Your TV Guide to the Week - Dec 17th, 2021

Jingle All the Way

Length: 1hr 29min
Mood: Comedy, Drama, Adventure
Director: Brian Levant
Starring: Arnold Schwarzenegger, Sinbad, Phil Hartman

Howard Langston has promised his son Jamie that he will get anything he wants for Christmas. Unfortunately for Howard, Jamie wants an immensely popular Turbo Man action figure. Howard forgets to get it, and since it's Christmas Eve, it's sold out everywhere. Since Howard knows he has let Jamie down in the past, he goes on a quest to track down a "Turbo Man" action figure, and will stop at nothing to get Jamie the gift that he wants.

The House Bunny

Length: 1hr 37min
Mood: Comedy, Romance
Director: Fred Wolf
Starring: Anna Faris, Colin Hanks, Emma Stone

After Playboy bunny Shelley is kicked out of the playboy mansion, she finds a job as the house mother for a sorority full of socially awkward girls. But the girls are in danger of losing their house due to lack of members. They have but a few months to find 30 pledges, or a sorority of mean girls will take over their place. Shelley figures that girls will pledge a house that boys find interesting, so she sets out to make the Zetas alluring and host great parties.

Romy and Michele's High School Reunion

Length: 1hr 32min
Mood: Comedy
Director: David Mirkin
Starring: Mira Sorvino, Lisa Kudrow, Janeane Garofalo

Romy and Michele have been through it all, including being tortured by the popular crowd when in high school. When they receive word of a 10 year reunion, they come to realize their lives aren't as impressive as they'd like them to be. Instead of staying home they go to the reunion with business outfits, cell phones, and one heck of a bogus success story.

50/50

Length: 1hr 40mins
Mood: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Director: Jonathan Levine
Starring: Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Seth Rogen, Anna Kendrick

Adam is a 27 year old writer of radio programs and is diagnosed with a rare form of spinal cancer. With the help of his best friend, his mother, and a young therapist at the cancer center, Adam learns what and who the most important things in his life are.

Paper Towns

Length: 1hr 49min
Mood: Adventure, Comedy, Drama
Director: Jake Schreier
Starring: Nat Wolff, Cara Delevingne, Halston Sage

When Margo Roth Spiegalmen moved into Jefferson park Quinten Jacobson was in love. They grew up as friends but their friendship drifted apart. Years later she crawls back into his window in the middle of the night to get him to help her to do 9 things of revenge against her cheating boyfriend. The next day it seems Margo has disappeared she left clues for him Quinten and his friends set off to find her before senior prom.

300: Rise of an Empire

Length: 1hr 42min
Mood: Action, Drama
Director: Noam Murro
Starring: Sullivan Stapleton, Eva Green, Lena Headey

After its victory over Leonidas' 300, the Persian Army under the command of Xerxes marches towards the major Greek city-states. The Democratic city of Athens, first on the path of Xerxes' army, bases its strength on its fleet, led by admiral Themistocles. Themistocles is forced to an unwilling alliance with the traditional rival of Athens, oligarchic Sparta whose might lies with its superior infantry troops. But Xerxes still reigns supreme in numbers over sea and land.

Behind Enemy Lines

Length: 1hr 46min
Mood: Action, Drama, Thriller
Director: John Moore
Starring: Owen Wilson, Gene Hackman, Joaquim de Almeida

A disillusioned pilot shot down over war-torn Bosnia is ensnared in the conflict in war-torn Bosnia. In the crosshairs of the enemy and an assassin, the spoiled pilot runs for his life as his commanding officer risks all to save him.

Brickleberry

Length: 22mins
Mood: Animation, Comedy
Creators: Roger Black, Waco O'Guin

The series follows a group of park rangers as they work through their daily lives in the fictional Brickleberry National Park near Hazelhurst in the Driftless Region of Illinois.