Friday's movie capsules

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6:00 a.m. COM "Ski School" (1991, Comedy) Dean Cameron, Tom Breznahan. Two skiers hold a contest to see who is king of the slopes. (AL, AS, N)

IFC "Duane Hopwood" (2005, Comedy-Drama) David Schwimmer, Janeane Garofalo. A divorced alcoholic struggles to reunite his family. (AL, AS)

TCM "Tom Thumb" (1958, Fantasy) Russ Tamblyn, Alan Young. The Brothers Grimm tale about a boy only 5 1/2 inches tall.

6:15 a.m. AMC "The Longest Day" (1962, War) John Wayne, Robert Mitchum. Allied forces invade WWII Normandy on D-Day.

6:30 a.m. OXYG "Against All Odds" (1984, Crime Drama) Rachel Ward, Jeff Bridges. An unemployed athlete looks for a gangster's runaway lover. (AL, AS, N, V)

6:40 a.m. MAX "Jurassic Park" (1993, Science Fiction) Sam Neill, Laura Dern. Cloned dinosaurs run amok at an island-jungle theme park. (V)

6:45 a.m. TMC "Godsend" (2004, Suspense) Greg Kinnear, Rebecca Romijn-Stamos. A scientist clones a couple's dead son. (AS, V)

7:25 a.m. IFC "Fanny and Alexander" (1982, Drama) Pernilla Allwin, Bertil Guve. A portrait of life in a Swedish theatrical family. (AL, AS, BN)

7:30 a.m. FLIX "Affliction" (1997, Drama) Nick Nolte, Sissy Spacek. A small-town sheriff becomes unhinged. (AL, V)

HBO2 "The Perfect Storm" (2000, Suspense) George Clooney, Mark Wahlberg. A fishing boat sails into the storm of the century. (AL)

8:00 a.m. fX "Tumbleweeds" (1999, Drama) Janet McTeer, Kimberly J. Brown. A mother and daughter make a fresh start in California. (AL, AS)

TBS "The Honeymooners" (2005, Comedy) Cedric the Entertainer, Mike Epps. Ralph Kramden and Ed Norton try assorted moneymaking schemes. (AS)

TCM "Wagon Master" (1950, Western) Ben Johnson, Joanne Dru. Horse trader and buddy join Mormon elder's wagon train.

TOON "Doogal" (2005, Adventure) Voices of Daniel Tay, Jon Stewart. Animated. An evil wizard would start an ice age.

8:30 a.m. BRV "Vanilla Sky" (2001, Suspense) Tom Cruise, Pen"'elope Cruz. A disfigured womanizer cannot distinguish dreams from reality. (AL, AS)

TMC "Daddy's Little Girls" (2007, Romance) Gabrielle Union, Idris Elba. A poor mechanic and an attorney share an unexpected romance. (AL, AS, V)

8:50 a.m. MAX "Sydney White" (2007, Comedy) Amanda Bynes, Sara Paxton. A college coed finds a home with seven outcasts. (AL, AS)

9:00 a.m. LMN "Love's Deadly Triangle: The Texas Cadet Murder" (1997, Drama) Holly Marie Combs, David Lipper. Two cadets are charged with the murder of a student. 'TV14'

OXYG "Chasing Papi" (2003, Romance-Comedy) Roselyn Sanchez, Sof"'ia Vergara. Three women discover that they share the same boyfriend. (AL, AS)

9:30 a.m. HBOF "Unaccompanied Minors" (2006, Comedy) Dyllan Christopher, Tyler James Williams. A snowstorm strands youths in an airport during the holidays. (AL, AS)

TCM "Three Strangers"(1946, Mystery) Geraldine Fitzgerald, Sydney Greenstreet. Three strangers meet, share a sweepstakes ticket and win.

10:15 a.m. AMC "Tora! Tora! Tora!"(1970, War) Martin Balsam, Soh Yamamura. History of Pearl Harbor attack, seen from both sides.

