CAGED, 1950
THE BREAKFAST CLUB, 1985
BABEL, 2006
The Last King of Scotland, 2006
Sunday, 3 p.m., WNWY
Forest Whitaker deservedly won a Best Actor Oscar for his startling performance as Idi Amin, in this tale about an idealistic Scottish doctor, Dr. Nicholas Garrigan (James McAvoy), who travels to Uganda to help with the dire health situation there. Amin, who has promised a new world for the country’s poor and suffering, makes Garrigan his personal physician as the dictator becomes more brutal with each passing day.
Caged, 1950
Monday, 7:15 a.m., TCM
Everyone’s favorite campy cult movie — OK, make that my favorite campy cult movie — is this film about a doe-eyed innocent (Eleanor Parker) sent to prison as an armed robbery accomplice. When exposed to the realities of the joint, including the heartless matron’s vicious ways and yes, a shower scene, the innocent girl goes bad. With very oblique references to lesbianism and a hard sell on prison reform, the naif turns into a hardened con. With Hope Emerson as that nasty matron.
The Breakfast Club, 1985
Tuesday, 8 p.m., AMC
Considered one of the best John Hughes brat-pack movies, this film tells what happens to five high school kids from very different backgrounds who find themselves thrown together every Saturday for detention. What the students — from left, Judd Nelson, Emilio Estevez, Ally Sheedy, Molly Ringwald and Anthony Michael Hall — discover about each other is touching, very funny and just wonderful.
Babel, 2006
Saturday, 1 p.m., Ch. 11
Very unsettling movie that ties four separate stories to one gun. Brad Pitt and Cate Blanchett are a married couple who take a trip to Morocco, where she is shot by a stray bullet fired by a young goat herder’s son. This same gun is connected to a deaf Japanese girl. As the mother struggles for her life, their undocumented Mexican nanny takes the couple’s kids to her family wedding across the border and encounters a nightmare trying to return them to California.