THE HOURS 2002
Sunday, 3 p.m., Ch. 11
TRUE LIES, 1994
Wednesday, 9 a.m., AMC
HEAVEN, 2002
Saturday, 8 p.m., WLNY
Les Miserables, 1935
Sunday, 10 a.m., TCM
Before there was the singing version with Anne Hathaway and Russell Crowe, there was the movie starring Fredric March and Charles Laughton. It is the immortal tale of Jean Valjean (March), a man in 19th-century France who is imprisoned for stealing a loaf of bread. After escaping, he is pursued for years by the relentless Inspector Javert (Laughton). Based on the novel by Victor Hugo.
The Hours,2002
Sunday, 3 p.m., Ch. 11
A complicated, multilayered story about how suicide and Virginia Woolf’s “Mrs Dalloway” directly affects the lives of three women in different eras. There’s a very troubled 1950s housewife (Julianne Moore) who can’t stop reading it while planning a party for her husband; a modern-day woman (Meryl Streep), planning a party for her friend, (Ed Harris), a famous author dying of AIDS, and finally Woolf herself, (Nicole Kidman). Nominated for nine Oscars, Kidman was the only one to win, for Best Actress.
True Lies, 1994
Wednesday, 9 a.m., AMC
Jamie Lee Curtis was quite the hottie before she started shilling for a yogurt that helps your bowels, and she was never hotter than in this fun action flick. Arnold Schwarzenegger is a mild-mannered salesman who has a double life as a secret agent/assassin. When he finds his wife (Curtis) is, out of boredom, having an affair, he decides to show her some real action. Curtis does a great strip tease — don’t miss it!
Heaven, 2002
Saturday, 8 p.m., WLNY
One of those really odd, but compelling Cate Blanchett dramas. Here she plays a young woman teaching in Turin, Italy, when her husband dies of a drug overdose. After pleas to the local cops about Turin’s biggest drug dealer, go unheeded, she decides to plant a bomb in retribution, and ends up in jail. She is taken under the wing of a cop Giovanni Ribisi, right), who becomes her lover. Love it!