TMC "Freedom Writers"(2007, Drama) Hilary Swank, Patrick Dempsey. A teacher inspires at-risk teens to believe in themselves. (AL, AS, V)

10:35 a.m. IFC "Requiem"(2006, Suspense) Sandra Huller, Burghart Klaussner. Frightening occurrences plague a college student. (AL, AS, V)

10:40 a.m. MAX "Wasted"(2006, Comedy-Drama) Eddie Kaye Thomas, Kip Pardue. Friends reunite to attend the funeral of a high-school buddy. (AL, AS)

11:00 a.m. FLIX "Marine Life"(2000, Comedy-Drama) Cybill Shepherd, Peter Outerbridge. A teen's confusion is compounded by her lounge-singer mother. (AL, AS)

HBOF "Edward Scissorhands"(1990, Fantasy) Johnny Depp, Winona Ryder. A man-made misfit cuts a tragic figure in suburbia. (AS, V)

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

11:30 a.m. BRV "Lethal Weapon"(1987, Action) Mel Gibson, Danny Glover. A veteran detective is paired with an eccentric partner. (AL, AS, N, V)

TCM "Torrid Zone"(1940, Comedy-Drama) James Cagney, Ann Sheridan. Company man baits banana-plant boss with singer.

12:00 p.m. DIS "Cadet Kelly"(2002, Comedy-Drama) Hilary Duff, Christy Carlson Romano. A new cadet is challenged by an antagonistic upperclassman. 'TVG'

LIFE "Copycat"(1995, Suspense) Sigourney Weaver, Holly Hunter. A cunning psychopath imitates infamous serial killers. (AL, V)

12:05 p.m. IFC "The Final Cut"(2004, Science Fiction) Robin Williams, Mira Sorvino. A man finds an unexpected connection to his own darkest secret. (AL, AS, V)

12:20 p.m. MAX "Breaking and Entering"(2006, Drama) Jude Law, Juliette Binoche. A landscape architect begins an affair with a Bosnian refugee. (AL, AS)

12:30 p.m. TMC "Lady in White"(1988, Horror) Lukas Haas, Len Cariou. An apparition gives a boy clues to a 10-year-old murder. (AL, AS, V)

12:40 p.m. FLIX "True Love" (1989, Comedy-Drama) Annabella Sciorra, Ron Eldard. An Italian-American couple prepare for their wedding. (AL, AS)

12:50 p.m. HBOF "The Land Before Time II: The Great Valley Adventure"(1994, Adventure) Voices of Jeff Bennett, Linda Gary. Animated. Young dinosaurs get into big trouble.

1:00 p.m. OXYG "Guarding Tess"(1994, Comedy-Drama) Shirley MacLaine, Nicolas Cage. An ambitious Secret Service man tends a former first lady. (AL)

TCM "Watch on the Rhine" (1943, Drama) Bette Davis, Paul Lukas. Nazis intimidate an underground leader and his family. (V)

1:30 p.m. AMC "Quigley Down Under"(1990, Western) Tom Selleck, Laura San Giacomo. Old West sharpshooter's new boss tells him to kill Aborigines. (V)

HBO2 "The Golden Compass"(2007, Fantasy) Nicole Kidman, Dakota Blue Richards. A child sets out on an epic quest to save her best friend. (AS, V)

WE "Big"(1988, Fantasy) Tom Hanks, Elizabeth Perkins. A wishing machine turns boy into a man with a job and girlfriend. (AL, AS)

1:45 p.m. IFC "The Cars That Ate Paris"(1974, Comedy-Drama) Terry Camilleri, John Meillon. A rural Australian shantytown engineers auto mishaps. (AL, V)

2:00 p.m. HBOF "I.Q."(1994, Romance-Comedy) Tim Robbins, Meg Ryan. Albert Einstein tests his theories of romance on his niece. (AL, AS)

2:25 p.m. FLIX "The Night They Raided Minsky's"(1968, Musical Comedy) Jason Robards, Britt Ekland. A religious dancer joins a burlesque show and invents the striptease. (AS, BN)

3:00 p.m. OXYG "Peggy Sue Got Married"(1986, Comedy-Drama) Kathleen Turner, Nicolas Cage. A woman is transported back to her last year in high school. (AL, AS)

TCM "The Children's Hour"(1961, Drama) Audrey Hepburn, Shirley MacLaine. A schoolgirl ruins her two headmistresses with a scandalous lie. (AS)

