meillon. A rural Australian shantytown engineers auto mishaps. (AL, V)

TCM "The Bad and the Beautiful" HHH1/2 (1952, Drama) Lana Turner, Kirk Douglas. People recall a hated Hollywood producer.

1:00 a.m. LMN "My Girl" HHH (1991, Drama) Anna Chlumsky, Macaulay Culkin. A funeral director's daughter has a summer of awakenings. (AL, AS)

1:15 a.m. HBO2 "Black and White" HH1/2 (1999, Drama) Scott Caan, Robert Downey Jr.. Privileged white teens explore the black hip-hop culture. (AL, AS, SSC, V)

1:20 a.m. MAX "Joshua" HH1/2 (2007, Suspense) Sam Rockwell, Vera Farmiga. A precocious boy may have a hand in sinister events. (AL, AS)

1:30 a.m. FLIX "The Life and Times of Hank Greenberg" HHH (1999, Documentary) Hank Greenberg, Alan Dershowitz. The Jewish baseball player defies anti-Semitism. (AL)

2:00 a.m. TNT "Judge Dredd" HH1/2 (1995, Action) Sylvester Stallone, Armand Assante. A futuristic lawman battles a fiendishly clever criminal. (V)

2:20 a.m. IFC "Chinese Box" HH1/2 (1997, Drama) Jeremy Irons, Gong Li. A dying journalist becomes involved with two women. (AL, AS)

2:45 a.m. TCM "The Huddle" HH (1932, Drama) Ramon Navarro, Madge Evans. A steelworker's son makes good at Yale.

3:00 a.m. LMN "Bastard Out of Carolina" HHH (1996, Drama) Jennifer Jason Leigh, Ron Eldard. A 1950s Southern girl suffers the abuse of her stepfather. (AS, GV)

TMC "Deep Impact" HH (1998, Drama) Robert Duvall, Tea Leoni. A large comet is on a collision course with Earth. (AL, V)

3:05 a.m. FLIX "Circle of Iron" HH1/2 (1979, Adventure) David Carradine, Jeff Cooper. A martial artist embarks on a quest for a legendary master. (AL, AS, V)

3:10 a.m. MAX "In Harm's Way" HHH (1965, War) John Wayne, Kirk Douglas. A Navy officer is assigned to retake Japanese-held islands.

4:00 a.m. AMC "The Thrill of It All" HHH (1963, Romance-Comedy) Doris Day, James Garner. A doctor sees red when his wife becomes a commercial star.

IFC "Separate Lies" HHH (2005, Drama) Tom Wilkinson, Emily Watson. A young heir threatens a couple's troubled marriage. (AL, AS)

4:30 a.m. TCM "College Coach" HH (1933, Comedy) Dick Powell, Ann Dvorak. Football coach takes team and its singing star to big game.

4:45 a.m. FLIX "Wise Blood" HHH1/2 (1979, Drama) Brad Dourif, Amy Wright. A backwoodsman turns to fire-and-brimstone preaching. (AL, AS)

5:00 a.m. HBO2 "Coneheads" HH1/2 (1993, Comedy) Dan Aykroyd, Jane Curtin. The "Saturday Night Live" aliens adjust to life on Earth. (BN)

LMN "A Father's Choice" HH (2000, Drama) Peter Strauss, Mary McDonnell. A rodeo cowboy raises his daughters after his ex-wife dies. 'TVPG'

5:30 a.m. IFC "The New World" HHH (2005, Historical Drama) Colin Farrell, Christian Bale. Explorer John Smith lands in 17th-century North America. (AS, V)