3:15 p.m. IFC "Cube"(1997, Science Fiction) Maurice Dean Wint, Nicole de Boer. Six strangers battle their way through a maze of horrors. (AL, GV)

3:30 p.m. HBO2 "Transformers"(2007, Action) Shia LaBeouf, Tyrese Gibson. Two races of robots wage war on Earth. (AL, AS, V)

4:00 p.m. AMC "Blazing Saddles"(1974, Comedy) Cleavon Little, Gene Wilder. Gucci-saddlebagged Sheriff Bart teams up with the drunken Waco Kid. (AL, AS)

4:05 p.m. FLIX "Affliction"(1997, Drama) Nick Nolte, Sissy Spacek. A small-town sheriff becomes unhinged. (AL, V)

4:15 p.m. TMC "Last Dance"(1996, Drama) Sharon Stone, Rob Morrow. A clemency worker tries to save a woman awaiting execution. (AL, AS, V)

4:20 p.m. MAX "Night at the Museum"(2006, Fantasy) Ben Stiller, Carla Gugino. Museum exhibits spring to life when the sun goes down. (AL, AS)

4:45 p.m. IFC "Cherry 2000"(1988, Science Fiction) Melanie Griffith, David Andrews. A man seeks a replacement for his damaged robotic playmate. (AL, AS, V)

5:00 p.m. HBOF "Unaccompanied Minors"(2006, Comedy) Dyllan Christopher, Tyler James Williams. A snowstorm strands youths in an airport during the holidays. (AL, AS)

OXYG "You've Got Mail"(1998, Romance-Comedy) Tom Hanks, Meg Ryan. Two bitter business rivals conduct an online love affair. (AL)

TCM "The War Wagon"(1967, Western) John Wayne, Kirk Douglas. Two gunmen join forces to rob a gold-filled armored wagon.

6:00 p.m. AMC "The Last Samurai"(2003, Adventure) Tom Cruise, Ken Watanabe. A Westerner learns the ways of the samurai in the 1870s. (AS, GV)

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

fX "The Devil Wears Prada"(2006, Comedy) Meryl Streep, Anne Hathaway. A recent college graduate lands a job at a fashion magazine. (AS)

TBS "You, Me and Dupree"(2006, Comedy) Owen Wilson, Kate Hudson. A jobless buddy moves in with two newlyweds. (AL, AS, BN)

TMC "Daddy's Little Girls"(2007, Romance) Gabrielle Union, Idris Elba. A poor mechanic and an attorney share an unexpected romance. (AL, AS, V)

TNT "Jurassic Park III"(2001, Adventure) Sam Neill, William H. Macy. A search party encounters new breeds of prehistoric terror. (V)

6:15 p.m. MAX "Big Momma's House"(2000, Comedy) Martin Lawrence, Nia Long. An FBI agent goes under cover to protect a woman and her son. (AL, AS, V)

6:30 p.m. HBOF "Dune"(1984, Science Fiction) Kyle MacLachlan, Sting. A young man leads the fight for spice. (AS, V)

7:00 p.m. BRV "Good Will Hunting" (1997, Drama) Matt Damon, Robin Williams. A young Boston man must deal with his genius and emotions. (AL, AS)

HBO2 "The Perfect Storm"(2000, Suspense) George Clooney, Mark Wahlberg. A fishing boat sails into the storm of the century. (AL)

LIFE "Profoundly Normal"(2003, Docudrama) Kirstie Alley, Delroy Lindo. A developmentally disabled couple wants to have a baby. 'TVPG'

TCM "Elephant Walk"(1954, Adventure) Elizabeth Taylor, Dana Andrews. A bride must adjust to life on her husband's tea plantation.

7:30 p.m. OXYG "You've Got Mail"(1998, Romance-Comedy) Tom Hanks, Meg Ryan. Two bitter business rivals conduct an online love affair. (AL)

7:45 p.m. FLIX "Lush Life"(1994, Drama) Jeff Goldblum, Forest Whitaker. A musician is stricken with a malignant brain tumor. (AL, AS)

8:00 p.m. MAX "Jurassic Park" (1993, Science Fiction) Sam Neill, Laura Dern. Cloned dinosaurs run amok at an island-jungle theme park. (V)

TBS "You, Me and Dupree"(2006, Comedy) Owen Wilson, Kate Hudson. A jobless buddy moves in with two newlyweds. (AL, AS, BN)

TMC "Freedom Writers"(2007, Drama) Hilary Swank, Patrick Dempsey. A teacher inspires at-risk teens to believe in themselves. (AL, AS, V)

TNT "Signs"(2002, Suspense) Mel Gibson, Joaquin Phoenix. A widower investigates huge circles in his crop fields. (V)

TVLND "The Color of Money"(1986, Drama) Paul Newman, Tom Cruise. Martin Scorsese's Oscar-winning sequel to "The Hustler." (AL, AS, BN, V)

9:00 p.m. DIS "Freaky Friday"(2003, Comedy) Jamie Lee Curtis, Lindsay Lohan. A woman and her daughter magically exchange bodies. (AL, AS)

HBOF "Edward Scissorhands"(1990, Fantasy) Johnny Depp, Winona Ryder. A man-made misfit cuts a tragic figure in suburbia. (AS, V)

TCM "The Terror of Tiny Town"(1938, Western) Billy Curtis, Yvonne Moray. Pint-size cowboys ham it up and hit saloon.

9:30 p.m. AMC "Commando"(1985, Action) Arnold Schwarzenegger, Rae Dawn Chong. A war vet battles an old foe to rescue his kidnapped child. (AL, AS, GV)

9:45 p.m. HBO2 "The Darjeeling Limited"(2007, Comedy-Drama) Owen Wilson, Adrien Brody. A man takes his brothers on a train trip across India. (AL, AS)

10:00 p.m. BRV "Good Will Hunting" (1997, Drama) Matt Damon, Robin Williams. A young Boston man must deal with his genius and emotions. (AL, AS)

IFC "Cube"(1997, Science Fiction) Maurice Dean Wint, Nicole de Boer. Six strangers battle their way through a maze of horrors. (AL, GV)

10:01 p.m. fX "Man of the House"(2005, Comedy) Tommy Lee Jones, Cedric the Entertainer. A Texas Ranger protects cheerleaders who witnessed a murder. (AL, AS, V)

10:05 p.m. TMC "Dead Birds"(2004, Horror) Henry Thomas, Patrick Fugit. Bank robbers stay in a haunted Alabama mansion in 1863. (AS, GV)

10:30 p.m. TCM "The Unholy Three"(1930, Drama) Lon Chaney, Elliott Nugent. Three carnival performers plunder their patrons' homes.

10:50 p.m. HBOF "The Learning Tree"(1969, Drama) Kyle Johnson, Alex Clarke. A black teenager learns about life in 1920s Kansas. (AS)

11:00 p.m. COM "Eddie Murphy Raw"(1987, Comedy) Eddie Murphy, Tatyana Ali. Stand-up comedian on life, women, sex. (AL)

11:05 p.m. FLIX "Maniac Cop 2"(1991, Horror) Robert Davi, Claudia Christian. A presumed-dead cop returns to the streets for vengeance. (AL, AS, BN, GV)

11:20 p.m. MAX "Excessive Force"(1993, Action) Thomas Ian Griffith, Lance Henriksen. Urban policeman uses martial arts. (AL, AS, V)

11:30 p.m. TBS "The Pelican Brief"(1993, Suspense) Julia Roberts, Denzel Washington. An inquisitive law student becomes the target of assassins. (AL, AS, V)

11:45 p.m. TCM "Freaks" (1932, Horror) Wallace Ford, Olga Baclanova. Sideshow performers take revenge on a cruel trapeze star.

12:00 a.m. TNT "Aeon Flux"(2005, Science Fiction) Charlize Theron, Marton Csokas. A rebel assassin hunts a government leader. (AS, V)

12:15 a.m. HBO2 "Black and White"(1999, Drama) Scott Caan, Robert Downey Jr.. Privileged white teens explore the black hip-hop culture. (AL, AS, SSC, V)

12:40 a.m. HBOF "Revenge of the Nerds II: Nerds in Paradise"(1987, Comedy) Robert Carradine, Curtis Armstrong. The Tri-Lambdas attend a fraternity convention in Florida. (AL, AS)

12:50 a.m. MAX "Event Horizon"(1997, Science Fiction) Laurence Fishburne, Sam Neill. A search-and-rescue team tracks down a ghostly spaceship. (AL, BN, GV)

1:00 a.m. LMN "Hit and Run"(1999, Suspense) Margaret Colin, Lisa Vidal. A woman hides the fact that she hit a child with her car. 'TVPG' (AL, AS)

TCM "Movie Crazy"(1932, Comedy) Harold Lloyd, Constance Cummings. Clumsy Kansas farm boy goes to Hollywood. (AS)

1:30 a.m. AMC "Puppet Master"(1989, Horror) Paul Le Mat, Irene Miracle. Psychics are attacked by a malicious army of little people. (AL, AS, BN, V)

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

2:00 a.m. HBO2 "Wonderland"(1999, Drama) Shirley Henderson, Gina McKee. Members of a London family cope with personal crises. (AL, SSC)

TNT "Blade II"(2002, Horror) Wesley Snipes, Kris Kristofferson. A vampire hunter unites with his prey against a new threat. (AL, AS, GV)

2:07 a.m. KGMB "Who Am I?"(1998, Action) Jackie Chan, Michelle Ferre. An amnesiac U.S. commando seeks his identity. (AL, V)

2:10 a.m. HBOF "Revenge of the Nerds III: The Next Generation"(1992, Comedy) Robert Carradine, Ted McGinley. Adams College faces a threat from a nerd-hating alumnus. 'TV14'

2:15 a.m. FLIX "The Passion of Ayn Rand"(1999, Drama) Helen Mirren, Eric Stoltz. Married writer Ayn Rand has an affair with a student. 'TVMA' (AL, MV, N, SSC)

2:30 a.m. MAX "Evening"(2007, Drama) Claire Danes, Toni Collette. A dying woman remembers the great love of her life. (AL, AS, MV)

TCM "The Milky Way"(1936, Comedy) Harold Lloyd, Adolphe Menjou. A milquetoast accidentally knocks out a boxing champ.

3:00 a.m. DIS "Buffalo Dreams"(2005, Drama) Reiley McClendon, Simon R. Baker. Navajo and Caucasian youths must bridge a cultural gap. 'TVG'

IFC "Gate of Hell" (1953, Drama) Machiko Kyo, Kazuo Hasegawa. A samurai desires a married lady in 12th-century Japan.

3:15 a.m. TMC "Godsend"(2004, Suspense) Greg Kinnear, Rebecca Romijn-Stamos. A scientist clones a couple's dead son. (AS, V)

3:30 a.m. AMC "Drums Across the River"(1954, Western) Audie Murphy, Walter Brennan. A young man joins a group scouring the plains for gold.

4:00 a.m. FLIX "James and the Giant Peach" (1996, Fantasy) Voices of Paul Terry, Joanna Lumley. Animated. Orphan and friendly bugs sail on giant peach.

HBO2 "Anywhere but Here"(1999, Comedy-Drama) Susan Sarandon, Natalie Portman. A flighty mother uproots her daughter and heads West. (AS)

4:30 a.m. MAX "August Rush"(2007, Drama) Freddie Highmore, Keri Russell. A boy uses his musical talent to find his parents. (AL, AS, MV)

4:35 a.m. IFC "Shattered Glass"(2003, Drama) Hayden Christensen, Peter Sarsgaard. Journalist Stephen Glass fabricates stories. (AL, AS)

5:00 a.m. TCM "The Big Clock"(1948, Crime Drama) Ray Milland, Charles Laughton. Crime-mag publisher kills mistress, has editor lead manhunt.

5:15 a.m. AMC "Kansas Raiders"(1950, Western) Audie Murphy, Brian Donlevy. Jesse James and his cohorts join Quantrill's raiders.

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

5:20 a.m. FLIX "Billy Elliot"(2000, Drama) Julie Walters, Jamie Bell. A British miner's son takes dancing lessons in secret. (AL)